Edd Roush

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornMay 8, 1893 · Oakland City, IN, USA

MLB debutAugust 20, 1913

Final gameSeptember 27, 1931

Seasons18 (1913–1931)

Chicago White Sox 1913; Indianapolis Hoosiers 1914; Newark Pepper 1915; Cincinnati Reds 1916; New York Giants 1916; Cincinnati Reds 1917–1926; New York Giants 1927–1929; Cincinnati Reds 1931

Percentile snapshot

1929 season — qualified batters

115

46.3

509

48.8

450

56.1

146

59.8

40.9

57.9

65.2

RBI

37.8

59.8

33.5

34.8

.324

66.5

OBP

.390

59.8

SLG

.451

54.9

OPS

.841

57.9

wRC+

110.5

54.3

OPS+

109.6

54.3

wOBA

.383

56.7

sWAR

2.5

62.8

of 165 qualified 1929 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

127.0

OPS+

128.3

88.9

sWAR

57.2

99.3

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1913	9	12	10	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.100	.100	.100	.200	-56.3	-40.8	.096	-0.2
1914	74	189	166	26	54	8	4	1	30	6	20	12	0	.325	.353	.440	.792	121.5	124.5	.370	0.8
1915	145	616	551	73	164	20	11	3	60	38	25	28	0	.298	.350	.390	.740	116.6	117.2	.354	3.6
1916	108	371	341	38	91	7	15	0	20	14	23	19	0	.267	.309	.375	.685	108.8	110.7	.323	1.7
1917	136	567	522	82	178	19	14	4	67	27	24	21	0	.341	.379	.454	.833	159.0	157.6	.392	6.2
1918	113	492	435	61	145	18	10	5	62	22	10	24	0	.333	.368	.455	.823	152.6	153.0	.390	4.8
1919	133	572	504	73	162	19	12	4	71	42	19	20	0	.321	.380	.431	.811	150.9	148.3	.384	5.7
1920	149	650	579	81	196	22	16	4	90	42	22	36	24	.339	.386	.453	.839	146.2	144.3	.392	5.9
1921	112	463	418	68	147	27	12	4	71	31	8	19	17	.352	.403	.502	.905	145.0	144.6	.411	4.4
1922	49	189	165	29	58	7	4	1	24	19	5	5	3	.352	.428	.461	.888	135.8	133.2	.413	1.6
1923	138	592	527	88	185	41	18	6	88	46	16	10	15	.351	.406	.531	.938	148.8	150.6	.425	5.8
1924	121	519	483	67	168	23	21	3	72	22	11	17	13	.348	.376	.501	.877	136.8	138.1	.396	4.3
1925	134	590	540	91	183	28	16	8	83	35	14	22	20	.339	.383	.494	.878	126.1	127.2	.394	4.1
1926	144	631	563	95	182	37	10	7	79	38	17	8	0	.323	.366	.462	.828	124.3	125.9	.379	4.1
1927	140	614	570	83	173	27	4	7	58	26	15	18	0	.304	.335	.402	.737	95.2	97.4	.340	1.9
1928	46	180	163	20	41	5	3	2	13	14	8	1	0	.252	.315	.356	.670	73.8	75.5	.313	0.1
1929	115	509	450	76	146	19	7	8	52	45	16	6	0	.324	.390	.451	.841	110.5	109.6	.383	2.5
1931	101	400	376	46	102	12	5	1	41	17	5	2	0	.271	.308	.338	.646	75.4	77.9	.299	-0.1

Career totals

1,967

288th-most career G

8,156

269th-most career PA

7,363

238th-most career AB

1,099

267th-most career R

2,376

133rd-most career H

339

349th-most career 2B

182

15th-most career 3B

RBI

981

327th-most career RBI

484

260

268

213th-most career SB

.3227

58th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3687

313th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4459

OPS

.8146

391st-highest career OPS

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
1929-06-19	SF @ PHI Gameday	6	3	5	1	0	1	3	0	9
1929-06-15	SF @ PIT Gameday	9	3	5	0	2	0	1	0	9
1926-06-08	CIN @ ATL Gameday	6	2	4	2	0	1	1	0	9
1918-08-22	PHI @ CIN Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	1	0	0	9
1924-06-17	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	3	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1913-04-11	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-12	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-13	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-14	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-15	CWS @ BAL 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1962 (Veterans)

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