Alex Ferguson
New York Yankees 1918; New York Yankees 1921; Boston Red Sox 1922–1925; New York Yankees 1925; Washington Senators 1925–1926; Philadelphia Phillies 1927–1928; Brooklyn Robins 1929; Philadelphia Phillies 1929
Percentile snapshot
1927 season — qualified pitchers
of 130 qualified 1927 pitchers (min 155 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -135.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 1921 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .211 | .211 | .211 | .421 | -2.0 | 7.7 | .196 | -0.5 |
| 1922 | 39 | 73 | 65 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .092 | .119 | .092 | .212 | -56.8 | -44.0 | .106 | 0.7 |
| 1923 | 34 | 71 | 62 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 1 | .097 | .138 | .113 | .251 | -44.6 | -33.8 | .128 | 1.4 |
| 1924 | 41 | 96 | 86 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 32 | 0 | 0 | .140 | .159 | .163 | .322 | -29.4 | -17.3 | .155 | 3.0 |
| 1925 | 33 | 47 | 39 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .077 | .122 | .103 | .225 | -48.0 | -42.8 | .115 | -1.6 |
| 1926 | 19 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .182 | .182 | .364 | -16.3 | -3.5 | .171 | -1.6 |
| 1927 | 31 | 85 | 70 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 34 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .160 | .100 | .260 | -38.6 | -30.9 | .137 | -0.1 |
| 1928 | 34 | 43 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .026 | .073 | .026 | .099 | -95.5 | -74.1 | .060 | -1.0 |
| 1929 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | -17.0 | 0.8 | .183 | -1.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1.7 | 0.00 | 2.400 | 5.40 | 4.56 | 162.4 | — | 0.1 |
| 1921 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 64 | 37 | 27 | 9 | 4 | 56.3 | 5.91 | 1.615 | 1.44 | 5.47 | 127.7 | 72.5 | -0.5 |
| 1922 | 39 | 27 | 9 | 16 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 201 | 95 | 62 | 44 | 5 | 198.3 | 4.31 | 1.326 | 2.00 | 3.86 | 96.3 | 92.9 | 0.7 |
| 1923 | 34 | 27 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 229 | 89 | 67 | 72 | 5 | 198.3 | 4.04 | 1.492 | 3.27 | 3.66 | 90.7 | 99.8 | 1.4 |
| 1924 | 41 | 32 | 14 | 17 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 259 | 100 | 108 | 78 | 6 | 237.7 | 3.79 | 1.544 | 2.95 | 4.24 | 99.3 | 112.6 | 3.0 |
| 1925 | 33 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 157 | 86 | 70 | 49 | 11 | 125.3 | 6.18 | 1.811 | 3.52 | 5.26 | 122.4 | 69.4 | -1.6 |
| 1926 | 19 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 41 | 18 | 16 | 4 | 47.7 | 7.74 | 1.825 | 3.02 | 4.66 | 119.5 | 50.4 | -1.6 |
| 1927 | 31 | 31 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 280 | 122 | 65 | 73 | 15 | 227.0 | 4.84 | 1.520 | 2.89 | 4.14 | 100.6 | 85.2 | -0.1 |
| 1928 | 34 | 19 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 168 | 83 | 52 | 51 | 14 | 134.7 | 5.55 | 1.634 | 3.41 | 4.66 | 109.3 | 76.8 | -1.0 |
| 1929 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 22 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 14.7 | 13.50 | 2.523 | 2.45 | 8.56 | 170.6 | 37.9 | -1.1 |
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
Pitching
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 | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924-09-17 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1924-09-07 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1923-07-04 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1925-07-16 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1922-06-16 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925-08-28 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
| 1923-06-29 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 1922-05-27 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 11.0 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| 1924-05-16 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 0 |
| 1928-07-20 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 8.0 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
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.