MLB / Players

Ross Youngs

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 162 lb

BornApril 10, 1897 · Shiner, TX, USA

MLB debutSeptember 25, 1917

Final gameAugust 10, 1926

Seasons10 (1917–1926)

New York Giants 1917–1926

Percentile snapshot

1925 season — qualified batters

130

584

74.7

500

71.6

68.5

132

56.8

61.7

54.9

55.6

RBI

45.7

89.5

6.8

84.6

11.1

.264

OBP

.354

36.4

SLG

.372

23.5

OPS

.726

24.1

wRC+

93.1

32.1

OPS+

90.1

27.2

wOBA

.339

23.5

sWAR

0.8

27.2

of 163 qualified 1925 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

134.2

93.5

OPS+

132.4

sWAR

35.0

97.3

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
1917	7	29	26	5	9	2	3	0	1	1	5	1	0	.346	.370	.654	1.024	215.6	217.9	.467	0.5
1918	121	532	474	70	143	16	8	1	25	44	49	10	0	.302	.368	.376	.744	133.6	130.6	.361	3.3
1919	130	560	489	73	152	31	7	2	43	51	47	24	0	.311	.384	.415	.799	147.0	142.7	.381	4.3
1920	153	671	581	92	204	27	14	6	78	75	55	18	18	.351	.427	.477	.904	167.5	162.3	.424	6.9
1921	141	594	504	90	165	24	16	3	102	71	47	21	17	.327	.411	.456	.868	135.2	131.3	.401	3.9
1922	149	642	559	105	185	34	10	7	86	55	50	17	9	.331	.398	.465	.863	123.8	123.0	.397	3.3
1923	152	688	596	121	200	33	12	3	87	73	36	13	19	.336	.412	.446	.859	132.2	129.8	.400	4.3
1924	133	612	526	112	187	33	12	10	74	77	31	11	9	.356	.441	.521	.962	161.1	157.4	.439	6.1
1925	130	584	500	82	132	24	6	6	53	66	51	17	11	.264	.354	.372	.726	93.1	90.1	.339	0.8
1926	95	421	372	62	114	12	5	4	43	37	19	21	0	.306	.372	.398	.770	110.8	109.0	.362	1.5

Career totals

1,211

5,333

4,627

812

1,491

236

200th-most career 3B

RBI

592

550

390

153

.3222

60th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3985

72nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4407

OPS

.8392

246th-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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1922-04-29	SF @ ATL Gameday	5	5	5	2	1	1	2	0	12
1920-05-11	SF @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	3	0	2	0	9
1924-05-16	SF @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	3	1	8
1918-06-26	SF @ ATL Gameday	5	1	4	0	2	0	2	0	8
1919-07-29	SF @ PIT Gameday	5	0	4	2	1	0	1	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1917-04-12	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1917-04-14	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1917-04-16	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1917-04-17	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1917-04-18	SF @ 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1972 (Veterans)

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