MLB / Players

Van Mungo

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornJune 8, 1911 · Pageland, SC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 7, 1931

Final gameSeptember 2, 1945

Seasons14 (1931–1945)

Brooklyn Robins 1931; Brooklyn Dodgers 1932–1941; New York Giants 1942–1943; New York Giants 1945

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified pitchers

36.9

64.3

72.6

63.1

27.4

SHO

57.1

161

61.9

51.2

27.4

101

86.9

65.5

183.0

ERA

3.20

52.4

WHIP

1.268

58.3

K/9

4.97

79.8

FIP

3.05

85.7

FIP-

78.0

89.3

ERA+

122.1

57.1

sWAR

3.7

of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

110.0

72.4

sWAR

30.4

96.6

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1931	5	12	12	1	3	0	1	0	0	2	0	.250	.250	.417	.667	68.2	77.3	.294	0.9
1932	39	86	79	3	16	2	0	2	3	20	0	.203	.232	.228	.460	19.1	24.9	.213	0.7
1933	41	90	84	2	15	1	1	4	2	12	0	.179	.198	.214	.412	8.1	19.1	.193	4.0
1934	46	126	121	10	30	5	0	10	4	26	0	.248	.272	.289	.561	49.0	52.8	.259	5.5
1935	44	92	90	9	26	3	0	19	1	10	0	.289	.297	.322	.619	63.7	67.4	.282	3.3
1936	50	128	123	11	22	2	0	11	1	26	0	.179	.185	.195	.381	-9.7	1.9	.176	5.1
1937	28	67	64	4	16	3	0	9	3	16	0	.250	.284	.297	.580	52.1	56.2	.271	3.8
1938	32	58	47	5	9	1	0	4	7	14	1	.191	.296	.213	.509	44.2	40.6	.259	1.4
1939	29	33	29	5	10	3	0	4	3	8	0	.345	.406	.448	.855	130.7	127.0	.395	1.6
1940	8	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.3	-100.0	.000	0.5
1941	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1942	9	14	14	1	3	0	0	0	0	5	0	.214	.214	.214	.429	10.1	25.7	.202	-0.8
1943	49	47	44	1	7	1	0	2	1	14	0	.159	.178	.182	.360	-16.1	2.8	.173	0.5
1945	28	78	73	4	17	3	2	9	4	10	0	.233	.282	.329	.611	62.5	67.2	.290	3.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1931	5	4	3	1	0	2	1	27	8	13	12	0	31.0	2.32	1.290	3.48	3.55	93.0	164.4	0.9
1932	39	33	13	11	2	11	1	224	110	115	107	9	223.3	4.43	1.518	4.31	4.10	107.0	86.5	0.7
1933	41	28	16	15	0	18	3	223	75	84	110	7	248.0	2.72	1.238	3.99	3.06	94.2	119.5	4.0
1934	45	38	18	16	3	22	3	300	118	104	184	15	315.3	3.37	1.281	5.25	3.56	90.3	116.9	5.5
1935	37	26	16	10	2	18	4	205	87	90	143	13	214.3	3.65	1.376	6.00	3.76	94.9	108.6	3.3
1936	45	37	18	19	3	22	2	275	116	118	238	8	311.7	3.35	1.261	6.87	3.01	74.0	121.6	5.1
1937	25	21	9	11	3	14	0	136	52	56	122	3	161.0	2.91	1.193	6.82	2.78	69.6	137.3	3.8
1938	24	18	4	11	0	6	2	133	58	72	72	11	133.3	3.92	1.538	4.86	4.39	113.5	98.8	1.4
1939	14	10	4	5	0	1	0	70	28	33	34	7	77.3	3.26	1.332	3.96	4.50	112.6	122.7	1.6
1940	7	0	1	0	1	0	0	24	6	10	9	1	22.0	2.45	1.545	3.68	3.88	97.5	162.2	0.5
1941	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	2.0	4.50	1.500	0.00	5.57	150.8	82.0	0.0
1942	9	5	1	2	0	0	0	38	24	21	27	4	36.3	5.94	1.624	6.69	3.96	119.7	55.7	-0.8
1943	45	13	3	7	2	2	2	140	67	79	83	7	154.3	3.91	1.419	4.84	3.64	105.6	88.2	0.5
1945	26	26	14	7	0	7	2	161	65	71	101	4	183.0	3.20	1.268	4.97	3.05	78.0	122.1	3.7

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

410

838

787

174

RBI

164

.2211

OBP

.2497

SLG

.2618

OPS

.5115

Pitching

G (P)

364

259

120

451st-most career W

115

392nd-most career L

123

318th-most career CG

SHO

246th-most career SHO

2,113

389th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,242

369th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

868

185th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.471

426th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3370

K/9

5.29

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	RBI	BB	TB
1945-06-07	LAD @ SF Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	2	0	4
1939-05-28	ATL @ LAD Gameday	2	2	2	2	0	1	0	4
1945-05-05	ATL @ SF Gameday	4	1	2	2	0	1	0	4
1931-09-07	ATL @ LAD Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	0	0	4
1932-06-05	PHI @ LAD Gameday	3	2	2	2	0	0	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1935-09-29	PHI @ LAD Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	0	15	0
1936-09-07	LAD @ ATL Gameday	8.0	8	4	4	4	14	0
1932-05-30	PHI @ LAD Gameday	8.0	4	3	3	7	12	0
1934-06-24	LAD @ CHC Gameday	8.0	10	5	5	1	12	2
1936-08-30	LAD @ STL Gameday	13.0	7	2	1	6	11	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.

Honors

5× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.