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Muddy Ruel played 19 major-league seasons (1915-1934) as a C (1,410), 1B (3). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 19 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1915 | 19 | SLA | 10 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | .000 | .263 | -19 |
| 1917 | 21 | NYA | 6 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | .118 | .328 | 3 |
| 1918 | 22 | NYA | 3 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | .333 | .833 | 158 |
| 1919 | 23 | NYA | 79 | 233 | 18 | 56 | 0 | 31 | 4 | 34 | 26 | .240 | .606 | 76 |
| 1920 | 24 | NYA | 82 | 261 | 30 | 70 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 15 | 18 | .268 | .651 | 77 |
| 1921 | 25 | BOS | 113 | 358 | 41 | 99 | 1 | 45 | 2 | 41 | 15 | .277 | .702 | 84 |
| 1922 | 26 | BOS | 116 | 361 | 34 | 92 | 0 | 28 | 4 | 41 | 26 | .255 | .634 | 71 |
| 1923 | 27 | WS1 | 136 | 449 | 63 | 142 | 0 | 54 | 4 | 55 | 21 | .316 | .778 | 111 |
| 1924 | 28 | WS1 | 149 | 501 | 50 | 142 | 0 | 57 | 7 | 62 | 20 | .283 | .702 | 87 |
| 1925 | 29 | WS1 | 127 | 393 | 55 | 122 | 0 | 54 | 4 | 63 | 16 | .310 | .754 | 98 |
| 1926 | 30 | WS1 | 117 | 368 | 42 | 110 | 1 | 53 | 7 | 61 | 14 | .299 | .790 | 114 |
| 1927 | 31 | WS1 | 131 | 428 | 61 | 132 | 1 | 52 | 9 | 63 | 18 | .308 | .779 | 109 |
| 1928 | 32 | WS1 | 108 | 350 | 31 | 90 | 0 | 55 | 12 | 44 | 14 | .257 | .662 | 80 |
| 1929 | 33 | WS1 | 69 | 188 | 16 | 46 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 31 | 7 | .245 | .639 | 71 |
| 1930 | 34 | WS1 | 66 | 198 | 18 | 50 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 24 | 13 | .253 | .650 | 71 |
| 1931 | 35 | BOS|DET | 47 | 133 | 7 | 31 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 14 | 7 | .233 | .584 | 59 |
| 1932 | 36 | DET | 51 | 136 | 10 | 32 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 17 | 6 | .235 | .614 | 65 |
| 1933 | 37 | SLA | 36 | 63 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 24 | 4 | .190 | .636 | 78 |
| 1934 | 38 | CHA | 22 | 57 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 5 | .211 | .571 | 54 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1915 | C | 6 | 0 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 1917 | C | 6 | 0 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 1918 | C | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1919 | C | 79 | 0 | 340 | 90 | 11 | 6 |
| 1920 | C | 80 | 0 | 317 | 62 | 6 | 2 |
| 1921 | C | 109 | 0 | 375 | 86 | 11 | 7 |
| 1922 | C | 112 | 0 | 359 | 96 | 10 | 17 |
| 1923 | C | 133 | 0 | 528 | 146 | 14 | 14 |
| 1924 | C | 147 | 0 | 612 | 112 | 15 | 23 |
| 1925 | C | 126 | 0 | 491 | 103 | 11 | 18 |
| 1925 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1926 | C | 117 | 0 | 452 | 81 | 6 | 13 |
| 1927 | C | 128 | 0 | 495 | 100 | 7 | 8 |
| 1928 | C | 101 | 0 | 397 | 73 | 5 | 5 |
| 1928 | 1B | 2 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 1929 | C | 62 | 0 | 247 | 52 | 3 | 6 |
| 1930 | C | 60 | 0 | 243 | 32 | 4 | 5 |
| 1931 | C | 44 | 0 | 143 | 38 | 8 | 4 |
| 1932 | C | 49 | 0 | 150 | 25 | 2 | 3 |
| 1933 | C | 28 | 0 | 72 | 21 | 0 | 3 |
| 1934 | C | 21 | 0 | 75 | 8 | 2 | 1 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
Muddy Ruel won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1925 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1925 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1926 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1927 (AL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (3 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1927, 1924, 1923.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 12 | 7 / 64 | 0 |
| 1924 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 11 | 7 / 64 | 0 |
| 1927 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 7 | 15 / 64 | 0 |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.