Cy Young

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 210 lb

BornMarch 29, 1867 · Gilmore, OH, USA

MLB debutAugust 6, 1890

Final gameOctober 6, 1911

Seasons22 (1890–1911)

Cleveland Spiders 1890–1898; St. Louis Perfectos 1899; St. Louis Cardinals 1900; Boston Americans 1901–1907; Boston Red Sox 1908; Cleveland Naps 1909–1910; Boston Rustlers 1911; Cleveland Naps 1911

Percentile snapshot

1910 season — qualified pitchers

28.1

31.5

53.9

49.4

SHO

32.6

149

70.8

65.2

71.9

86.5

163.3

29.2

ERA

2.53

60.7

WHIP

1.078

83.1

K/9

3.20

FIP

2.11

89.9

FIP-

82.4

83.1

ERA+

100.9

44.9

sWAR

1.6

41.6

of 90 qualified 1910 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

47.1

0.1

OPS+

45.9

ERA+

135.5

sWAR

141.2

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1890	17	65	65	6	8	2	0	0	4	0	8	1	.123	.123	.154	.277	-5.6	-19.5	.130	1.1
1891	55	185	174	23	29	5	2	1	18	11	30	2	.167	.216	.236	.452	41.6	31.4	.221	6.0
1892	53	204	196	14	31	5	0	1	15	7	35	3	.158	.191	.199	.390	28.3	17.8	.192	10.1
1893	53	191	187	23	44	4	0	1	27	4	15	2	.235	.251	.273	.524	45.8	39.1	.251	8.5
1894	52	188	186	24	40	8	4	2	26	2	20	4	.215	.223	.333	.557	37.7	32.6	.250	7.9
1895	47	154	140	20	30	5	2	0	13	11	20	0	.214	.276	.279	.555	53.4	43.2	.270	8.2
1896	53	186	180	31	52	11	3	3	28	4	15	1	.289	.304	.433	.738	88.5	93.1	.339	9.0
1897	48	159	153	14	34	4	3	0	19	2	22	4	.222	.237	.288	.525	41.3	38.0	.247	4.7
1898	47	169	154	20	39	4	1	2	13	8	12	2	.253	.299	.331	.630	79.8	80.1	.306	8.5
1899	44	156	148	22	32	5	3	1	18	2	12	1	.216	.227	.311	.537	45.6	46.6	.251	8.4
1900	41	130	124	13	22	5	1	1	13	3	7	1	.177	.209	.258	.467	31.4	28.6	.223	5.2
1901	45	163	153	20	32	2	5	0	17	6	16	1	.209	.244	.288	.531	53.6	48.5	.250	10.9
1902	45	154	148	17	34	4	1	1	12	5	20	0	.230	.255	.291	.545	51.0	51.1	.256	9.8
1903	41	146	137	21	44	6	3	1	14	4	20	2	.321	.340	.431	.771	124.8	127.6	.354	8.7
1904	43	149	148	14	33	3	3	1	10	0	25	1	.223	.223	.304	.527	54.5	63.1	.244	7.5
1905	38	126	120	8	18	2	1	2	10	4	29	0	.150	.177	.233	.411	23.8	29.2	.197	6.5
1906	40	109	104	9	16	3	2	0	5	3	21	0	.154	.178	.221	.399	15.7	23.2	.192	0.9
1907	46	128	125	10	27	1	0	1	5	1	14	3	.216	.228	.248	.476	45.8	51.7	.231	5.8
1908	36	117	115	9	26	3	0	0	8	0	14	0	.226	.226	.252	.478	44.9	53.5	.229	7.8
1909	35	114	107	6	21	2	0	0	7	1	12	1	.196	.204	.215	.419	20.3	30.8	.203	3.9
1910	21	62	55	0	8	3	1	0	5	3	6	0	.145	.203	.236	.440	31.7	36.5	.219	1.6
1911	18	46	41	1	3	0	0	0	3	0	8	0	.073	.073	.073	.146	-75.8	-60.4	.070	0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1890	17	16	9	7	0	16	0	145	57	30	39	6	147.7	3.47	1.185	2.38	3.43	96.5	102.5	1.1
1891	55	46	27	22	2	43	0	431	134	140	147	4	423.7	2.85	1.348	3.12	2.90	86.6	117.5	6.0
1892	53	49	36	12	0	48	9	363	97	118	168	8	453.0	1.93	1.062	3.34	2.76	83.9	170.4	10.1
1893	53	46	33	16	2	42	1	442	158	103	102	10	422.7	3.36	1.289	2.17	3.87	83.1	138.5	8.5
1894	52	47	26	21	1	44	2	488	179	106	108	19	408.7	3.94	1.454	2.38	4.71	88.5	135.1	7.9
