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Bob Meusel

Robert William Meusel (Long Bob)

Positions: Outfielder and Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: July 19, 1896 in San Jose, CA
High School: Manual Arts (Los Angeles, CA) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1920
Teams (by GP): Yankees/Reds 1920-1930

Final Game: September 26, 1930
Died: November 28, 1977 in Downey, CA
Buried: Rose Hill Memorial Park, Whittier, CA
Relatives: Brother of Irish Meusel
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 10, 2012, 12:14AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #462. Vic Wertz… #463. Heinie Zimmerman… #464. Harlond Clift… #465. BOB MEUSEL… #466. Monte Irvin… #467. Frank McCormick… #468. George Burns… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1920 23 NYY AL 119 494 460 75 151 40 7 11 83 4 4 20 72 .328 .359 .517 .876 126 238 2 12 O5/3
1921 24 NYY AL 149 646 598 104 190 40 16 24 135 17 6 34 88 .318 .356 .559 .915 128 334 2 12 *O
1922 25 NYY AL 121 527 473 61 151 26 11 16 84 13 8 40 58 .319 .376 .522 .898 130 247 3 11 *O MVP-15
1923 26 NYY AL 132 503 460 59 144 29 10 9 91 13 15 31 52 .313 .359 .478 .837 116 220 2 10 *O
1924 27 NYY AL 143 630 579 93 188 40 11 12 120 26 14 32 43 .325 .365 .494 .859 120 286 5 14 *O/5
1925 28 NYY AL 156 696 624 101 181 34 12 33 138 13 14 54 55 .290 .348 .542 .889 125 338 1 17 *O5 MVP-18
1926 29 NYY AL 108 474 413 73 130 22 3 12 81 16 17 37 32 .315 .373 .470 .842 120 194 1 23 *O MVP-21
1927 30 NYY AL 135 584 516 75 174 47 9 8 103 24 10 45 58 .337 .393 .510 .902 135 263 2 21 *O
1928 31 NYY AL 131 577 518 77 154 45 5 11 113 6 9 39 56 .297 .349 .467 .816 114 242 2 18 *O
1929 32 NYY AL 100 413 391 46 102 15 3 10 57 2 5 17 42 .261 .292 .391 .683 79 153 0 5 O
1930 33 CIN NL 113 484 443 62 128 30 8 10 62 9 26 63 .289 .330 .460 .790 93 204 1 14 *O
11 Seasons 1407 6028 5475 826 1693 368 95 156 1067 143 102 375 619 .309 .356 .497 .852 118 2719 21 157
162 Game Avg. 162 694 630 95 195 42 11 18 123 16 43 71 .309 .356 .497 .852 118 313 2 18
NYY (10 yrs) 1294 5544 5032 764 1565 338 87 146 1005 134 102 349 556 .311 .358 .500 .858 121 2515 20 143
CIN (1 yr) 113 484 443 62 128 30 8 10 62 9 26 63 .289 .330 .460 .790 93 204 1 14
AL (10 yrs) 1294 5544 5032 764 1565 338 87 146 1005 134 102 349 556 .311 .358 .500 .858 121 2515 20 143
NL (1 yr) 113 484 443 62 128 30 8 10 62 9 26 63 .289 .330 .460 .790 93 204 1 14

