Rube Oldring

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 186 lb

BornMay 30, 1884 · New York, NY, USA

MLB debutOctober 2, 1905

Final gameAugust 30, 1918

Seasons13 (1905–1918)

New York Highlanders 1905; Philadelphia Athletics 1906–1915; New York Yankees 1916; Philadelphia Athletics 1916; Philadelphia Athletics 1918

Percentile snapshot

1914 season — qualified batters

119

21.5

500

26.4

466

36.8

64.4

129

57.7

57.1

RBI

56.4

17.2

59.5

30.1

16.6

.277

51.5

OBP

.308

SLG

.371

53.4

OPS

.679

36.2

wRC+

100.1

36.2

OPS+

106.0

47.9

wOBA

.327

30.7

sWAR

1.1

of 164 qualified 1914 batters (min 489 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

99.6

40.9

OPS+

103.9

50.2

sWAR

15.3

91.1

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1905	8	33	30	2	9	0	1	1	6	2	4	4	0	.300	.344	.467	.810	141.8	144.9	.382	0.3
1906	59	180	174	15	42	10	1	0	19	2	20	7	0	.241	.263	.310	.573	72.9	77.9	.274	0.1
1907	117	460	441	48	126	27	8	1	40	7	47	29	0	.286	.305	.390	.695	114.5	119.7	.333	2.6
1908	116	480	434	38	96	14	2	1	39	18	50	13	0	.221	.267	.270	.536	70.0	71.9	.265	0.0
1909	90	367	326	39	75	13	8	1	28	20	39	17	0	.230	.287	.328	.615	90.6	92.8	.302	0.7
1910	134	594	546	79	168	27	14	4	57	23	41	17	0	.308	.340	.430	.771	140.7	146.3	.369	5.0
1911	121	547	495	84	147	11	14	3	59	21	41	21	0	.297	.332	.394	.726	102.2	105.9	.345	2.2
1912	99	426	395	61	119	14	5	1	24	10	40	17	14	.301	.324	.370	.693	97.9	102.1	.331	1.4
1913	137	592	538	101	152	27	9	5	71	34	37	40	0	.283	.328	.394	.722	109.4	113.5	.347	2.0
1914	119	500	466	68	129	21	7	3	49	18	35	14	16	.277	.308	.371	.679	100.1	106.0	.327	1.1
1915	107	439	408	49	101	23	3	6	42	22	21	11	6	.248	.293	.363	.655	89.8	96.0	.318	0.5
1916	83	330	304	27	73	16	3	1	26	21	22	7	0	.240	.289	.322	.612	77.6	82.9	.300	-0.2
1918	49	148	133	5	31	2	1	0	11	8	10	0	0	.233	.282	.263	.545	55.9	61.5	.274	-0.4

Career totals

1,239

5,096

4,690

616

1,268

205

319th-most career 3B

RBI

471

206

407

197

374th-most career SB

.2704

OBP

.3074

SLG

.3638

OPS

.6712

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
1914-05-25	BAL @ ATH Gameday	3	2	3	0	1	1	4	1	8
1913-06-07	BAL @ ATH Gameday	3	3	3	0	1	1	3	2	8
1916-06-01	ATH @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	1	0	7
1913-07-03	ATH @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	0	0	7
1911-07-11	ATH @ DET Gameday	3	2	3	2	1	0	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1905-04-14	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1905-04-15	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1905-04-17	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1905-04-19	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1905-04-20	NYY @ ATH 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.