Irv Young
Boston Beaneaters 1905–1906; Boston Doves 1907–1908; Pittsburgh Pirates 1908; Chicago White Sox 1910–1911
Percentile snapshot
1908 season — qualified pitchers
of 82 qualified 1908 pitchers (min 156 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905 | 43 | 138 | 136 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 46 | 0 | 0 | .103 | .109 | .132 | .242 | -35.0 | -28.2 | .115 | 3.3 |
| 1906 | 43 | 133 | 125 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 53 | 0 | 0 | .096 | .137 | .104 | .241 | -32.6 | -24.7 | .128 | 1.4 |
| 1907 | 40 | 82 | 80 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 0 | .163 | .173 | .200 | .373 | -0.2 | 15.2 | .181 | -2.5 |
| 1908 | 32 | 65 | 62 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .177 | .203 | .210 | .413 | 22.1 | 32.2 | .203 | 1.6 |
| 1910 | 27 | 48 | 44 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 0 | .114 | .133 | .159 | .292 | -14.0 | -6.2 | .143 | 0.5 |
| 1911 | 24 | 30 | 28 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .179 | .207 | .250 | .457 | 27.0 | 29.8 | .219 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905 | 43 | 42 | 20 | 21 | 0 | 41 | 7 | 337 | 122 | 71 | 156 | 6 | 378.0 | 2.90 | 1.079 | 3.71 | 2.59 | 86.3 | 103.3 | 3.3 |
| 1906 | 43 | 41 | 16 | 25 | 0 | 37 | 4 | 349 | 116 | 83 | 151 | 7 | 358.3 | 2.91 | 1.206 | 3.79 | 2.42 | 91.9 | 90.3 | 1.4 |
| 1907 | 40 | 32 | 10 | 23 | 1 | 22 | 3 | 287 | 108 | 58 | 86 | 5 | 245.3 | 3.96 | 1.406 | 3.15 | 2.45 | 96.7 | 63.9 | -2.5 |
| 1908 | 32 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 167 | 47 | 40 | 63 | 3 | 174.7 | 2.42 | 1.185 | 3.25 | 2.26 | 96.0 | 97.4 | 1.6 |
| 1910 | 27 | 17 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 122 | 41 | 39 | 64 | 0 | 135.7 | 2.72 | 1.187 | 4.25 | 2.23 | 93.3 | 88.0 | 0.5 |
| 1911 | 24 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 99 | 45 | 25 | 40 | 2 | 92.7 | 4.37 | 1.338 | 3.88 | 3.14 | 98.0 | 73.3 | -0.3 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911-06-16 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1907-05-25 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1908-07-05 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1910-07-08 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1906-08-31 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906-04-28 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 9.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| 1906-08-11 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 11.0 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
| 1906-06-12 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 |
| 1906-08-18 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 10.0 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 1905-06-15 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 9.2 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 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.