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1920 23 NYY AL 494 16 1 0 0 2 -2 16 33 3.3 31 3.1 0.2 $ O5/3
1921 24 NYY AL 646 23 3 0 0 4 -7 20 43 4.2 39 3.8 0.4 $ *O
1922 25 NYY AL 527 18 -1 0 0 1 -6 16 28 2.8 27 2.7 0.1 $ *O MVP-15
1923 26 NYY AL 503 9 -3 0 0 -2 -6 17 15 1.5 17 1.7 -0.2 $ *O
1924 27 NYY AL 630 14 1 0 0 -4 -6 19 24 2.4 28 2.7 -0.3 $ *O/5
1925 28 NYY AL 696 13 -2 0 0 1 -5 21 28 2.7 27 2.6 0.1 $ *O5 MVP-18
1926 29 NYY AL 474 12 -3 0 0 0 -5 15 19 1.9 19 1.9 0.0 $ *O MVP-21
1927 30 NYY AL 584 24 0 0 0 1 -6 18 37 3.7 36 3.5 0.2 $13,000 *O
1928 31 NYY AL 577 10 -3 0 0 2 -6 18 21 2.1 19 1.9 0.2 $13,000 *O
1929 32 NYY AL 413 -16 -2 0 0 6 -4 13 -3 -0.2 -9 -0.9 0.7 $ O
1930 33 CIN NL 484 -12 0 0 0 -4 -4 14 -6 -0.5 -2 -0.2 -0.3 $ *O
11 Seasons 6028 111 -9 0 0 7 -57 187 239 23.9 232 22.8 1.1 $26,000
NYY (10 yrs) 5544 123 -9 0 0 11 -53 173 245 24.4 234 23.0 1.4 $26,000
CIN (1 yr) 484 -12 0 0 0 -4 -4 14 -6 -0.5 -2 -0.2 -0.3 $

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1921 24 NYY AL WS NYG L 8 32 30 3 6 2 0 0 3 1 2 2 5 .200 .250 .267 .517 8 1 0 0 0 0
1922 25 NYY AL WS NYG L 5 21 20 2 6 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 3 .300 .333 .350 .683 7 0 0 0 0 0
1923 26 NYY AL WS NYG W 6 26 26 1 7 1 2 0 8 0 0 0 3 .269 .269 .462 .731 12 2 0 0 0 0
1926 29 NYY AL WS STL L 7 30 21 3 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 6 1 .238 .393 .381 .774 8 0 0 2 1 0
1927 30 NYY AL WS PIT W 4 18 17 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 7 .118 .167 .118 .284 2 0 0 0 0 0
1928 31 NYY AL WS STL W 4 17 15 5 3 1 0 1 3 2 0 2 5 .200 .294 .467 .761 7 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons (6 Series) 34 144 129 15 29 6 3 1 17 5 2 12 24 .225 .289 .341 .630 44 3 0 2 1 0
6 WS 34 144 129 15 29 6 3 1 17 5 2 12 24 .225 .289 .341 .630 44 3 0 2 1 0

