Ron Northey

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 195 lb

BornApril 26, 1920 · Mahanoy City, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1942

Final gameSeptember 28, 1957

Seasons12 (1942–1957)

Philadelphia Phillies 1942; Philadelphia Blue Jays 1943–1944; Philadelphia Phillies 1946–1947; St. Louis Cardinals 1947–1949; Chicago Cubs 1950; Cincinnati Reds 1950; Chicago Cubs 1952; Chicago White Sox 1955–1957; Philadelphia Phillies 1957

Percentile snapshot

1946 season — qualified batters

128

45.4

480

438

37.1

47.4

109

35.1

61.9

85.6

RBI

71.1

45.4

16.5

8.2

.249

13.4

OBP

.313

14.4

SLG

.441

74.2

OPS

.754

47.4

wRC+

109.3

46.4

OPS+

113.4

49.5

wOBA

.350

44.3

sWAR

1.5

40.2

of 98 qualified 1946 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

121.9

81.7

OPS+

122.4

82.7

sWAR

16.8

92.1

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1942	127	433	402	31	101	13	2	5	31	28	33	2	.251	.300	.331	.631	82.8	86.4	.301	-0.1
1943	147	644	586	72	163	31	5	16	68	51	52	2	.278	.339	.430	.769	122.2	123.5	.362	3.0
1944	152	645	570	72	164	35	9	22	104	67	51	1	.288	.367	.496	.863	142.3	142.7	.396	4.6
1946	128	480	438	55	109	24	6	16	62	39	59	1	.249	.313	.441	.754	109.3	113.4	.350	1.5
1947	123	414	358	59	103	22	3	15	66	54	32	1	.288	.384	.492	.876	130.2	129.2	.398	2.4
1948	96	288	246	40	79	10	1	13	64	38	25	0	.321	.420	.528	.949	154.7	151.3	.430	2.6
1949	90	297	265	28	69	18	2	7	50	31	15	0	.260	.338	.423	.760	100.0	100.7	.347	0.6
1950	80	217	191	22	52	14	0	9	29	25	15	0	.272	.356	.487	.843	118.6	119.4	.375	1.0
1952	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-134.5	-100.0	.000	0.0
1955	14	17	14	1	5	2	0	1	4	3	3	0	.357	.471	.714	1.185	217.9	216.3	.524	0.3
1956	53	60	48	4	17	2	0	3	23	8	1	0	.354	.417	.583	1.000	149.0	163.6	.423	0.5
1957	73	71	53	1	12	1	0	1	12	17	11	0	.226	.408	.302	.710	107.8	96.1	.343	0.3

Career totals

1,084

3,567

3,172

385

874

172

108

RBI

513

361

297

.2755

OBP

.3518

SLG

.4496

486th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8014

492nd-highest career OPS

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	HR	RBI	TB
1944-10-01	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	3	4	1	2	3	11
1947-05-04	STL @ ATL Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	9
1944-06-22	PHI @ ATL Gameday	6	1	4	1	1	1	8
1946-08-14	PHI @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	2	1	3	8
1943-08-06	PHI @ SF Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	3	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1942-04-14	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-15	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-16	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-17	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-18	PHI @ LAD 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.