MLB / Players

Ralph Young

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 5 in · 165 lb

BornSeptember 19, 1888 · Philadelphia, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 10, 1913

Final gameSeptember 29, 1922

Seasons9 (1913–1922)

New York Yankees 1913; Detroit Tigers 1915–1921; Philadelphia Athletics 1922

Percentile snapshot

1922 season — qualified batters

125

50.9

538

55.3

470

53.5

52.8

105

41.5

48.4

16.4

15.1

RBI

30.8

78.6

42.1

46.5

32.7

.223

OBP

.309

15.1

SLG

.279

5.7

OPS

.587

6.3

wRC+

52.0

1.9

OPS+

51.2

3.1

wOBA

.287

6.9

sWAR

-1.3

1.3

of 160 qualified 1922 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

82.0

12.6

OPS+

78.2

7.7

sWAR

6.7

82.3

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1913	7	18	15	2	1	0	0	0	0	3	3	2	0	.067	.222	.067	.289	-3.7	-15.6	.183	-0.1
1915	123	455	378	44	92	6	5	0	31	53	31	12	11	.243	.339	.286	.625	87.3	83.1	.321	1.0
1916	153	614	528	60	139	16	6	1	45	62	43	20	20	.263	.342	.322	.664	98.3	96.6	.333	2.3
1917	141	598	503	64	116	18	2	1	35	61	35	8	0	.231	.317	.280	.598	83.6	81.1	.304	1.1
1918	91	368	298	31	56	7	1	0	21	54	17	15	0	.188	.313	.218	.531	70.1	62.0	.286	0.1
1919	125	556	456	63	96	13	5	1	25	53	32	8	0	.211	.294	.268	.562	58.6	58.2	.280	-0.7
1920	150	703	594	84	173	21	6	0	33	85	30	8	13	.291	.382	.347	.729	100.2	95.0	.355	2.6
1921	107	486	401	70	120	8	3	0	29	69	23	11	9	.299	.406	.334	.740	98.6	90.3	.363	1.7
1922	125	538	470	62	105	19	2	1	35	55	21	8	6	.223	.309	.279	.587	52.0	51.2	.287	-1.3

Career totals

1,022

4,336

3,643

480

898

108

RBI

254

495

235

.2465

OBP

.3390

SLG

.2959

OPS

.6349

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
1920-08-05	NYY @ DET Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	0	0	7
1919-07-15	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	2	4	0	1	0	4	1	6
1920-06-02	DET @ CLE Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	0	0	0	6
1920-07-25	BAL @ DET Gameday	6	0	3	1	1	0	4	0	6
1917-04-20	DET @ CLE Gameday	5	2	2	1	0	1	3	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1913-04-10	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-14	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-15	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-17	MIN @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-18	MIN @ NYY 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.