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1920 NYY AL 23 OF 64 133 116 10 7 3 .947 1.97 .962 2.25
1920 NYY AL 23 3B 45 122 34 75 13 4 .893 2.42 .946 3.59
1920 NYY AL 23 1B 2 12 12 0 0 2 1.000 6.00 .990 10.80
1920 NYY AL 23 RF 43 41 37 81 71 5 5 1 .938 1.77 .958 1.91
1920 NYY AL 23 LF 26 25 21 53 46 5 2 2 .962 1.96 .962 2.30
1921 NYY AL 24 OF 147 301 253 28 20 9 .934 1.91 .960 2.33
1921 NYY AL 24 RF 137 137 132 274 229 27 18 9 .934 1.87 .958 1.96
1921 NYY AL 24 LF 12 10 10 27 24 1 2 0 .926 2.08 .958 2.38
1922 NYY AL 25 OF 121 238 202 24 12 0 .950 1.87 .964 2.31 MVP-15
1922 NYY AL 25 RF 78 78 74 142 122 12 8 0 .944 1.72 .954 1.85 MVP-15
1922 NYY AL 25 LF 43 43 43 90 79 7 4 0 .956 2.00 .969 2.40 MVP-15
1922 NYY AL 25 CF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.70 MVP-15
1923 NYY AL 26 OF 121 234 206 17 11 2 .953 1.84 .965 2.38
1923 NYY AL 26 LF 75 75 71 149 133 9 7 0 .953 1.89 .966 2.35
1923 NYY AL 26 RF 45 37 34 85 73 8 4 2 .953 1.80 .960 2.12
1923 NYY AL 26 CF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.70
1924 NYY AL 27 OF 143 283 252 17 14 4 .951 1.88 .970 2.39
1924 NYY AL 27 3B 2 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .950 3.25
1924 NYY AL 27 LF 89 87 83 168 153 7 8 1 .952 1.80 .964 2.34
1924 NYY AL 27 RF 54 54 49 104 88 11 5 3 .952 1.83 .968 2.02
1924 NYY AL 27 CF 2 2 2 4 3 0 1 0 .750 1.50 .975 2.80
1925 NYY AL 28 OF 131 262 249 9 4 6 .985 1.97 .965 2.43 MVP-18
1925 NYY AL 28 3B 27 66 22 42 2 2 .970 2.37 .947 3.21 MVP-18
1925 NYY AL 28 LF 88 88 84 181 171 8 2 1 .989 2.03 .958 2.33 MVP-18
1925 NYY AL 28 RF 44 43 41 85 78 5 2 5 .976 1.89 .966 2.08 MVP-18
1926 NYY AL 29 OF 107 224 211 4 9 1 .960 2.01 .966 2.34 MVP-21
1926 NYY AL 29 LF 68 67 67 163 154 2 7 1 .957 2.29 .965 2.30 MVP-21
1926 NYY AL 29 RF 38 38 37 62 58 2 2 0 .968 1.58 .964 2.00 MVP-21
1926 NYY AL 29 CF 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.70 MVP-21
1927 NYY AL 30 OF 131 278 249 15 14 1 .950 2.02 .964 2.35
1927 NYY AL 30 LF 83 82 77 184 164 11 9 0 .951 2.11 .967 2.38
1927 NYY AL 30 RF 48 48 47 94 85 4 5 1 .947 1.85 .955 1.97
1928 NYY AL 31 OF 131 282 259 16 7 6 .975 2.10 .973 2.36
1928 NYY AL 31 LF 86 86 83 184 171 11 2 2 .989 2.12 .974 2.30
1928 NYY AL 31 RF 45 45 43 98 88 5 5 4 .949 2.07 .973 1.98
1929 NYY AL 32 OF 96 222 206 9 7 2 .968 2.24 .966 2.42
1929 NYY AL 32 LF 56 53 52 134 126 3 5 0 .963 2.30 .964 2.39
1929 NYY AL 32 RF 40 40 39 86 78 6 2 0 .977 2.10 .963 1.97
1930 CIN NL 33 OF 112 240 223 8 9 3 .963 2.06 .968 2.40
1930 CIN NL 33 LF 70 68 66 128 119 4 5 0 .961 1.76 .968 2.01
1930 CIN NL 33 CF 39 39 36 105 99 3 3 2 .971 2.62 .971 2.78
1930 CIN NL 33 RF 3 2 2 7 5 1 1 1 .857 2.00 .966 2.40
11 Seasons OF 1304 2697 2426 157 114 37 .958 1.98 .966 2.36
11 Seasons LF 696 684 657 1461 1340 68 53 7 .964 2.02 .966 2.31
11 Seasons RF 575 563 535 1118 975 86 57 26 .949 1.85 .961 1.98
3 Seasons 3B 74 190 58 117 15 6 .921 2.36 .946 3.44
5 Seasons CF 44 42 39 109 102 3 4 2 .963 2.39 .971 2.78
1 Season 1B 2 12 12 0 0 2 1.000 6.00 .990 10.80
11 Seasons TOT 1380 2899 2496 274 129 45 .956 2.01 .965 2.43
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame
1937 BBWAA ( 0.5%)
1938 BBWAA ( 0.4%)
1945 BBWAA ( 0.4%)
1948 BBWAA ( 5.0%)
1949 BBWAA ( 2.0%)
1950 BBWAA ( 1.2%)
1952 BBWAA ( 0.4%)
1955 BBWAA ( 0.8%)
1956 BBWAA ( 0.5%)
1958 BBWAA ( 1.9%)
1960 BBWAA ( 3.7%)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1922 AL (15, 9%)
1925 AL (18, 9%)
1926 AL (21, 5%)
0.23 Career Shares (693rd)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1929 AL  0.7 (6th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1927 AL  .337 (9th)
Career  .309 (115th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1920 AL  .517 (7th)
1921 AL  .559 (6th)
1922 AL  .522 (9th)
1923 AL  .478 (9th)
1924 AL  .494 (10th)
1925 AL  .542 (9th)
1927 AL  .510 (9th)
Career  .497 (113th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1921 AL  .915 (8th)
1922 AL  .898 (9th)
Career  .852 (160th)

