Rudy York

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 209 lb

BornAugust 17, 1913 · Ragland, AL, USA

MLB debutAugust 22, 1934

Final gameSeptember 20, 1948

Seasons13 (1934–1948)

Detroit Tigers 1934; Detroit Tigers 1937–1945; Boston Red Sox 1946–1947; Chicago White Sox 1947; Philadelphia Athletics 1948

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified batters

150

76.7

643

82.5

584

88.3

25.2

136

43.7

62.1

27.2

87.4

RBI

84.5

54.4

6.8

37.9

.233

5.8

OBP

.302

5.8

SLG

.397

40.8

OPS

.699

19.4

wRC+

89.1

20.4

OPS+

93.8

27.2

wOBA

.326

15.5

sWAR

-0.1

5.8

of 104 qualified 1947 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

123.4

OPS+

123.7

84.4

sWAR

31.7

96.8

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
1934	3	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	.167	.286	.167	.452	29.5	20.2	.242	0.0
1937	104	417	375	72	115	18	3	35	103	41	52	3	2	.307	.375	.651	1.026	146.4	152.5	.443	4.3
1938	135	557	463	85	138	27	2	33	127	92	74	1	2	.298	.417	.579	.995	138.5	140.8	.443	5.3
1939	102	376	329	66	101	16	1	20	68	41	50	5	0	.307	.387	.544	.931	127.8	130.3	.416	2.9
1940	155	685	588	105	186	46	6	33	134	89	88	3	2	.316	.410	.583	.993	146.3	146.2	.436	5.0
1941	155	687	590	91	153	29	3	27	111	92	88	3	1	.259	.360	.456	.816	106.7	106.8	.375	1.5
1942	153	653	577	81	150	26	4	21	90	73	71	3	3	.260	.343	.428	.771	109.1	110.0	.362	1.5
1943	155	661	571	90	155	22	11	34	118	84	88	5	5	.271	.366	.527	.893	154.4	153.6	.414	5.0
1944	151	652	583	77	161	27	7	18	98	68	73	5	3	.276	.353	.439	.792	122.4	121.7	.372	2.6
1945	155	655	595	71	157	25	5	18	87	60	85	6	6	.264	.331	.413	.745	110.0	111.4	.353	1.5
1946	154	669	579	78	160	30	6	17	119	86	93	3	2	.276	.371	.437	.808	123.3	119.8	.377	2.7
1947	150	643	584	56	136	25	4	21	91	58	87	1	0	.233	.302	.397	.699	89.1	93.8	.326	-0.1
1948	31	58	51	4	8	0	0	0	6	7	15	0	0	.157	.259	.157	.415	13.6	12.2	.223	-0.5

Career totals

1,603

6,720

5,891

876

1,621

291

277

208th-most career HR

RBI

1,152

192nd-most career RBI

792

279th-most career BB

867

.2752

OBP

.3622

428th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4833

203rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8455

222nd-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	BB	TB
1941-09-01	BAL @ DET Gameday	5	3	4	0	3	5	0	13
1937-08-31	MIN @ DET Gameday	4	2	4	0	2	7	1	10
1938-08-29	DET @ BOS Gameday	6	3	4	0	2	6	0	10
1946-07-27	BOS @ BAL Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	10	1	10
1943-08-15	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	3	1	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1934-04-17	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-18	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-19	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-20	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-24	CWS @ DET 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

7× 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.