Mel Ott played 22 seasons (1926–1947) for SF. Career regular-season line: 2,876 hits, 511 home runs and a .304 average. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 1929. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1951. Honors: 12× All-Star Selections.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
+ 2 more career boards inside the all-time top 100.
On the MLB Career Dominance board — top-25 in more than one all-time category at once.
Cross-sport prominence: 99.8th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
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MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 KMLB Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsMLB Career Arc TypesMLB Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesMLB Clutch Delta — Who Rises in OctoberMLB Compilers vs Comets — Career Shape
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Bio, rosters, and year-by-year/career stat splits come directly from MLB's own official public StatsAPI.
Fan Rating
Rate Mel Ott — All-Time
19 seasons · peak 18.1 in 1929
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
78.9 career wins over 19 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1929 · +6.9 wins
Latest season · 1945 · +3.2 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Mel Ott led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Early Bloomer
Peaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot. Peak 1929, 19 rated seasons.
Where Mel Ott ranks on StatVault's all-time league-relative boards (park-unadjusted; 100 = league average that season).
The season chip above measures Mel Ott's single best year. This measures the whole career: every rated season's standing against its own era's peers, summed. A season at the era median adds nothing and a below-median season subtracts — so this number is time spent above your era, not time served.
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Gave the San Francisco Giants an entire corpus-attributed career — 22 seasons (1926–1947), one crest. The rarest loyalty in the sport.