Irv Noren

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornNovember 29, 1924 · Jamestown, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1950

Final gameOctober 1, 1960

Seasons11 (1950–1960)

Washington Senators 1950–1951; New York Yankees 1952; Washington Senators 1952; New York Yankees 1953–1956; Kansas City Athletics 1957; St. Louis Cardinals 1957–1958; Chicago Cubs 1959; St. Louis Cardinals 1959; Chicago Cubs 1960; Los Angeles Dodgers 1960

Percentile snapshot

1954 season — qualified batters

125

3.7

480

426

3.7

136

32.1

49.4

RBI

48.1

22.2

77.8

49.4

22.2

.319

88.9

OBP

.377

77.8

SLG

.481

76.5

OPS

.859

81.5

wRC+

140.6

87.7

OPS+

141.3

86.4

wOBA

.391

sWAR

3.4

65.4

of 82 qualified 1954 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

104.9

51.9

OPS+

105.9

sWAR

11.3

88.2

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
1950	138	615	542	80	160	27	10	14	98	67	77	5	2	.295	.375	.459	.834	114.2	115.4	.384	3.1
1951	129	564	509	82	142	33	5	8	86	51	35	10	7	.279	.345	.411	.755	103.5	105.1	.352	2.3
1952	105	362	321	40	76	16	3	5	23	32	37	5	2	.237	.318	.352	.670	91.5	92.7	.318	0.5
1953	109	391	345	55	92	12	6	6	46	42	39	3	3	.267	.350	.388	.738	105.0	104.4	.346	1.3
1954	125	480	426	70	136	21	6	12	66	43	38	4	6	.319	.377	.481	.859	140.6	141.3	.391	3.4
1955	132	423	371	49	94	19	1	8	59	43	33	5	2	.253	.331	.375	.706	90.7	93.4	.327	0.3
1956	29	49	37	4	8	1	0	0	6	12	7	0	0	.216	.408	.243	.651	90.6	81.0	.327	0.0
1957	98	207	190	11	45	12	1	3	26	15	25	0	1	.237	.295	.358	.653	67.7	74.8	.292	-0.4
1958	117	196	178	24	47	9	1	4	22	13	21	0	1	.264	.327	.393	.720	85.8	87.1	.322	0.0
1959	73	180	164	27	51	7	2	4	19	13	26	2	0	.311	.372	.451	.823	122.3	118.7	.370	0.9
1960	38	40	36	1	6	0	0	1	2	4	12	0	0	.167	.250	.250	.500	36.0	33.5	.240	-0.2

Career totals

1,093

3,507

3,119

443

857

157

RBI

453

335

350

.2748

OBP

.3478

SLG

.4101

OPS

.7579

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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1954-07-05	NYY @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	5	9
1950-09-23	ATH @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	9
1955-06-14	DET @ NYY Gameday	6	2	3	0	2	3	9
1957-07-14	MIN @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	3	9
1954-07-07	BOS @ NYY Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	3	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1950-06-21	MIN @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-09-17	MIN @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-09-19	MIN @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-09-20	MIN @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-09-27	MIN @ BOS 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

1× All-Star

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