1895	47	40	35	10	0	36	4	363	134	75	121	10	369.7	3.26	1.185	2.95	3.95	82.8	146.3	8.2
1896	51	46	28	15	3	42	5	477	149	62	140	7	414.3	3.24	1.301	3.04	3.36	77.2	134.7	9.0
1897	46	38	21	19	0	35	2	391	141	49	88	7	335.7	3.78	1.311	2.36	3.58	83.3	113.8	4.7
1898	46	41	25	13	0	40	1	387	106	41	101	6	377.7	2.53	1.133	2.41	2.84	78.7	142.6	8.5
1899	44	42	26	16	1	40	4	368	106	44	111	10	369.3	2.58	1.116	2.70	3.09	80.4	149.0	8.4
1900	41	35	20	18	0	32	4	337	107	36	115	7	321.3	3.00	1.161	3.22	2.76	74.7	123.3	5.2
1901	43	41	33	10	0	38	5	324	67	37	158	6	371.3	1.62	.972	3.83	2.63	73.4	220.6	10.9
1902	45	43	32	11	0	41	3	350	92	53	160	6	384.7	2.15	1.048	3.74	2.69	75.7	165.1	9.8
1903	40	35	28	9	2	34	7	294	79	37	176	6	341.7	2.08	.969	4.64	2.38	78.6	145.4	8.7
1904	43	41	26	16	1	40	10	327	83	29	200	6	380.0	1.97	.937	4.74	1.92	71.7	136.1	7.5
1905	38	33	18	19	0	31	4	248	65	30	210	3	320.7	1.82	.867	5.89	1.63	60.8	146.6	6.5
1906	39	34	13	21	2	28	0	288	102	25	140	3	287.7	3.19	1.088	4.38	1.98	72.2	86.0	0.9
1907	43	37	21	15	2	33	6	286	76	51	147	3	343.3	1.99	.982	3.85	2.11	82.8	127.7	5.8
1908	36	33	21	11	2	30	3	230	42	37	150	1	299.0	1.26	.893	4.52	1.67	68.4	193.2	7.8
1909	35	34	19	15	0	30	3	267	74	59	109	4	294.3	2.26	1.108	3.33	2.41	95.5	111.3	3.9
1910	21	20	7	10	0	14	1	149	46	27	58	0	163.3	2.53	1.078	3.20	2.11	82.4	100.9	1.6
1911	18	18	7	9	0	12	2	137	53	28	55	6	126.3	3.78	1.306	3.92	3.24	90.3	95.5	0.5

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

918

3,101

2,960

325

623

RBI

290

381

.2105

OBP

.2340

SLG

.2818

OPS

.5158

Pitching

G (P)

906

26th-most career G (P)

815

Most career GS of all time

511

Most career W of all time

315

Most career L of all time

749

Most career CG of all time

SHO

4th-most career SHO

7,356

Most career IP of all time

SO (P)

2,803

25th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,217

47th-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.627

62nd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1296

44th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.43

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	TB
1901-06-29	BOS @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	0	2	6
1903-04-28	BOS @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	0	0	6
1904-08-30	DET @ BOS Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	0	2	5
1901-05-17	BAL @ BOS Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	1	5
1905-08-05	CLE @ BOS Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	3	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	SO
1904-09-10	BOS @ ATH Gameday	12.2	7	1	1	12
1905-05-01	BOS @ NYY Gameday	11.0	7	3	0	12
1905-09-23	BAL @ BOS Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	12
1905-08-05	CLE @ BOS Gameday	9.0	10	4	0	11
1905-09-19	BOS @ MIN Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	11

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, 1937 (BBWAA)

1× Pitching Triple Crown

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