MLB / Players

Pep Young

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 162 lb

BornAugust 29, 1907 · Jamestown, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 25, 1933

Final gameSeptember 30, 1945

Seasons10 (1933–1945)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1933–1940; Cincinnati Reds 1941; St. Louis Cardinals 1941; St. Louis Cardinals 1945

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified batters

149

82.6

610

67.8

562

76.9

29.8

156

65.3

90.9

39.7

26.4

RBI

66.9

38.8

13.2

70.2

.278

38.8

OBP

.329

16.5

SLG

.381

31.4

OPS

.710

24.8

wRC+

93.4

30.6

OPS+

94.6

34.7

wOBA

.329

23.1

sWAR

1.8

48.8

of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.4

77.8

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
1933	25	20	20	3	6	1	1	0	0	0	5	0	.300	.300	.450	.750	107.5	112.0	.337	0.1
1934	19	17	17	3	4	0	0	0	2	0	6	0	.235	.235	.235	.471	16.6	25.6	.215	-0.1
1935	128	523	494	60	131	25	10	7	82	21	59	2	.265	.298	.399	.697	80.5	83.8	.313	0.6
1936	125	514	475	47	118	23	10	6	77	29	52	3	.248	.293	.377	.670	75.1	78.7	.307	0.3
1937	113	442	408	43	106	20	3	9	54	26	63	4	.260	.306	.390	.695	85.9	88.7	.318	1.0
1938	149	610	562	58	156	36	5	4	79	40	64	7	.278	.329	.381	.710	93.4	94.6	.329	1.8
1939	84	327	293	34	81	14	3	3	29	23	29	1	.276	.333	.375	.709	90.1	91.0	.330	0.8
1940	54	150	136	19	34	8	2	2	20	12	23	1	.250	.320	.382	.702	92.4	93.1	.325	0.5
1941	6	15	14	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.143	.200	.143	.343	-7.9	-1.1	.175	-0.1
1945	27	50	47	5	7	1	0	1	4	1	8	0	.149	.167	.234	.401	-1.5	11.1	.186	-0.4

Career totals

730

2,668

2,466

274

645

128

RBI

347

152

312

.2616

OBP

.3076

SLG

.3800

OPS

.6876

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
1936-05-20	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	0	8
1940-09-23	CIN @ PIT Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	0	4	0	7
1938-06-04	LAD @ PIT Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	0	1	0	7
1939-08-16	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	3	4	3	0	0	0	0	7
1938-08-07	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	3	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1933-04-12	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1933-04-13	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1933-04-15	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1933-04-18	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1933-04-21	CIN @ 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.