MLB / Players

Jim Russell

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 181 lb

BornOctober 1, 1918 · Fayette City, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 12, 1942

Final gameOctober 1, 1951

Seasons10 (1942–1951)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1942–1947; Boston Braves 1948–1949; Brooklyn Dodgers 1950–1951

Percentile snapshot

1949 season — qualified batters

130

486

415

2.7

13.3

RBI

22.7

49.3

13.3

34.7

49.3

.231

1.3

OBP

.337

SLG

.347

9.3

OPS

.684

9.3

wRC+

92.1

26.7

OPS+

89.2

wOBA

.323

13.3

sWAR

1.1

of 76 qualified 1949 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

110.3

62.2

OPS+

108.3

58.9

sWAR

16.3

91.8

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1942	5	15	14	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	.071	.133	.071	.205	-55.5	-39.9	.114	-0.2
1943	146	614	533	79	138	19	11	4	44	77	67	12	.259	.354	.358	.712	106.2	102.5	.347	1.7
1944	152	664	580	109	181	34	14	8	66	79	63	6	.312	.399	.460	.859	141.4	137.4	.401	4.8
1945	146	589	510	88	145	24	8	12	77	71	40	15	.284	.377	.433	.810	122.8	121.0	.383	2.9
1946	146	591	516	68	143	29	6	8	50	67	54	11	.277	.362	.403	.765	116.1	113.6	.365	2.8
1947	128	548	478	68	121	21	8	8	51	63	58	7	.253	.343	.381	.723	89.2	88.6	.338	1.1
1948	89	374	322	44	85	18	1	9	54	46	31	4	.264	.361	.410	.771	112.9	111.0	.359	2.0
1949	130	486	415	57	96	22	1	8	54	64	68	3	.231	.337	.347	.684	92.1	89.2	.323	1.1
1950	77	246	214	37	49	8	2	10	32	31	36	1	.229	.329	.425	.755	95.3	95.9	.341	0.4
1951	16	18	13	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	6	0	.000	.278	.000	.278	7.7	-19.0	.206	-0.2

Career totals

1,035

4,145

3,595

554

959

175

RBI

428

503

427

.2668

OBP

.3602

472nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3997

OPS

.7599

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	TB
1948-06-07	ATL @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	2	5	12
1946-09-01	STL @ PIT Gameday	5	2	5	2	2	0	1	11
1947-08-20	PIT @ ATL Gameday	6	3	5	1	1	0	5	8
1945-07-23	ATL @ PIT Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	3	8
1947-08-25	PIT @ LAD Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	3	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1942-04-14	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-15	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-16	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-17	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-18	STL @ PIT 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.