MLB / Players

Reb Russell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornMarch 12, 1889 · Jackson, MS, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1913

Final gameSeptember 30, 1923

Seasons9 (1913–1923)

Chicago White Sox 1913–1919; Pittsburgh Pirates 1922–1923

Percentile snapshot

1918 season — qualified pitchers

34.4

30.1

76.3

35.5

SHO

55.9

117

75.3

74.2

66.7

124.7

25.8

ERA

2.60

65.6

WHIP

1.203

64.5

K/9

2.74

41.9

FIP

2.34

94.6

FIP-

85.2

90.3

ERA+

105.8

58.1

sWAR

1.3

of 94 qualified 1918 pitchers (min 124 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

119.7

89.3

sWAR

25.3

95.4

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1913	52	112	106	9	20	5	3	1	7	1	29	0	0	.189	.204	.321	.524	42.8	54.8	.246	7.2
1914	46	65	64	6	17	1	1	0	7	1	14	0	0	.266	.277	.313	.589	71.1	79.8	.284	1.5
1915	45	94	86	11	21	2	3	0	7	4	14	1	0	.244	.293	.337	.631	83.3	88.1	.309	3.7
1916	56	94	91	9	13	2	0	0	6	0	18	1	0	.143	.152	.165	.317	-22.0	-3.9	.154	3.4
1917	39	74	68	5	19	3	3	0	9	2	10	0	0	.279	.300	.412	.712	108.8	116.3	.339	4.2
1918	27	55	50	2	7	3	0	0	3	0	6	0	0	.140	.157	.200	.357	-10.8	7.9	.174	1.3
1919	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1922	60	250	220	51	81	14	8	12	75	14	18	4	2	.368	.423	.668	1.091	173.4	178.0	.480	2.8
1923	94	318	291	49	84	18	7	9	58	20	21	3	1	.289	.341	.491	.832	113.6	116.9	.375	1.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1913	52	36	22	16	4	26	8	250	67	79	122	2	316.7	1.90	1.039	3.47	2.62	91.7	150.3	7.2
1914	38	23	8	12	1	8	1	168	54	33	79	3	167.3	2.90	1.201	4.25	2.28	85.8	91.3	1.5
1915	41	25	11	10	2	10	3	215	66	47	90	0	229.3	2.59	1.142	3.53	2.28	77.5	113.8	3.7
1916	56	25	18	11	3	16	5	207	71	42	112	1	264.3	2.42	.942	3.81	2.02	72.5	114.9	3.4
1917	35	24	15	5	3	11	5	170	41	32	54	1	189.3	1.95	1.067	2.57	2.16	80.8	137.3	4.2
1918	19	15	7	5	0	10	2	117	36	33	38	0	124.7	2.60	1.203	2.74	2.34	85.2	105.8	1.3
1919	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0.0	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0

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

420

1,062

976

142

262

RBI

172

130

.2684

OBP

.3088

SLG

.4365

OPS

.7453

Pitching

G (P)

242

148

SHO

189th-most career SHO

1,292

SO (P)

495

BB allowed

267

ERA

2.334

20th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.0800

14th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.45

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
1922-09-01	PIT @ STL Gameday	5	4	4	1	0	2	4	0	11
1922-08-08	PIT @ PHI Gameday	5	5	5	2	0	1	7	0	10
1923-06-08	SF @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	4	0	8
1922-08-25	LAD @ PIT Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	1	8
1922-09-30	PIT @ CIN Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	0	1	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1915-04-25	BAL @ CWS Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	2	11
1913-06-23	BAL @ CWS Gameday	12.0	8	3	2	4	9
1915-05-01	DET @ CWS Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	3	9
1915-05-24	NYY @ CWS Gameday	7.2	5	3	1	2	8
1913-07-04	CWS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	2	7

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.