MLB / Players

Red Ruffing

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 205 lb

BornMay 3, 1905 · Granville, IL, USA

MLB debutMay 31, 1924

Final gameSeptember 15, 1947

Seasons22 (1924–1947)

Boston Red Sox 1924–1930; New York Yankees 1930–1942; New York Yankees 1945–1946; Chicago White Sox 1947

Percentile snapshot

1942 season — qualified pitchers

43.5

63.9

79.6

48.1

77.8

SHO

88.9

183

30.6

33.3

57.4

77.8

19.4

193.7

67.6

ERA

3.21

59.3

WHIP

1.157

K/9

3.72

47.2

FIP

3.08

80.6

FIP-

87.7

74.1

ERA+

109.4

53.7

sWAR

3.3

75.9

of 109 qualified 1942 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

111.4

74.9

sWAR

74.6

99.7

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
1924	8	7	7	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	.143	.143	.429	.571	24.0	43.1	.243	-0.3
1925	37	83	79	6	17	4	2	0	11	1	22	0	0	.215	.235	.316	.551	29.2	37.8	.252	0.9
1926	37	55	51	8	10	1	0	1	5	2	12	0	1	.196	.226	.275	.501	21.6	30.7	.235	0.9
1927	29	62	55	5	14	3	1	0	4	0	6	0	0	.255	.268	.345	.613	51.7	58.4	.281	0.8
1928	60	131	121	12	38	13	1	2	19	3	12	0	0	.314	.331	.488	.818	108.3	113.0	.366	4.5
1929	60	120	114	9	35	9	0	2	17	2	13	0	0	.307	.325	.439	.763	92.4	96.6	.343	1.5
1930	58	117	110	17	40	8	2	4	22	7	8	0	0	.364	.402	.582	.984	146.2	151.0	.432	3.8
1931	48	116	109	14	36	8	1	3	12	1	13	0	0	.330	.336	.505	.841	118.3	124.3	.375	2.8
1932	55	132	124	20	38	6	1	3	19	6	10	0	0	.306	.338	.444	.782	98.4	101.4	.353	7.2
1933	55	124	115	10	29	3	1	2	13	7	15	0	0	.252	.295	.348	.643	73.4	75.4	.298	3.2
1934	45	117	113	11	28	3	0	2	13	3	17	0	0	.248	.274	.327	.601	56.5	60.3	.278	3.7
1935	50	114	109	13	37	10	0	2	18	3	9	0	0	.339	.363	.486	.849	121.6	125.8	.384	5.7
1936	53	140	127	14	37	5	0	5	22	11	12	0	0	.291	.348	.449	.797	98.1	100.7	.362	6.3
1937	54	144	129	11	26	3	0	1	10	13	24	0	0	.202	.275	.248	.523	32.2	32.8	.253	7.0
1938	45	125	107	12	24	4	1	3	17	17	21	0	0	.224	.331	.364	.695	79.0	77.2	.327	6.5
1939	44	124	114	12	35	1	0	1	20	7	18	1	0	.307	.347	.342	.689	81.7	81.2	.323	6.6
1940	33	93	89	8	11	4	0	1	7	3	9	0	0	.124	.152	.202	.354	-19.2	-8.5	.162	4.2
1941	38	94	89	10	27	8	1	2	22	4	12	0	0	.303	.333	.483	.816	112.8	117.6	.366	3.8
1942	30	88	80	8	20	4	0	1	13	5	13	0	0	.250	.302	.338	.640	80.4	83.5	.305	3.3
1945	21	46	46	4	10	0	1	1	5	0	8	0	0	.217	.217	.326	.543	37.9	54.5	.251	1.6
1946	8	26	25	1	3	1	0	0	1	1	8	0	0	.120	.154	.160	.314	-32.1	-12.2	.152	1.8
1947	14	25	24	2	5	0	0	0	3	1	3	0	0	.208	.240	.208	.448	17.0	27.1	.218	-1.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1924	8	2	0	0	0	0	0	29	17	9	10	0	23.0	6.65	1.652	3.91	3.82	89.6	64.1	-0.3
1925	37	27	9	18	1	13	3	253	121	75	64	10	217.3	5.01	1.509	2.65	4.18	93.9	88.8	0.9
1926	37	22	6	15	2	6	0	169	81	68	58	4	166.0	4.39	1.428	3.14	3.85	96.7	90.8	0.9
1927	26	18	5	13	2	10	0	160	82	87	77	7	158.3	4.66	1.560	4.38	4.39	106.4	88.4	0.8
