Rick Ferrell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornOctober 12, 1905 · Durham, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1929

Final gameSeptember 14, 1947

Seasons18 (1929–1947)

St. Louis Browns 1929–1932; Boston Red Sox 1933; St. Louis Browns 1933; Boston Red Sox 1934–1937; Washington Senators 1937–1940; St. Louis Browns 1941; Washington Senators 1941; St. Louis Browns 1942–1943; Washington Senators 1944–1945; Washington Senators 1947

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified batters

135

48.8

495

25.6

411

19.8

27.3

120

28.1

44.6

39.7

8.3

RBI

43.8

82.6

76.9

9.1

.292

47.9

OBP

.401

82.6

SLG

.382

32.2

OPS

.783

52.1

wRC+

108.0

59.5

OPS+

102.7

48.8

wOBA

.373

63.6

sWAR

3.0

75.2

of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

98.8

39.1

OPS+

94.4

30.3

sWAR

36.0

97.4

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
1929	64	181	144	21	33	6	1	0	20	32	10	1	2	.229	.373	.285	.658	79.2	69.0	.329	0.5
1930	101	372	314	43	84	18	4	1	41	46	10	1	4	.268	.363	.360	.723	85.1	81.0	.339	1.3
1931	117	445	386	47	118	30	4	3	57	56	12	2	3	.306	.394	.427	.821	113.9	111.5	.383	3.0
1932	126	514	438	67	138	30	5	2	65	66	18	5	5	.315	.406	.420	.826	112.4	108.8	.385	3.4
1933	140	580	493	58	143	21	4	4	77	70	23	4	2	.290	.381	.373	.754	101.7	98.0	.359	3.0
1934	132	507	437	50	130	29	4	1	48	66	20	0	0	.297	.390	.389	.779	101.3	97.8	.370	2.7
1935	133	536	458	54	138	34	4	3	61	65	15	5	8	.301	.388	.413	.801	105.3	102.7	.376	3.1
1936	121	480	410	59	128	27	5	8	55	65	17	0	1	.312	.406	.461	.867	111.5	110.1	.400	3.1
1937	104	412	344	39	84	8	0	2	36	65	22	1	1	.244	.366	.285	.651	77.0	68.5	.323	0.9
1938	135	495	411	55	120	24	5	1	58	75	17	1	0	.292	.401	.382	.783	108.0	102.7	.373	3.0
1939	87	323	274	32	77	13	1	0	31	41	12	1	1	.281	.377	.336	.712	89.6	84.1	.343	1.2
1940	103	375	326	35	89	18	2	0	28	47	15	1	1	.273	.365	.340	.705	93.8	89.4	.334	1.7
1941	121	457	387	38	99	19	3	2	36	67	26	3	1	.256	.366	.336	.702	88.7	83.9	.339	1.8
1942	99	312	273	20	61	6	1	0	26	33	13	0	1	.223	.307	.253	.560	58.3	57.0	.281	0.3
1943	74	246	209	12	50	7	0	0	20	34	14	0	0	.239	.348	.273	.621	87.9	81.4	.316	1.1
1944	99	387	339	14	94	11	1	0	25	46	13	2	1	.277	.364	.316	.679	104.3	99.2	.335	2.4
1945	91	335	286	33	76	12	1	1	38	43	13	2	4	.266	.366	.325	.691	113.6	108.1	.343	2.4
1947	37	115	99	10	30	11	0	0	12	14	7	0	0	.303	.389	.414	.804	128.2	124.7	.382	1.1

Career totals

1,884

344th-most career G

7,072

443rd-most career PA

6,028

687

1,692

494th-most career H

324

397th-most career 2B

RBI

734

931

166th-most career BB

277

.2807

OBP

.3778

206th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3633

OPS

.7411

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
1935-06-30	BOS @ ATH Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	1	4	9
1936-08-18	BOS @ ATH Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	1	2	9
1947-07-06	MIN @ BOS Gameday	4	2	4	3	0	0	0	7
1930-06-14	MIN @ BAL Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	1	4	7
1935-07-17	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	1	3	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1929-04-16	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-17	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-18	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-19	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-20	DET @ BAL 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

Hall of Fame, 1984 (Veterans)

8× 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.