Rip Russell
Chicago Cubs 1939–1942; Boston Red Sox 1946–1947
Percentile snapshot
1939 season — qualified batters
of 88 qualified 1939 batters (min 483 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 143 | 594 | 542 | 55 | 148 | 24 | 5 | 9 | 79 | 36 | 56 | 2 | 0 | .273 | .318 | .386 | .704 | 85.0 | 87.9 | .324 | -0.4 |
| 1940 | 68 | 227 | 215 | 15 | 53 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 33 | 8 | 23 | 1 | 0 | .247 | .277 | .367 | .644 | 72.6 | 78.0 | .293 | -0.5 |
| 1941 | 6 | 19 | 17 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .294 | .333 | .353 | .686 | 94.3 | 96.0 | .324 | 0.0 |
| 1942 | 102 | 325 | 302 | 32 | 73 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 41 | 17 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .242 | .282 | .351 | .633 | 81.4 | 87.3 | .298 | 0.1 |
| 1946 | 80 | 295 | 274 | 22 | 57 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 35 | 13 | 30 | 1 | 1 | .208 | .247 | .318 | .564 | 41.4 | 53.1 | .262 | -1.0 |
| 1947 | 26 | 62 | 52 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .267 | .231 | .497 | 32.8 | 35.4 | .253 | -0.3 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-06-03 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1942-07-19 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1939-09-06 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1942-07-25 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1942-07-21 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-04-21 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-22 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-23 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-24 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-25 | PIT @ CHC 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.