MLB / Players

Russ Van Atta

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 184 lb

BornJune 21, 1906 · Augusta, NJ, USA

MLB debutApril 25, 1933

Final gameMay 11, 1939

Seasons7 (1933–1939)

New York Yankees 1933–1935; St. Louis Browns 1935–1939

Percentile snapshot

1935 season — qualified pitchers

100

33.7

46.3

4.2

84.2

3.2

SHO

206

44.2

103

21.1

13.7

78.9

45.3

175.0

46.3

ERA

5.30

18.9

WHIP

1.697

10.5

K/9

4.63

74.7

FIP

4.42

42.1

FIP-

94.3

67.4

ERA+

88.4

24.2

sWAR

0.5

22.1

of 96 qualified 1935 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

0.4

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1933	26	67	60	8	17	2	0	0	7	2	8	0	.283	.306	.317	.623	69.1	70.8	.291	1.6
1934	28	30	29	5	6	0	1	1	3	0	4	0	.207	.207	.379	.586	44.3	54.2	.257	-1.0
1935	58	50	43	5	9	2	0	0	4	1	4	0	.209	.227	.256	.483	10.9	21.4	.224	0.5
1936	53	29	29	1	5	2	0	0	1	0	8	0	.172	.172	.241	.414	-13.5	-1.4	.185	-0.4
1937	16	15	13	3	6	0	0	1	1	2	2	0	.462	.533	.692	1.226	204.4	201.5	.542	0.4
1938	25	33	30	2	4	2	0	0	1	0	7	1	.133	.133	.200	.333	-33.7	-18.7	.148	-0.3
1939	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.0	-100.0	.000	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1933	26	22	12	4	1	10	2	160	73	63	76	8	157.0	4.18	1.420	4.36	3.95	98.5	95.8	1.6
1934	28	9	3	5	0	0	0	107	62	46	39	3	88.0	6.34	1.739	3.99	4.35	104.2	65.8	-1.0
1935	58	17	9	16	3	1	0	206	103	91	90	10	175.0	5.30	1.697	4.63	4.42	94.3	88.4	0.5
1936	52	9	4	7	2	2	0	164	90	68	59	9	122.7	6.60	1.891	4.33	5.19	98.0	80.2	-0.4
1937	16	6	1	2	0	1	0	74	36	32	34	2	58.7	5.52	1.807	5.22	4.05	84.8	86.4	0.4
1938	25	12	4	7	0	3	1	118	70	61	35	7	104.0	6.06	1.721	3.03	5.11	103.5	81.4	-0.3
1939	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	9	9	7	6	0	7.0	11.57	2.286	7.71	4.85	101.3	41.4	-0.4

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

208

226

206

RBI

.2282

OBP

.2464

SLG

.3058

OPS

.5522

Pitching

G (P)

207

SHO

712

SO (P)

339

BB allowed

368

ERA

5.597

WHIP

1.6930

K/9

4.28

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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1937-05-11	MIN @ BAL Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	1	5
1933-04-25	NYY @ MIN Gameday	4	3	4	0	0	1	4
1934-07-03	BOS @ NYY Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	1	4
1934-06-05	NYY @ BOS Gameday	3	1	1	1	0	1	3
1933-06-30	NYY @ CLE Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1933-06-21	NYY @ BAL Gameday	7.1	10	2	2	2	9	1
1933-08-18	NYY @ BAL Gameday	9.0	8	3	3	2	8	0
1937-06-10	MIN @ BAL Gameday	8.0	8	3	2	4	8	0
1933-06-04	ATH @ NYY Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	3	7	1
1933-06-25	NYY @ DET Gameday	6.0	2	0	0	3	7	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.