MLB / Players

Ray Noble

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 210 lb

BornMarch 15, 1919 · Hatillo, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

MLB debutApril 18, 1951

Final gameSeptember 22, 1953

Seasons7 (1945–1953)

New York Cubans 1945–1948; New York Giants 1951–1953

Percentile snapshot

1948 season — qualified batters

3.2

148

134

1.1

2.2

12.9

26.9

23.7

RBI

6.5

4.3

84.9

34.4

41.9

.321

82.8

OBP

.381

64.5

SLG

.522

87.1

OPS

.903

88.2

wRC+

152.3

92.5

OPS+

160.0

93.5

wOBA

.419

90.3

sWAR

1.8

41.9

of 94 qualified 1948 batters (min 139 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.4

71.9

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
1945	17	46	43	7	7	0	2	1	4	3	0	0	.163	.217	.326	.543	51.0	51.0	.255	0.0
1946	19	52	45	5	5	2	0	1	5	4	0	0	.111	.200	.222	.422	27.5	17.8	.212	-0.2
1947	20	59	54	7	15	4	0	0	5	3	0	3	.278	.316	.352	.668	81.7	82.5	.317	0.2
1948	38	148	134	12	43	10	4	3	21	12	0	3	.321	.381	.522	.903	152.3	160.0	.419	1.8
1951	55	148	141	16	33	6	0	5	26	6	26	0	.234	.265	.383	.648	65.2	72.7	.289	0.2
1952	6	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.8	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1953	46	119	97	15	20	0	1	4	14	19	14	1	.206	.353	.351	.703	89.8	83.9	.330	0.6

Career totals

201

577

519

123

RBI

.2370

OBP

.3065

SLG

.3873

OPS

.6938

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	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1948-08-14	NYC @ BBB Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	2	5	12
1951-05-09	STL @ SF Gameday	6	3	4	0	0	2	5	10
1948-08-30	BEG @ NYC Gameday	5	1	3	3	0	0	0	6
1946-05-13	BEG @ NYC Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	1	2	6
1953-06-04	CIN @ SF Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	1	3	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1945-05-06	NYC @ NE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-05-12	NYC @ PHS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-05-13	PHS @ NYC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-05-20	NYC @ HOM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-05-20	NYC @ HOM 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.