MLB / Players

Ray Powell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 160 lb

BornNovember 20, 1888 · Siloam Springs, AR, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1913

Final gameSeptember 28, 1924

Seasons9 (1913–1924)

Detroit Tigers 1913; Boston Braves 1917–1924

Percentile snapshot

1922 season — qualified batters

142

64.2

619

71.1

550

71.1

68.6

163

70.4

57.9

80.5

61.6

RBI

33.3

86.8

2.5

13.8

10.1

.296

49.1

OBP

.369

59.7

SLG

.409

51.6

OPS

.778

wRC+

105.0

56.6

OPS+

103.7

54.1

wOBA

.362

55.3

sWAR

2.7

66.7

of 160 qualified 1922 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

101.8

OPS+

100.4

42.6

sWAR

13.5

90.1

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1913	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1917	88	388	357	42	97	10	4	4	30	24	54	12	0	.272	.318	.356	.673	110.8	112.0	.321	2.0
1918	53	222	188	31	40	7	5	0	20	29	30	2	0	.213	.321	.303	.624	98.6	93.2	.313	0.8
1919	123	526	470	51	111	12	12	2	33	41	79	16	0	.236	.303	.326	.628	91.1	90.9	.303	0.5
1920	147	666	609	69	137	12	12	6	29	44	83	10	18	.225	.282	.314	.595	71.2	73.5	.284	0.2
1921	149	699	624	114	191	25	18	12	74	58	85	6	17	.306	.369	.462	.830	123.2	123.0	.378	4.7
1922	142	619	550	82	163	22	11	6	37	59	66	3	12	.296	.369	.409	.778	105.0	103.7	.362	2.7
1923	97	395	338	57	102	20	4	4	38	45	36	1	6	.302	.385	.420	.806	117.2	114.8	.376	2.3
1924	74	213	188	21	49	9	1	1	15	21	28	1	3	.261	.338	.335	.673	86.4	83.8	.319	0.4

Career totals

875

3,728

3,324

467

890

117

437th-most career 3B

RBI

276

321

461

.2677

OBP

.3357

SLG

.3748

OPS

.7105

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
1921-09-27	LAD @ ATL Gameday	5	2	4	0	3	0	4	10
1923-04-30	ATL @ PHI Gameday	6	4	5	1	0	1	4	9
1921-06-17	ATL @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	1	8
1919-07-19	PIT @ ATL Gameday	3	1	3	0	1	1	2	8
1922-09-11	ATL @ SF Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	2	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1913-04-10	DET @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-11	DET @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-14	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-15	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-16	DET @ CLE 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.