Ed Young
Chicago American Giants 1936; Chicago American Giants 1938–1943; Chicago American Giants 1946–1947; Homestead Grays 1947
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .375 | .167 | .542 | 83.6 | 53.7 | .306 | 0.0 |
| 1938 | 26 | 99 | 90 | 17 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .278 | .330 | .389 | .719 | 104.1 | 106.5 | .338 | 0.3 |
| 1939 | 34 | 142 | 122 | 20 | 34 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 16 | 0 | 10 | 1 | .279 | .373 | .418 | .791 | 127.4 | 129.8 | .376 | 0.7 |
| 1940 | 18 | 73 | 65 | 10 | 21 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .323 | .397 | .431 | .828 | 141.0 | 149.8 | .405 | 0.5 |
| 1941 | 18 | 73 | 68 | 11 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .324 | .370 | .471 | .840 | 140.2 | 148.7 | .397 | 0.5 |
| 1942 | 6 | 21 | 20 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .350 | .381 | .400 | .781 | 128.4 | 132.6 | .368 | 0.2 |
| 1943 | 28 | 111 | 104 | 15 | 30 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .288 | .327 | .413 | .741 | 121.2 | 126.8 | .351 | 0.6 |
| 1946 | 18 | 75 | 70 | 11 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .200 | .243 | .271 | .515 | 54.5 | 51.8 | .252 | -0.3 |
| 1947 | 32 | 126 | 119 | 16 | 32 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .269 | .310 | .462 | .772 | 102.3 | 108.9 | .355 | 0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-05-18 | HOM @ NE Gameday | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
| 1941-04-13 | CAG @ HSL Gameday | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1946-05-12 | IC @ CAG Gameday | 8 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1938-07-28 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1947-05-11 | HOM @ BEG Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-05-15 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-15 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-21 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-22 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-22 | MEM @ CAG 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.