Tom Young
Kansas City Monarchs 1926–1931; St. Louis Stars 1931; Detroit Wolves 1932; Homestead Grays 1932; Kansas City Monarchs 1932–1935; Chicago American Giants 1936; New York Cubans 1936; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1937; Kansas City Monarchs 1941; Newark Eagles 1941; Philadelphia Stars 1941
Percentile snapshot
1935 season — qualified batters
of 117 qualified 1935 batters (min 49 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 36 | 117 | 98 | 18 | 31 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .316 | .396 | .449 | .845 | 113.4 | 117.4 | .384 | 0.8 |
| 1927 | 75 | 285 | 259 | 37 | 72 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 53 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .278 | .325 | .413 | .738 | 95.8 | 97.6 | .338 | 1.4 |
| 1928 | 39 | 123 | 105 | 11 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .267 | .325 | .352 | .677 | 86.5 | 84.7 | .317 | 0.5 |
| 1929 | 44 | 150 | 136 | 36 | 49 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 35 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 0 | .360 | .400 | .603 | 1.003 | 148.6 | 157.9 | .442 | 1.8 |
| 1930 | 55 | 211 | 181 | 40 | 57 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 30 | 24 | 8 | 16 | 0 | .315 | .404 | .486 | .890 | 132.4 | 135.9 | .406 | 2.0 |
| 1931 | 30 | 107 | 98 | 18 | 29 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | .296 | .355 | .398 | .753 | 107.0 | 107.6 | .357 | 0.7 |
| 1932 | 46 | 191 | 170 | 30 | 56 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 37 | 17 | 1 | 7 | 0 | .329 | .394 | .406 | .799 | 117.1 | 117.4 | .382 | 1.5 |
| 1933 | 5 | 16 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .133 | .188 | .133 | .321 | 0.7 | -13.3 | .164 | -0.1 |
| 1934 | 6 | 24 | 21 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .190 | .292 | .286 | .577 | 72.2 | 65.0 | .276 | 0.0 |
| 1935 | 13 | 56 | 50 | 9 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .300 | .375 | .380 | .755 | 108.3 | 106.3 | .348 | 0.4 |
| 1936 | 16 | 20 | 20 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .150 | .150 | .150 | .300 | -11.9 | -23.2 | .139 | -0.2 |
| 1937 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .273 | .200 | .473 | 37.7 | 24.0 | .234 | 0.0 |
| 1941 | 17 | 60 | 48 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .208 | .345 | .250 | .595 | 85.5 | 70.0 | .306 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-05-31 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1930-06-14 | BEG @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1930-06-01 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1930-08-30 | KCM @ DTS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1931-06-15 | IND @ SLS Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-05-10 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-05-11 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-05-11 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-05-12 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-05-14 | KCM @ BEG 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.