Babe Young

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornJuly 1, 1915 · Astoria, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 26, 1936

Final gameOctober 2, 1948

Seasons8 (1936–1948)

New York Giants 1936; New York Giants 1939–1942; New York Giants 1946; Cincinnati Reds 1947; New York Giants 1947; Cincinnati Reds 1948; St. Louis Cardinals 1948

Percentile snapshot

1941 season — qualified batters

152

89.9

649

87.8

574

87.1

80.6

152

75.5

68.3

55.4

93.5

RBI

104

93.5

72.7

38.1

8.6

36.7

.265

35.3

OBP

.346

46.8

SLG

.462

75.5

OPS

.807

wRC+

123.0

69.1

OPS+

124.0

69.1

wOBA

.373

61.2

sWAR

2.6

64.7

of 140 qualified 1941 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.9

86.9

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1936	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.0	-100.0	.000	0.0
1939	22	84	75	8	23	4	0	3	14	5	6	0	.307	.373	.480	.853	127.9	127.3	.389	0.4
1940	149	632	556	75	159	27	4	17	101	69	28	4	.286	.367	.441	.807	122.6	120.8	.371	2.5
1941	152	649	574	90	152	28	5	25	104	66	39	1	.265	.346	.462	.807	123.0	124.0	.373	2.6
1942	101	328	287	37	80	17	1	11	59	34	22	1	.279	.365	.460	.825	142.2	140.7	.387	2.7
1946	104	321	291	30	81	11	0	7	33	30	21	3	.278	.346	.388	.734	106.6	106.6	.349	0.9
1947	109	417	378	55	104	22	3	14	79	35	27	0	.275	.340	.460	.800	108.9	111.5	.362	1.1
1948	90	277	241	25	57	12	4	2	25	35	18	0	.237	.333	.344	.678	85.1	83.3	.322	-0.2

Career totals

728

2,709

2,403

320

656

121

RBI

415

274

161

.2730

OBP

.3515

SLG

.4361

OPS

.7876

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	HR	RBI	TB
1940-08-11	SF @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	2	5	9
1940-08-02	STL @ SF Gameday	4	2	3	2	3	9
1941-09-09	SF @ PIT Gameday	5	2	3	2	3	9
1947-06-18	ATL @ CIN Gameday	5	2	2	2	6	8
1939-09-23	ATL @ SF Gameday	3	2	2	2	4	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1936-09-26	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-09-27	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-20	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-23	ATL @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-24	ATL @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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.