MLB / Players

Babe Ruth

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 215 lb

BornFebruary 6, 1895 · Baltimore, MD, USA

MLB debutJuly 11, 1914

Final gameMay 30, 1935

Seasons22 (1914–1935)

Boston Red Sox 1914–1919; New York Yankees 1920–1934; Boston Braves 1935

Percentile snapshot

1933 season — qualified batters

137

59.1

575

64.4

459

89.3

138

55.7

49.7

27.5

99.3

RBI

103

92.6

114

100

0.7

14.1

.301

65.1

OBP

.442

SLG

.582

95.3

OPS

1.023

wRC+

172.5

97.3

OPS+

178.1

97.3

wOBA

.460

97.3

sWAR

6.5

of 150 qualified 1933 batters (min 471 PA)

1918 season — qualified pitchers

30.1

48.4

74.2

59.1

80.6

SHO

33.3

125

69.9

47.3

35.5

55.9

166.3

50.5

ERA

2.22

82.8

WHIP

1.046

94.6

K/9

2.16

17.2

FIP

2.68

61.3

FIP-

100.6

41.9

ERA+

120.0

77.4

sWAR

7.8

98.9

of 94 qualified 1918 pitchers (min 126 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

200.2

100

OPS+

208.6

100

ERA+

121.4

90.9

sWAR

180.3

100

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1914	5	10	10	1	2	1	0	0	2	0	4	0	0	.200	.200	.300	.500	35.5	51.1	.235	-0.1
1915	42	103	92	16	29	10	1	4	21	9	23	0	0	.315	.376	.576	.952	179.6	192.1	.448	4.7
1916	67	150	136	18	37	5	3	3	15	10	23	0	0	.272	.322	.419	.741	120.8	125.9	.356	8.8
1917	52	142	123	14	40	6	3	2	12	12	18	0	0	.325	.385	.472	.857	163.0	165.1	.412	7.5
1918	95	380	317	50	95	26	11	11	66	58	58	6	0	.300	.411	.555	.966	194.8	197.0	.461	7.8
1919	130	542	432	103	139	34	12	29	114	101	58	7	0	.322	.456	.657	1.114	214.0	220.0	.504	10.4
1920	142	615	457	158	172	36	9	54	137	150	80	14	14	.376	.533	.849	1.382	244.5	260.3	.592	12.9
1921	152	693	540	177	204	44	16	59	171	145	81	17	13	.378	.512	.846	1.359	227.9	241.4	.578	12.7
1922	110	495	406	94	128	24	8	35	99	84	80	2	5	.315	.434	.672	1.106	179.2	183.9	.486	6.2
1923	152	699	522	151	205	45	13	41	131	170	93	17	21	.393	.545	.764	1.309	234.3	243.3	.576	13.6
1924	153	681	529	143	200	39	7	46	121	142	81	9	13	.378	.513	.739	1.252	213.3	221.6	.554	11.4
1925	98	426	359	61	104	12	2	25	66	59	68	2	4	.290	.393	.543	.936	134.7	138.6	.424	2.8
1926	152	652	495	139	184	30	5	47	150	144	76	11	9	.372	.516	.737	1.253	221.4	228.8	.551	11.4
1927	151	691	540	158	192	29	8	60	164	137	89	7	6	.356	.486	.772	1.258	215.2	229.1	.545	11.7
1928	154	684	536	163	173	29	8	54	142	137	87	4	5	.323	.463	.709	1.172	200.8	210.1	.509	10.4
1929	135	587	499	121	172	26	6	46	154	72	60	5	3	.345	.430	.697	1.128	185.4	193.9	.489	7.6
1930	145	676	518	150	186	28	9	49	153	136	61	10	10	.359	.493	.732	1.225	199.6	212.0	.524	10.3
1931	145	663	534	149	199	31	3	46	163	128	51	5	4	.373	.495	.700	1.195	208.5	219.4	.525	10.6
1932	133	589	457	120	156	13	5	41	137	130	62	2	2	.341	.489	.661	1.150	189.9	195.8	.505	8.0
1933	137	575	459	97	138	21	3	34	103	114	90	4	5	.301	.442	.582	1.023	172.5	178.1	.460	6.5
1934	125	471	365	78	105	17	4	22	84	104	63	1	3	.288	.448	.537	.985	160.8	162.8	.451	4.7
1935	28	92	72	13	13	0	0	6	12	20	24	0	0	.181	.359	.431	.789	121.7	118.0	.365	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1914	4	3	2	1	0	1	0	21	10	7	3	1	23.0	3.91	1.217	1.17	3.56	132.1	68.9	-0.1
1915	32	28	18	8	0	16	1	166	59	85	112	3	217.7	2.44	1.153	4.63	2.78	99.8	114.2	4.7
1916	44	41	23	12	1	23	9	230	63	118	170	0	323.7	1.75	1.075	4.73	2.44	89.1	156.5	8.8
1917	41	38	24	13	2	35	6	244	73	108	128	2	326.3	2.01	1.079	3.53	2.53	97.9	128.3	7.5
1918	20	19	13	7	0	18	1	125	41	49	40	1	166.3	2.22	1.046	2.16	2.68	100.6	120.0	7.8
1919	17	15	9	5	1	12	0	148	44	58	30	2	133.3	2.97	1.545	2.03	3.63	119.7	101.9	10.4
1920	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	2	2	0	0	4.0	4.50	1.250	0.00	4.40	115.1	85.0	12.9
1921	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	14	9	9	2	1	9.0	9.00	2.556	2.00	7.21	168.4	47.6	12.7
1930	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	11	3	2	3	0	9.0	3.00	1.444	3.00	3.45	77.2	149.0	10.3
1933	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	12	5	3	0	0	9.0	5.00	1.667	0.00	4.03	100.6	80.1	6.5

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

2,503

59th-most career G

10,616

50th-most career PA

8,398

116th-most career AB

2,174

4th-most career R

2,873

46th-most career H

506

60th-most career 2B

136

71st-most career 3B

714

3rd-most career HR

RBI

2,217

3rd-most career RBI

2,062

3rd-most career BB

1,330

153rd-most career SO

123

.3421

15th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4740

2nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.6898

2nd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

1.1638

Highest career OPS of all time

Pitching

G (P)

163

148

107

372nd-most career CG

SHO

317th-most career SHO

1,221

SO (P)

488

BB allowed

441

ERA

2.277

17th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1586

91st-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.60

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1927-07-09	NYY @ DET Gameday	6	3	5	2	2	7	0	13
1935-05-25	ATL @ PIT Gameday	4	3	4	0	3	6	0	13
1922-09-11	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5	3	4	2	2	5	0	12
1930-05-21	NYY @ ATH Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	6	0	12
1926-10-06	NYY @ STL Gameday	3	4	3	0	3	4	2	12

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1915-06-17	BAL @ BOS Gameday	7.1	8	7	7	3	11
1916-06-27	ATH @ BOS Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	4	10
1917-07-11	BOS @ DET Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	4	8
1915-06-21	BOS @ MIN Gameday	9.0	6	3	2	4	7
1917-04-16	BOS @ ATH Gameday	9.0	8	1	0	4	7

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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1936 (BBWAA)

1× Most Valuable Player2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.