Steve Mesner
Chicago Cubs 1938–1939; St. Louis Cardinals 1941; Cincinnati Reds 1943–1945
Percentile snapshot
1945 season — qualified batters
of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 477 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .400 | .250 | .650 | 96.3 | 81.0 | .335 | 0.0 |
| 1939 | 17 | 48 | 43 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .279 | .340 | .372 | .713 | 90.7 | 90.9 | .333 | 0.2 |
| 1941 | 24 | 76 | 69 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .145 | .203 | .159 | .362 | -7.7 | 0.9 | .183 | -0.7 |
| 1943 | 137 | 548 | 504 | 53 | 137 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 52 | 26 | 20 | 6 | 0 | .272 | .309 | .327 | .636 | 82.2 | 86.3 | .305 | 0.9 |
| 1944 | 121 | 454 | 414 | 31 | 100 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 47 | 34 | 20 | 1 | 0 | .242 | .301 | .309 | .610 | 74.5 | 75.8 | .291 | 0.3 |
| 1945 | 150 | 611 | 540 | 52 | 137 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 52 | 52 | 18 | 4 | 0 | .254 | .322 | .298 | .620 | 76.9 | 75.7 | .303 | 0.5 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-06-28 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1945-04-22 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1944-09-27 | CIN @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 1939-05-23 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| 1943-05-28 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-04-19 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-20 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-21 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-22 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-23 | STL @ CHC 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.