Leandy Young
Kansas City Monarchs 1940; Chicago American Giants 1942; Memphis Red Sox 1942; Birmingham Black Barons 1944–1945
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 6 | 20 | 18 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .368 | .556 | .924 | 158.2 | 178.6 | .436 | 0.2 |
| 1942 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .273 | .273 | .273 | .545 | 62.6 | 62.6 | .256 | 0.0 |
| 1944 | 12 | 38 | 37 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .270 | .270 | .324 | .595 | 79.1 | 84.1 | .282 | 0.0 |
| 1945 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .375 | .500 | .375 | .875 | 161.2 | 158.3 | .434 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-09-01 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1940-09-08 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1944-06-11 | BBB @ HOM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1944-08-28 | BBB @ PHS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1944-06-08 | BBB @ HOM Gameday | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-04-21 | KCM @ TIC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-28 | HOM @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-28 | HOM @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-08 | KCM @ HSL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-12 | KCM @ BBB 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.