Ernie Young
Oakland Athletics 1994–1997; Kansas City Royals 1998; Arizona Diamondbacks 1999; Detroit Tigers 2003; Cleveland Indians 2004
Percentile snapshot
1996 season — qualified batters
of 148 qualified 1996 batters (min 502 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 11 | 31 | 30 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .067 | .097 | .100 | .197 | -50.6 | -47.3 | .094 | -0.5 |
| 1995 | 26 | 58 | 50 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .310 | .380 | .690 | 85.9 | 82.5 | .316 | 0.0 |
| 1996 | 141 | 528 | 462 | 72 | 112 | 19 | 4 | 19 | 64 | 52 | 118 | 7 | 5 | .242 | .326 | .424 | .750 | 90.0 | 89.2 | .333 | 1.2 |
| 1997 | 71 | 200 | 175 | 22 | 39 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 19 | 57 | 1 | 3 | .223 | .303 | .349 | .652 | 72.2 | 70.9 | .297 | 0.0 |
| 1998 | 25 | 56 | 53 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1 | .189 | .232 | .302 | .534 | 31.8 | 36.4 | .239 | -0.4 |
| 1999 | 6 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .400 | .182 | .582 | 78.5 | 54.6 | .318 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | .182 | .400 | .182 | .582 | 90.3 | 65.4 | .314 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .600 | .500 | 1.100 | 211.6 | 198.3 | .504 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-05-10 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 13 |
| 1996-06-16 | ATH @ MIL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1996-05-12 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1997-07-28 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1996-06-05 | KC @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
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.