MLB / Players

Ray Sanders

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornDecember 4, 1916 · Bonne Terre, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1942

Final gameSeptember 21, 1949

Seasons7 (1942–1949)

St. Louis Cardinals 1942–1945; Boston Braves 1946; Boston Braves 1948–1949

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified batters

143

68.5

631

537

71.2

85.6

148

68.5

29.7

71.2

RBI

92.8

16.2

34.2

35.1

.276

44.1

OBP

.375

73.9

SLG

.385

46.8

OPS

.760

60.4

wRC+

115.7

58.6

OPS+

112.2

55.9

wOBA

.366

61.3

sWAR

2.0

57.7

of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.8

86.7

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
1942	95	328	282	37	71	17	2	5	39	42	31	2	.252	.351	.379	.730	113.2	109.9	.351	0.9
1943	144	571	478	69	134	21	5	11	73	77	33	1	.280	.381	.414	.796	134.4	129.4	.382	2.8
1944	154	683	601	87	177	34	9	12	102	71	50	2	.295	.371	.441	.812	131.2	129.9	.378	3.4
1945	143	631	537	85	148	29	3	8	78	83	55	3	.276	.375	.385	.760	115.7	112.2	.366	2.0
1946	80	314	259	43	63	12	0	6	35	50	38	0	.243	.368	.359	.727	112.2	105.9	.356	0.8
1948	5	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	.250	.400	.250	.650	96.7	81.7	.334	0.0
1949	9	25	21	0	3	1	0	0	0	4	9	0	.143	.280	.190	.470	40.0	32.4	.245	-0.2

Career totals

630

2,557

2,182

321

597

114

RBI

329

328

216

.2736

OBP

.3703

SLG

.4010

OPS

.7713

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1946-05-12	SF @ ATL Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	2	0	8
1943-08-15	STL @ LAD Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	3	0	8
1945-05-25	LAD @ STL Gameday	5	1	3	1	1	4	0	7
1944-06-24	STL @ PIT Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	3	2	7
1944-08-20	ATL @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	3	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1942-04-14	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-15	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-16	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-17	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-18	STL @ PIT 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.