Games Played s c a p y
1925 AL  156 (1st)

At Bats s c a p y
1921 AL  598 (10th)
1925 AL  624 (4th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1925 AL  696 (5th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1921 AL  104 (10th)

Hits s c a p y
1921 AL  190 (9th)
1924 AL  188 (9th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1921 AL  334 (3rd)
1924 AL  286 (6th)
1925 AL  338 (2nd)
1927 AL  263 (9th)

Doubles s c a p y
1920 AL  40 (4th)
1921 AL  40 (5th)
1924 AL  40 (5th)
1927 AL  47 (5th)
1928 AL  45 (3rd)
Career  368 (227th)

Triples s c a p y
1921 AL  16 (4th)
1922 AL  11 (10th)
1924 AL  11 (6th)
1925 AL  12 (7th)
Career  95 (183rd)

Home Runs s c a p y
1920 AL  11 (7th)
1921 AL  24 (2nd)
1922 AL  16 (6th)
1924 AL  12 (6th)
1925 AL  33 (1st)
1926 AL  12 (8th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1921 AL  135 (3rd)
1923 AL  91 (9th)
1924 AL  120 (3rd)
1925 AL  138 (1st)
1927 AL  103 (7th)
1928 AL  113 (3rd)
Career  1,067 (224th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1920 AL  72 (4th)
1921 AL  88 (1st)
1922 AL  58 (6th)
1923 AL  52 (8th)
1924 AL  43 (10th)
1925 AL  55 (6th)
1927 AL  58 (4th)
1928 AL  56 (5th)
1930 NL  63 (7th)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1921 AL  17 (8th)
1924 AL  26 (2nd)
1926 AL  16 (6th)
1927 AL  24 (2nd)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1921 AL  128 (8th)
1922 AL  130 (9th)
1927 AL  135 (9th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1921 AL  118 (8th)
1925 AL  113 (5th)
1927 AL  103 (9th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1921 AL  20 (9th)
1922 AL  19 (10th)
1927 AL  26 (9th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1921 AL  1.9 (9th)
1922 AL  1.8 (10th)
1927 AL  2.5 (9th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1920 AL  58 (8th)
1921 AL  80 (2nd)
1924 AL  63 (5th)
1925 AL  79 (1st)
1927 AL  64 (6th)
1928 AL  61 (6th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1920 AL  .681 (10th)
1921 AL  .667 (8th)
1922 AL  .679 (8th)
1927 AL  .682 (10th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
Career  157 (154th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1923 AL  15 (8th)
1924 AL  14 (4th)
1925 AL  14 (5th)
1926 AL  17 (2nd)
1927 AL  10 (9th)
1928 AL  9 (9th)
Career  102 (112th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1921 AL  19.9 (3rd)
1922 AL  14.3 (2nd)
1923 AL  10.6 (7th)
1924 AL  16.4 (2nd)
1925 AL  18.7 (2nd)
1926 AL  13.7 (4th)
1927 AL  12.0 (6th)
Career  149.2 (179th)

AB per HR s c a p y
1920 AL  41.8 (6th)
1921 AL  24.9 (4th)
1922 AL  29.6 (6th)
1924 AL  48.3 (9th)
1925 AL  18.9 (2nd)
1926 AL  34.4 (6th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1925 AL  474 (2nd)

Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  68 (54th)

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  53 (45th)

Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  86 (59th)

Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  57 (41st)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1921 AL  28 (1st)
1922 AL  24 (1st)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1921 AL  20 (2nd)
1924 AL  14 (2nd)
1927 AL  14 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1928 AL  2.12 (5th)
Career  2.02 (64th)

Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1925 AL  .989 (1st)
1928 AL  .989 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1921 AL  1.87 (4th)
1922 AL  1.72 (5th)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1925 AL  .985 (2nd)

             

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 9 (252), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 107 (200), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 80 (239), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 31 (290), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  5. Dave Parker (958)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Dave Parker (951)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Dave Parker (938)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Chick Hafey (936) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Transactions

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Salaries

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Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
192730New York Yankees$13,0005/23/27 AL letter
192831New York Yankees$13,0005/23/27 AL letter
Career to date (may be incomplete)$26,000
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