Don Ross
Detroit Tigers 1938; Brooklyn Dodgers 1940; Detroit Tigers 1942–1944; Cleveland Indians 1945; Detroit Tigers 1945; Cleveland Indians 1946
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 77 | 297 | 265 | 22 | 69 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 29 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .260 | .333 | .306 | .639 | 58.2 | 57.2 | .307 | -0.5 |
| 1940 | 10 | 41 | 38 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .289 | .341 | .421 | .763 | 105.0 | 105.7 | .349 | 0.2 |
| 1942 | 87 | 265 | 226 | 29 | 62 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 30 | 36 | 16 | 2 | 1 | .274 | .379 | .376 | .755 | 111.3 | 106.6 | .366 | 1.1 |
| 1943 | 89 | 270 | 247 | 19 | 66 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 0 | .267 | .325 | .320 | .644 | 82.5 | 84.2 | .313 | 0.2 |
| 1944 | 66 | 185 | 167 | 14 | 35 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 1 | .210 | .275 | .275 | .550 | 50.6 | 54.8 | .268 | -0.7 |
| 1945 | 114 | 451 | 392 | 29 | 106 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 47 | 47 | 16 | 2 | 4 | .270 | .350 | .339 | .689 | 105.9 | 103.5 | .338 | 2.0 |
| 1946 | 55 | 172 | 153 | 12 | 41 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .268 | .341 | .373 | .714 | 105.1 | 104.9 | .337 | 0.7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-09-08 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1942-09-13 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1946-09-10 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 1938-06-19 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1940-09-26 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-04-19 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-20 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-21 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-22 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-23 | CLE @ DET 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.