Bobby Young
St. Louis Cardinals 1948; St. Louis Browns 1951–1953; Baltimore Orioles 1954–1955; Cleveland Indians 1955–1956; Philadelphia Phillies 1958
Percentile snapshot
1954 season — qualified batters
of 82 qualified 1954 batters (min 477 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -132.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1951 | 147 | 674 | 611 | 75 | 159 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 31 | 44 | 51 | 8 | 7 | .260 | .310 | .316 | .626 | 61.7 | 65.5 | .297 | -0.7 |
| 1952 | 149 | 636 | 575 | 59 | 142 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 39 | 56 | 48 | 3 | 3 | .247 | .314 | .325 | .639 | 71.4 | 74.2 | .305 | 0.2 |
| 1953 | 148 | 593 | 537 | 48 | 137 | 22 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 41 | 40 | 2 | 1 | .255 | .309 | .326 | .635 | 67.6 | 70.8 | .299 | -0.2 |
| 1954 | 130 | 499 | 432 | 43 | 106 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 54 | 42 | 4 | 4 | .245 | .329 | .331 | .660 | 83.8 | 83.2 | .316 | 0.9 |
| 1955 | 77 | 248 | 231 | 12 | 51 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 12 | 25 | 1 | 4 | .221 | .259 | .260 | .519 | 38.4 | 43.3 | .246 | -0.9 |
| 1956 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1958 | 32 | 68 | 60 | 7 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .233 | .246 | .333 | .579 | 45.7 | 52.5 | .258 | -0.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-08-25 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1954-05-23 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1953-05-03 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1954-06-04 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1951-04-28 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-04-20 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-21 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-22 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-23 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-24 | STL @ CHC 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.