1928	42	34	10	25	2	25	1	303	125	96	118	8	289.3	3.89	1.379	3.67	3.67	91.5	103.3	4.5
1929	35	30	9	22	1	18	1	280	132	118	109	17	244.3	4.86	1.629	4.02	4.50	108.2	85.5	1.5
1930	38	28	15	8	1	13	2	232	108	68	131	11	221.7	4.38	1.353	5.32	3.87	86.6	102.0	3.8
1931	37	30	16	14	2	19	1	240	116	87	132	11	237.0	4.41	1.380	5.01	3.92	94.4	94.2	2.8
1932	35	29	18	7	2	22	3	219	89	115	190	16	259.0	3.09	1.290	6.60	3.83	85.9	144.1	7.2
1933	35	28	9	14	3	18	0	230	102	93	122	7	235.0	3.91	1.374	4.67	3.62	90.3	102.6	3.2
1934	36	31	19	11	0	19	5	232	112	104	149	18	256.3	3.93	1.311	5.23	4.13	99.1	106.1	3.7
1935	30	29	16	11	0	19	2	201	77	76	81	17	222.0	3.12	1.248	3.28	4.40	106.1	132.7	5.7
1936	33	33	20	12	0	25	3	274	116	90	102	22	271.0	3.85	1.343	3.39	4.82	101.1	123.8	6.3
1937	31	31	20	7	0	22	4	242	85	68	131	17	256.3	2.98	1.209	4.60	3.77	81.9	154.4	7.0
1938	31	31	21	7	0	22	3	246	91	82	127	16	247.3	3.31	1.326	4.62	3.92	84.9	139.6	6.5
1939	28	28	21	7	0	22	5	211	76	75	95	15	233.3	2.93	1.226	3.66	4.15	94.2	150.1	6.6
1940	30	30	15	12	0	20	3	218	85	76	97	24	226.0	3.38	1.301	3.86	4.49	103.6	128.2	4.2
1941	23	23	15	6	0	13	2	177	73	54	60	13	185.7	3.54	1.244	2.91	3.91	97.9	113.0	3.8
1942	24	24	14	7	0	16	4	183	69	41	80	10	193.7	3.21	1.157	3.72	3.08	87.7	109.4	3.3
1945	11	11	7	3	0	8	1	85	28	20	24	2	87.3	2.89	1.202	2.47	2.91	83.9	120.2	1.6
1946	8	8	5	1	0	4	2	37	12	23	19	2	61.0	1.77	.984	2.80	3.38	96.8	197.5	1.8
1947	9	9	3	5	0	1	0	63	36	16	11	7	53.0	6.11	1.491	1.87	4.63	128.5	58.9	-1.1

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

882

2,083

1,937

207

521

RBI

273

266

.2690

OBP

.3059

SLG

.3887

OPS

.6946

Pitching

G (P)

624

205th-most career G (P)

536

36th-most career GS

273

32nd-most career W

225

24th-most career L

335

29th-most career CG

SHO

29th-most career SHO

4,344

32nd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,987

94th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,541

11th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.798

WHIP

1.3409

K/9

4.12

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
1936-06-17	NYY @ CLE Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	2	2	10
1941-09-23	ATH @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	3	8
1930-09-18	NYY @ BAL Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	8
1929-05-25	NYY @ BOS Gameday	4	0	4	3	0	0	2	7
1930-09-14	NYY @ DET Gameday	5	2	3	2	1	0	4	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1927-09-05	NYY @ BOS Gameday	15.0	16	8	8	11	12	1
1932-08-13	NYY @ MIN Gameday	10.0	3	0	0	2	12	0
1932-05-15	CLE @ NYY Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	2	12	0
1934-08-18	BAL @ NYY Gameday	12.0	6	1	1	4	11	0
1934-08-14	DET @ NYY Gameday	9.0	12	7	7	2	11	1

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

Hall of Fame, 1967 (Run Off)

6× 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.