MLB / Players

Russ Wrightstone

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 176 lb

BornMarch 18, 1893 · Bowmansdale, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1920

Final gameSeptember 29, 1928

Seasons9 (1920–1928)

Philadelphia Phillies 1920–1927; New York Giants 1928; Philadelphia Phillies 1928

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified batters

141

591

72.8

533

76.9

52.1

163

79.3

65.1

34.9

68.6

RBI

75.7

36.1

52.1

32.5

.306

53.8

OBP

.365

51.5

SLG

.403

43.8

OPS

.769

47.3

wRC+

101.4

44.4

OPS+

100.4

43.8

wOBA

.359

46.7

sWAR

0.9

29.6

of 170 qualified 1927 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

95.3

32.3

OPS+

96.3

34.2

sWAR

7.6

83.8

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
1920	76	220	206	23	54	6	1	3	17	10	25	3	2	.262	.303	.345	.647	75.4	79.0	.306	0.2
1921	109	398	372	59	110	13	4	9	51	18	20	4	4	.296	.332	.425	.756	87.1	89.7	.343	0.6
1922	99	369	331	56	101	18	6	5	33	28	17	4	5	.305	.365	.441	.806	94.3	95.3	.370	1.2
1923	119	423	392	59	107	21	7	7	57	21	19	5	2	.273	.315	.416	.731	74.6	79.4	.333	0.3
1924	118	427	388	55	119	24	4	7	58	27	15	5	4	.307	.363	.443	.806	101.4	101.4	.369	1.7
1925	92	314	286	48	99	18	5	14	61	19	18	0	3	.346	.389	.591	.980	133.2	133.9	.430	2.2
1926	112	403	368	55	113	23	1	7	57	27	11	5	0	.307	.356	.432	.788	102.6	103.4	.364	1.1
1927	141	591	533	62	163	24	5	6	75	48	20	9	0	.306	.365	.403	.769	101.4	100.4	.359	0.9
1928	63	138	116	10	23	5	1	2	16	17	7	0	0	.198	.306	.310	.616	57.6	57.2	.297	-0.5

Career totals

929

3,283

2,992

427

889

152

RBI

425

215

152

.2971

266th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3487

SLG

.4308

OPS

.7795

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
1926-06-11	PIT @ PHI Gameday	6	3	4	2	1	1	7	0	11
1925-06-30	LAD @ PHI Gameday	6	3	4	0	1	1	3	0	9
1925-05-05	SF @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	5	0	9
1925-07-03	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	1	4	1	7
1927-04-28	PHI @ LAD Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	5	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1920-04-14	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-15	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-18	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-19	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-20	PHI @ SF 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.