Ray Mueller

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 175 lb

BornMarch 8, 1912 · Pittsburg, KS, USA

MLB debutMay 11, 1935

Final gameSeptember 9, 1951

Seasons14 (1935–1951)

Boston Braves 1935; Boston Bees 1936–1938; Pittsburgh Pirates 1939–1940; Cincinnati Reds 1943–1944; Cincinnati Reds 1946–1949; New York Giants 1949–1950; Pittsburgh Pirates 1950; Boston Braves 1951

Percentile snapshot

1944 season — qualified batters

155

93.6

618

67.3

555

70.9

159

72.7

53.6

37.3

70.9

RBI

72.7

62.7

27.3

39.1

.286

52.7

OBP

.353

53.6

SLG

.398

53.6

OPS

.751

51.8

wRC+

116.4

58.2

OPS+

116.0

57.3

wOBA

.353

sWAR

4.6

of 111 qualified 1944 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

88.8

21.8

OPS+

91.5

25.7

sWAR

14.4

90.6

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1935	42	101	97	10	22	5	0	3	11	3	11	0	.227	.250	.371	.621	65.1	70.0	.277	0.2
1936	24	77	71	5	14	4	0	0	5	5	17	0	.197	.250	.254	.504	37.9	39.6	.240	-0.1
1937	64	210	187	21	47	9	2	2	26	18	36	1	.251	.317	.353	.670	90.1	90.2	.313	0.9
1938	83	296	274	23	65	8	6	4	35	16	28	3	.237	.282	.354	.636	79.0	82.9	.293	0.8
1939	86	204	180	14	42	8	1	2	18	14	22	0	.233	.289	.322	.611	61.2	64.7	.286	0.4
1940	4	5	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	.333	.600	.333	.933	199.1	163.9	.483	0.1
1943	141	496	427	50	111	19	4	8	52	56	42	1	.260	.347	.379	.726	114.4	112.6	.350	3.7
1944	155	618	555	54	159	24	4	10	73	53	47	4	.286	.353	.398	.751	116.4	116.0	.353	4.6
1946	114	419	378	35	96	18	4	8	48	27	37	0	.254	.309	.386	.695	95.7	100.1	.327	2.1
1947	71	211	192	17	48	11	0	6	33	16	25	1	.250	.311	.401	.712	85.1	88.4	.325	0.8
1948	14	38	34	2	7	1	0	0	2	4	3	0	.206	.289	.235	.525	45.7	44.9	.259	0.0
1949	88	303	276	24	67	6	2	6	36	18	27	2	.243	.294	.344	.638	66.6	70.3	.294	0.5
1950	71	181	167	17	43	8	0	6	24	11	16	2	.257	.307	.413	.720	79.0	83.3	.322	0.7
1951	28	79	70	8	11	2	0	1	9	7	11	0	.157	.234	.229	.462	25.7	29.0	.223	-0.3

Career totals

985

3,238

2,911

281

733

123

RBI

373

250

322

.2518

OBP

.3138

SLG

.3676

OPS

.6814

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1946-06-25	CIN @ LAD Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	5	10
1943-07-26	PHI @ CIN Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	6	9
1943-07-04	CIN @ SF Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	9
1949-08-31	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	2	9
1938-05-15	ATL @ LAD Gameday	5	1	2	1	1	3	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1935-04-16	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-04-19	LAD @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-04-19	LAD @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-04-20	LAD @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-04-21	LAD @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.