Jack Russell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 178 lb

BornOctober 24, 1905 · Paris, TX, USA

MLB debutMay 5, 1926

Final gameAugust 7, 1940

Seasons15 (1926–1940)

Boston Red Sox 1926–1932; Cleveland Indians 1932; Washington Senators 1933–1935; Boston Red Sox 1936; Washington Senators 1936; Detroit Tigers 1937; Chicago Cubs 1938–1939; St. Louis Cardinals 1940

Percentile snapshot

1934 season — qualified pitchers

100

20.6

26.5

41.2

10.8

SHO

179

59.8

55.9

47.1

24.5

56.9

157.7

39.2

ERA

4.17

WHIP

1.490

35.3

K/9

2.17

FIP

4.27

46.1

FIP-

98.3

ERA+

104.3

52.9

sWAR

2.1

of 103 qualified 1934 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

95.3

19.2

sWAR

15.3

91.2

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1926	36	24	21	0	4	0	0	0	0	2	6	0	.190	.261	.190	.451	18.6	19.5	.230	1.4
1927	35	49	48	5	6	0	2	0	4	0	16	0	.125	.125	.208	.333	-28.5	-14.6	.148	1.2
1928	35	70	62	5	13	3	1	0	5	1	14	0	.210	.222	.290	.513	25.5	34.0	.233	2.4
1929	37	80	70	5	9	0	0	0	2	5	22	0	.129	.187	.129	.315	-18.8	-16.6	.161	2.4
1930	41	84	79	12	14	3	0	1	4	3	31	0	.177	.207	.253	.460	16.4	18.0	.210	-0.1
1931	41	88	82	12	16	7	0	0	5	2	28	1	.195	.214	.280	.495	27.1	31.8	.226	0.0
1932	31	55	51	3	13	1	1	0	5	2	17	0	.255	.283	.314	.597	48.6	52.0	.275	0.6
1933	50	39	34	5	5	0	0	0	3	3	13	0	.147	.216	.147	.363	1.2	-1.2	.187	3.1
1934	54	56	44	3	7	1	2	0	4	10	13	0	.159	.315	.273	.588	63.9	55.3	.296	2.1
1935	43	38	35	7	7	0	2	0	5	3	14	0	.200	.263	.314	.577	47.3	50.7	.270	-0.5
1936	41	24	22	3	2	1	0	0	0	1	8	0	.091	.130	.136	.267	-37.9	-36.0	.129	-0.1
1937	25	10	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	.000	.222	.000	.222	-20.6	-39.3	.168	-0.8
1938	42	35	32	4	7	1	1	0	3	2	15	0	.219	.265	.313	.577	51.8	57.2	.269	1.7
1939	43	17	17	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.2	-100.0	.000	0.6
1940	26	13	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.5	-100.0	.000	1.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1926	36	5	0	5	0	1	0	94	39	24	17	2	98.0	3.58	1.204	1.56	3.60	90.4	111.3	1.4
1927	34	15	4	9	0	4	1	172	67	40	25	5	147.0	4.10	1.442	1.53	4.08	99.0	100.5	1.2
1928	32	26	11	14	0	10	2	233	86	41	27	6	201.3	3.84	1.361	1.21	3.82	95.2	104.4	2.4
1929	35	32	6	18	0	13	0	263	99	40	37	12	227.3	3.92	1.333	1.46	3.94	94.8	106.1	2.4
1930	35	30	9	20	0	15	0	302	139	53	35	11	229.7	5.45	1.546	1.37	4.50	100.1	82.5	-0.1
1931	36	31	10	18	0	13	0	298	133	65	45	7	232.0	5.16	1.565	1.75	4.12	98.2	81.4	0.0
1932	29	17	6	14	1	7	0	207	89	42	34	7	152.7	5.25	1.631	2.00	4.12	89.9	87.6	0.6
1933	50	3	12	6	13	2	0	119	37	32	28	3	124.0	2.69	1.218	2.03	3.69	88.2	155.8	3.1
1934	54	9	5	10	7	3	0	179	73	56	38	6	157.7	4.17	1.490	2.17	4.27	98.3	104.3	2.1
1935	43	7	4	9	3	2	0	170	80	37	30	10	126.0	5.71	1.643	2.14	4.57	105.5	75.9	-0.5
1936	41	7	3	5	3	1	0	123	60	41	15	5	89.7	6.02	1.829	1.51	5.25	105.6	82.9	-0.1
1937	25	0	2	5	4	0	0	63	34	20	10	4	40.3	7.59	2.058	2.23	5.48	117.9	61.3	-0.8
1938	42	0	6	1	3	0	0	100	38	30	29	1	102.3	3.34	1.270	2.55	3.20	83.5	114.9	1.7
1939	39	0	4	3	3	0	0	78	28	24	32	3	68.7	3.67	1.485	4.19	3.49	88.8	107.2	0.6
1940	26	0	3	4	1	0	0	53	15	26	16	1	54.0	2.50	1.463	2.67	4.01	100.4	159.6	1.3

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

580

682

617

103

RBI

213

.1669

OBP

.2129

SLG

.2285

OPS

.4414

Pitching

G (P)

557

320th-most career G (P)

182

141

210th-most career L

460th-most career SV

SHO

2,051

429th-most career IP

SO (P)

418

BB allowed

571

ERA

4.463

WHIP

1.4751

K/9

1.83

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
1931-07-23	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	0	1	0	5
1935-06-14	MIN @ CWS Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	0	2	0	4
1938-07-26	CHC @ LAD Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	0	2	1	4
1931-08-29	MIN @ BOS Gameday	3	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	4
1930-08-03	BOS @ MIN Gameday	3	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1934-08-31	MIN @ NYY Gameday	6.0	4	2	2	3	6	1
1929-05-07	BOS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	9	4	4	1	4	0
1930-06-21	BAL @ BOS Gameday	9.0	8	2	2	2	4	0
1931-09-18	CLE @ BOS Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	2	4	0
1927-07-02	BOS @ NYY Gameday	8.0	9	3	3	1	4	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.