MLB / Players

Red Rolfe

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornOctober 17, 1908 · Penacook, NH, USA

MLB debutJune 29, 1931

Final gameSeptember 27, 1942

Seasons10 (1931–1942)

New York Yankees 1931; New York Yankees 1934–1942

Percentile snapshot

1941 season — qualified batters

136

55.4

621

561

84.9

106

94.2

148

68.3

45.3

55.4

64.7

RBI

40.3

65.5

38.8

34.5

25.9

.264

34.5

OBP

.332

35.3

SLG

.364

36.7

OPS

.695

34.5

wRC+

86.7

26.6

OPS+

87.2

28.1

wOBA

.326

31.7

sWAR

1.2

of 140 qualified 1941 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

101.8

44.9

OPS+

101.6

44.9

sWAR

20.2

93.7

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
1931	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1934	89	309	279	54	80	13	2	0	18	26	16	2	3	.287	.348	.348	.695	87.9	86.6	.330	0.8
1935	149	706	639	108	192	33	9	5	67	57	39	7	3	.300	.361	.404	.764	104.1	104.5	.356	2.9
1936	135	646	568	116	181	39	15	10	70	68	38	3	0	.319	.392	.493	.884	120.9	123.0	.402	3.9
1937	154	740	648	143	179	34	10	4	62	90	53	4	2	.276	.365	.378	.743	90.3	87.8	.349	1.7
1938	151	714	631	132	196	36	8	10	80	74	44	13	1	.311	.386	.441	.826	110.7	110.3	.381	3.5
1939	152	731	648	139	213	46	10	14	80	81	41	7	6	.329	.404	.495	.899	133.2	134.4	.409	5.7
1940	139	647	588	102	147	26	6	10	53	50	48	4	2	.250	.311	.366	.677	74.0	75.6	.310	0.2
1941	136	621	561	106	148	22	5	8	42	57	38	3	2	.264	.332	.364	.695	86.7	87.2	.326	1.2
1942	69	291	265	42	58	8	2	8	25	23	18	1	1	.219	.281	.355	.636	77.4	81.9	.300	0.3

Career totals

1,175

5,405

4,827

942

430th-most career R

1,394

257

437th-most career 3B

RBI

497

526

335

.2888

441st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3599

484th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4127

OPS

.7726

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
1940-07-11	BAL @ NYY Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	1	3	10
1935-08-04	NYY @ MIN Gameday	5	1	5	2	1	0	2	9
1936-06-11	DET @ NYY Gameday	6	1	4	3	1	0	3	9
1939-06-20	CWS @ NYY Gameday	6	2	4	2	1	0	4	8
1940-07-18	CLE @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	4	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1931-04-14	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-15	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-16	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-18	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-19	ATH @ 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.

Honors

4× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.