Gerald Young
Houston Astros 1987–1992; Colorado Rockies 1993; St. Louis Cardinals 1994
Percentile snapshot
1989 season — qualified batters
of 126 qualified 1989 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 71 | 303 | 274 | 44 | 88 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 26 | 27 | 26 | 9 | .321 | .380 | .380 | .759 | 112.3 | 106.8 | .351 | 1.6 |
| 1988 | 149 | 655 | 576 | 79 | 148 | 21 | 9 | 0 | 37 | 66 | 66 | 65 | 27 | .257 | .334 | .325 | .658 | 99.6 | 94.1 | .315 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 146 | 620 | 533 | 71 | 124 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 74 | 60 | 34 | 25 | .233 | .326 | .276 | .602 | 82.7 | 77.0 | .293 | 1.0 |
| 1990 | 57 | 179 | 154 | 15 | 27 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 23 | 6 | 3 | .175 | .269 | .234 | .502 | 45.8 | 41.7 | .248 | -0.5 |
| 1991 | 108 | 169 | 142 | 26 | 31 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 24 | 17 | 16 | 5 | .218 | .327 | .275 | .602 | 84.0 | 75.7 | .296 | 0.3 |
| 1992 | 74 | 90 | 76 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 2 | .184 | .279 | .224 | .503 | 50.5 | 46.8 | .252 | -0.5 |
| 1993 | 19 | 23 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .053 | .217 | .053 | .270 | -23.5 | -27.2 | .169 | -0.3 |
| 1994 | 16 | 44 | 41 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 | .317 | .364 | .488 | .851 | 125.5 | 122.1 | .378 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990-04-28 | NYM @ HOU Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1994-07-16 | STL @ COL Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1991-06-18 | HOU @ WSH Gameday | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1988-06-19 | HOU @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 1988-05-13 | CHC @ HOU Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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.