MLB / Players

Buck Ross

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 170 lb

BornFebruary 3, 1915 · Norwood, NC, USA

MLB debutMay 7, 1936

Final gameSeptember 10, 1945

Seasons10 (1936–1945)

Philadelphia Athletics 1936–1940; Chicago White Sox 1941; Philadelphia Athletics 1941; Chicago White Sox 1942–1945

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified pitchers

38.3

40.4

19.1

36.2

55.3

51.1

SHO

160

60.6

48.9

44.7

21.3

29.8

156.3

36.2

ERA

4.38

WHIP

1.407

36.2

K/9

2.48

4.3

FIP

4.77

19.1

FIP-

108.8

11.7

ERA+

100.2

sWAR

1.4

36.2

of 95 qualified 1940 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

86.8

2.5

sWAR

2.8

73.3

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1936	30	78	71	4	12	4	0	4	2	30	.169	.203	.225	.428	0.7	5.4	.201	0.4
1937	28	54	49	6	5	0	0	0	5	24	.102	.185	.102	.287	-28.1	-25.8	.155	0.8
1938	29	71	63	4	12	0	1	5	2	17	.190	.227	.238	.465	11.5	16.7	.219	0.9
1939	29	66	58	2	12	2	0	4	1	19	.207	.220	.241	.462	10.6	17.6	.213	-0.7
1940	24	57	53	2	7	0	1	4	2	14	.132	.164	.189	.352	-19.1	-9.0	.163	1.4
1941	21	39	33	2	7	1	0	2	2	6	.212	.257	.242	.500	30.0	34.5	.239	1.6
1942	22	41	38	2	6	3	0	3	1	10	.158	.179	.237	.416	5.7	18.3	.195	-0.8
1943	21	55	46	1	4	1	1	4	5	15	.087	.176	.174	.350	-6.4	2.8	.181	1.5
1944	20	28	26	1	2	0	0	0	0	4	.077	.077	.077	.154	-80.9	-55.8	.073	-1.3
1945	13	11	11	0	2	0	0	1	0	2	.182	.182	.182	.364	-12.4	6.8	.173	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1936	30	27	9	14	0	12	1	253	130	83	47	17	200.7	5.83	1.674	2.11	5.36	106.3	86.5	0.4
1937	28	22	5	10	0	7	1	183	80	63	37	12	147.3	4.89	1.670	2.26	5.01	107.9	94.9	0.8
1938	29	28	9	16	0	10	0	218	109	80	54	23	184.3	5.32	1.617	2.64	5.45	113.8	90.0	0.9
1939	29	28	6	14	0	6	1	216	116	95	43	17	174.0	6.00	1.787	2.22	5.55	119.4	77.4	-0.7
1940	24	19	5	10	1	10	0	160	76	60	43	15	156.3	4.38	1.407	2.48	4.77	108.8	100.2	1.4
1941	21	12	3	9	0	7	0	109	46	45	30	8	112.3	3.69	1.371	2.40	4.38	108.0	109.9	1.6
1942	22	14	5	7	1	4	2	118	63	39	37	6	113.3	5.00	1.385	2.94	3.62	102.0	70.9	-0.8
1943	21	21	11	7	0	7	1	140	53	56	41	6	149.3	3.19	1.313	2.47	3.49	106.2	102.8	1.5
1944	20	9	2	7	0	2	0	97	52	35	20	7	90.3	5.18	1.461	1.99	4.34	127.6	65.7	-1.3
1945	13	2	1	1	0	0	0	51	24	17	8	3	37.3	5.79	1.821	1.93	4.42	134.3	56.9	-0.8

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

237

500

448

RBI

141

.1540

OBP

.1936

SLG

.1987

OPS

.3923

Pitching

G (P)

237

182

SHO

1,365

SO (P)

360

BB allowed

573

ERA

4.937

WHIP

1.5513

K/9

2.37

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	TB
1938-07-15	CLE @ ATH Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	1	5
1941-08-07	CWS @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	4
1940-06-06	DET @ ATH Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	4
1943-08-12	BOS @ CWS Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4
1939-06-03	ATH @ BAL Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1937-06-26	CLE @ ATH Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	1	6	0
1940-06-01	CLE @ ATH Gameday	9.0	2	1	1	2	6	1
1943-07-23	CWS @ BOS Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	0	6	0
1941-06-21	CWS @ ATH Gameday	5.0	8	4	4	0	6	0
1936-05-07	CLE @ ATH Gameday	9.0	9	4	4	5	5	1

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.