MLB / Players

Russ Ford

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornApril 25, 1883 · Brandon, MB, CAN

MLB debutApril 28, 1909

Final gameAugust 16, 1915

Seasons7 (1909–1915)

New York Highlanders 1909–1912; New York Yankees 1913; Buffalo Buffeds 1914; Buffalo Blues 1915

Percentile snapshot

1914 season — qualified pitchers

33.6

43.7

87.4

86.6

97.5

70.6

SHO

80.7

190

58.8

82.4

123

73.9

0.8

247.3

ERA

1.82

WHIP

.934

99.2

K/9

4.48

62.2

FIP

2.88

47.9

FIP-

89.8

75.6

ERA+

176.2

97.5

sWAR

6.2

93.3

of 120 qualified 1914 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

122.5

sWAR

26.0

95.6

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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
1909	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.8	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1910	36	112	96	8	20	1	5	0	7	9	33	1	0	.208	.283	.323	.606	82.7	84.6	.299	7.3
1911	37	109	102	10	20	2	1	0	8	3	31	2	0	.196	.219	.235	.454	16.5	22.7	.219	6.6
1912	40	125	112	15	32	8	0	1	8	6	31	2	1	.286	.322	.384	.706	92.1	96.3	.337	3.5
1913	33	84	74	5	12	1	1	0	3	7	29	5	0	.162	.244	.203	.447	28.6	29.5	.232	3.4
1914	35	90	78	10	10	1	0	0	7	8	28	3	0	.128	.209	.141	.350	1.0	0.5	.186	6.2
1915	22	47	43	7	12	4	1	0	4	1	9	1	0	.279	.295	.419	.714	102.1	108.9	.332	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1909	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	4	2	0	3.0	9.00	2.667	6.00	7.95	314.1	28.1	-0.2
1910	36	33	26	6	1	29	8	194	55	70	209	4	299.7	1.65	.881	6.28	1.81	68.0	160.8	7.3
1911	37	33	22	11	0	26	1	251	71	76	158	3	281.3	2.27	1.162	5.05	2.78	78.2	156.7	6.6
1912	36	35	13	21	0	30	0	317	115	79	112	10	291.7	3.55	1.358	3.46	3.49	99.3	99.1	3.5
1913	33	28	12	18	2	15	1	244	70	58	72	9	237.0	2.66	1.274	2.73	3.16	105.4	112.8	3.4
1914	35	26	21	6	6	19	5	190	50	41	123	11	247.3	1.82	.934	4.48	2.88	89.8	176.2	6.2
1915	21	15	5	9	0	7	0	140	64	48	34	7	127.3	4.52	1.476	2.40	3.88	127.9	67.0	-0.8

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

204

568

506

106

RBI

161

.2095

OBP

.2620

SLG

.2806

OPS

.5426

Pitching

G (P)

199

170

126

308th-most career CG

SHO

396th-most career SHO

1,487

SO (P)

710

BB allowed

376

ERA

2.590

56th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1537

84th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.30

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	RBI	TB
1912-08-08	NYY @ CLE Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	0	5
1911-07-09	NYY @ CWS Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2	4
1910-10-06	NYY @ ATH Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	1	4
1910-07-14	CLE @ NYY Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	0	4
1910-08-30	CLE @ NYY Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	BB	SO
1910-07-19	BAL @ NYY Gameday	9.0	1	1	4	11
1910-08-30	CLE @ NYY Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	11
1910-08-09	NYY @ BAL Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	10
1910-08-19	BAL @ NYY Gameday	9.0	6	0	4	10
1910-04-21	NYY @ ATH Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	9

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.