Mel Ott

1926–1947 · 22 seasons · Bats left, throws right · Born 1909

Hall of Fame 1951

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1926	New York Giants	NL	35	61	60	7	23	2	0	0	4	1	9	1	.383	.393	.417	.810	0.3
1927	New York Giants	NL	82	180	163	23	46	7	3	1	19	13	9	2	.282	.335	.380	.716	0.0
1928	New York Giants	NL	124	499	435	69	140	26	4	18	77	52	36	3	.322	.397	.524	.921	3.8
1929	New York Giants	NL	150	674	545	138	179	37	2	42	151	113	38	6	.328	.449	.635	1.084	8.6
1930	New York Giants	NL	148	646	521	122	182	34	5	25	119	103	35	9	.349	.458	.578	1.036	7.2
1931	New York Giants	NL	138	580	497	104	145	23	8	29	115	80	44	10	.292	.392	.545	.937	6.4
1932	New York Giants	NL	154	673	566	119	180	30	8	38	123	100	39	6	.318	.424	.601	1.025	8.6
1933	New York Giants	NL	152	661	580	98	164	36	1	23	103	75	48	1	.283	.367	.467	.834	3.8
1934	New York Giants	NL	153	671	582	119	190	29	10	35	135	85	43	0	.326	.415	.591	1.006	6.9
1935	New York Giants	NL	152	683	593	113	191	33	6	31	114	82	58	7	.322	.407	.555	.962	6.6
1936	New York Giants	NL	150	660	534	120	175	28	6	33	135	111	41	6	.328	.448	.588	1.036	6.3
1937	New York Giants	NL	151	654	545	99	160	28	2	31	95	102	69	7	.294	.408	.523	.931	5.1
1938	New York Giants	NL	150	652	527	116	164	23	6	36	116	118	47	2	.311	.442	.583	1.024	8.1
1939	New York Giants	NL	125	508	396	85	122	23	2	27	80	100	50	2	.308	.449	.581	1.030	5.6
1940	New York Giants	NL	151	647	536	89	155	27	3	19	79	100	50	6	.289	.407	.457	.864	4.6
1941	New York Giants	NL	148	634	525	89	150	29	0	27	90	100	68	5	.286	.403	.495	.898	5.1
1942	New York Giants	NL	152	664	549	118	162	21	0	30	93	109	61	6	.295	.415	.497	.912	6.9
1943	New York Giants	NL	125	482	380	65	89	12	2	18	47	95	48	7	.234	.391	.418	.810	3.8
1944	New York Giants	NL	120	494	399	91	115	16	4	26	82	90	47	2	.288	.423	.544	.967	6.1
1945	New York Giants	NL	135	532	451	73	139	23	0	21	79	71	41	1	.308	.411	.499	.910	5.2
1946	New York Giants	NL	31	78	68	2	5	1	0	1	4	8	15	0	.074	.171	.132	.303	-1.1
1947	New York Giants	NL	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1
Career	22 seasons		2730	11337	9456	1859	2876	488	72	511	1860	1708	896	89	.304	.414	.533	.947	107.9

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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Not every award existed yet. This database has Rookie of the Year from 1947, Cy Young Award from 1956, Gold Glove from 1957, Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

— means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: NL (National League).

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