Sam Mele

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 183 lb

BornJanuary 21, 1922 · Astoria, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1947

Final gameSeptember 16, 1956

Seasons10 (1947–1956)

Boston Red Sox 1947–1949; Washington Senators 1949–1951; Chicago White Sox 1952; Washington Senators 1952; Chicago White Sox 1953; Baltimore Orioles 1954; Boston Red Sox 1954–1955; Cincinnati Redlegs 1955; Cleveland Indians 1956

Percentile snapshot

1953 season — qualified batters

140

32.1

544

21.4

481

20.2

17.9

132

17.9

53.6

76.2

RBI

60.7

54.8

38.1

78.6

.274

33.3

OBP

.353

39.3

SLG

.437

54.8

OPS

.789

48.8

wRC+

111.6

54.8

OPS+

111.9

57.1

wOBA

.363

53.6

sWAR

1.8

of 85 qualified 1953 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

94.2

30.5

OPS+

97.6

36.8

sWAR

5.5

80.5

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
1947	123	497	453	71	137	14	8	12	73	37	35	0	3	.302	.356	.448	.805	116.2	117.1	.374	2.1
1948	66	198	180	25	42	12	1	2	25	13	21	1	1	.233	.292	.344	.637	60.4	66.3	.302	-0.6
1949	96	336	310	22	73	13	3	3	32	24	48	4	1	.235	.290	.326	.616	55.8	62.4	.295	-1.1
1950	126	490	435	57	119	21	6	12	86	51	40	2	0	.274	.351	.432	.783	100.2	102.2	.362	1.1
1951	143	594	558	58	153	36	7	5	94	32	31	2	3	.274	.315	.391	.705	86.8	91.3	.326	0.4
1952	132	503	451	48	117	21	2	16	69	49	42	1	2	.259	.335	.421	.756	109.5	110.8	.351	1.6
1953	140	544	481	64	132	26	8	12	82	58	47	3	1	.274	.353	.437	.789	111.6	111.9	.363	1.8
1954	114	406	362	39	97	15	4	12	55	30	38	1	1	.268	.323	.431	.753	99.5	103.1	.343	0.7
1955	49	100	93	5	17	3	0	2	8	5	20	1	1	.183	.230	.280	.510	25.1	32.6	.234	-0.7
1956	57	128	114	17	29	7	0	4	20	12	20	0	1	.254	.320	.421	.741	92.0	94.3	.338	0.1

Career totals

1,046

3,796

3,437

406

916

168

RBI

544

311

342

.2665

OBP

.3284

SLG

.4079

OPS

.7363

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	BB	TB
1951-05-17	DET @ MIN Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	0	3	0	8
1953-07-19	NYY @ CWS Gameday	3	2	3	0	1	1	1	1	8
1952-05-31	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	2	0	8
1956-06-02	CLE @ MIN Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	4	1	7
1947-06-09	BOS @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	3	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1947-04-15	MIN @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-17	MIN @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-18	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-19	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-20	BOS @ MIN 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.