Russ Derry
New York Yankees 1944–1945; Philadelphia Athletics 1946; St. Louis Cardinals 1949
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 38 | 135 | 114 | 14 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 20 | 19 | 1 | 0 | .254 | .366 | .386 | .752 | 117.4 | 112.7 | .363 | 0.6 |
| 1945 | 78 | 286 | 253 | 37 | 57 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 45 | 31 | 49 | 1 | 0 | .225 | .312 | .419 | .731 | 105.7 | 108.2 | .346 | 1.1 |
| 1946 | 69 | 214 | 184 | 17 | 38 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 27 | 54 | 0 | 0 | .207 | .311 | .304 | .616 | 73.2 | 72.4 | .300 | -0.3 |
| 1949 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -130.0 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-04-29 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| 1945-04-17 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 1945-07-04 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1946-05-09 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1945-06-28 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-04-18 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-04-19 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-04-19 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-04-22 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-04-25 | ATH @ NYY 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.