MLB / Players

Al Javery

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 183 lb

BornJune 5, 1918 · Worcester, MA, USA

MLB debutApril 23, 1940

Final gameMay 8, 1946

Seasons7 (1940–1946)

Boston Bees 1940; Boston Braves 1941–1946

Percentile snapshot

1944 season — qualified pitchers

88.4

42.1

1.1

89.5

49.5

SHO

73.7

248

10.5

100

4.2

118

1.1

137

94.7

14.7

254.0

88.4

ERA

3.54

36.8

WHIP

1.441

18.9

K/9

4.85

89.5

FIP

3.48

47.4

FIP-

93.0

65.3

ERA+

105.7

42.1

sWAR

2.8

56.8

of 96 qualified 1944 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

92.2

10.4

sWAR

5.7

80.9

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1940	29	26	23	1	2	0	0	1	2	10	.087	.160	.087	.247	-33.1	-28.9	.134	-1.0
1941	34	60	58	6	6	0	0	4	1	19	.103	.119	.103	.222	-52.0	-36.3	.108	-0.3
1942	42	97	86	6	9	1	0	1	2	30	.105	.125	.116	.241	-49.8	-29.2	.118	2.9
1943	41	117	104	4	17	3	0	3	2	34	.163	.179	.192	.372	-9.4	8.0	.178	3.2
1944	40	83	79	4	12	1	1	2	0	21	.152	.152	.190	.342	-25.3	-6.0	.157	2.8
1945	17	29	29	3	6	0	0	0	0	10	.207	.207	.207	.414	2.8	14.8	.195	-1.4
1946	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-142.2	-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
1940	29	4	2	4	1	1	0	99	51	36	42	2	83.3	5.51	1.620	4.54	3.42	92.3	67.3	-1.0
1941	34	23	10	11	1	9	1	181	77	65	54	5	160.7	4.31	1.531	3.02	3.62	102.2	82.2	-0.3
1942	42	37	12	16	0	19	5	251	88	78	85	8	261.0	3.03	1.261	2.93	2.96	89.5	109.2	2.9
1943	41	35	17	16	0	19	5	288	108	99	134	13	303.0	3.21	1.277	3.98	3.17	95.2	103.7	3.2
1944	40	33	10	19	3	11	3	248	100	118	137	12	254.0	3.54	1.441	4.85	3.48	93.0	105.7	2.8
1945	17	14	2	7	0	2	1	92	54	51	18	4	77.3	6.28	1.849	2.09	4.82	126.1	60.9	-1.4
1946	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	5	5	5	0	0	3.3	13.50	3.000	0.00	6.82	198.5	25.4	-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

205

413

380

RBI

124

.1368

OBP

.1525

SLG

.1553

OPS

.3078

Pitching

G (P)

205

147

SHO

396th-most career SHO

1,143

SO (P)

470

BB allowed

452

ERA

3.804

WHIP

1.4142

K/9

3.70

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	TB
1943-09-16	PHI @ ATL Gameday	3	1	2	2	0	4
1942-08-02	CIN @ ATL Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	3
1944-07-02	ATL @ PIT Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	3
1943-08-20	CIN @ ATL Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	2
1945-07-24	ATL @ PIT Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-09-19	PHI @ ATL Gameday	14.0	10	5	3	6	13	1
1944-05-10	ATL @ PIT Gameday	7.0	3	1	1	2	12	0
1943-06-23	PHI @ ATL Gameday	11.0	11	3	0	1	10	0
1943-09-25	ATL @ CIN Gameday	8.0	9	4	4	3	8	0
1944-09-17	LAD @ ATL Gameday	8.0	7	3	1	4	8	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.

Honors

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.