MLB / Players

Billy Jurges

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornMay 9, 1908 · Bronx, NY, USA

MLB debutMay 4, 1931

Final gameSeptember 9, 1947

Seasons17 (1931–1947)

Chicago Cubs 1931–1938; New York Giants 1939–1945; Chicago Cubs 1946–1947

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified batters

136

57.2

544

55.8

481

54.3

39.9

110

44.2

27.5

22.5

RBI

34.8

39.9

18.1

31.9

.229

OBP

.310

23.9

SLG

.279

10.1

OPS

.589

14.5

wRC+

68.8

16.7

OPS+

68.8

15.9

wOBA

.293

17.4

sWAR

0.4

24.6

of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

82.9

13.5

OPS+

82.5

12.2

sWAR

16.7

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1931	88	335	293	34	59	15	5	0	23	25	41	2	.201	.264	.287	.551	43.5	47.3	.260	-1.0
1932	115	426	396	40	100	24	4	2	52	19	26	1	.253	.288	.348	.637	69.3	72.1	.288	0.3
1933	143	526	487	49	131	17	6	5	50	26	39	3	.269	.313	.359	.672	92.0	93.4	.313	2.0
1934	100	385	358	43	88	15	2	8	33	19	34	1	.246	.289	.366	.655	75.1	77.7	.298	0.5
1935	146	584	519	69	125	33	1	1	59	42	39	3	.241	.304	.314	.618	68.8	68.0	.289	0.4
1936	118	459	429	51	120	25	1	1	42	23	25	4	.280	.321	.350	.671	79.1	80.5	.312	0.9
1937	129	506	450	53	134	18	10	1	65	42	41	2	.298	.365	.389	.754	105.2	103.1	.352	2.6
1938	137	540	465	53	114	18	3	1	47	58	53	3	.245	.335	.303	.638	78.8	75.5	.309	1.1
1939	138	611	543	84	155	21	11	6	63	47	34	3	.285	.349	.398	.747	100.0	99.8	.347	2.7
1940	63	248	214	23	54	3	3	2	36	25	14	2	.252	.347	.322	.669	88.9	84.8	.321	0.8
1941	134	528	471	50	138	25	2	5	61	47	36	0	.293	.361	.386	.747	110.0	108.6	.354	3.1
1942	127	520	464	45	119	7	1	2	30	43	42	1	.256	.324	.289	.612	80.4	79.9	.300	1.2
1943	136	544	481	46	110	8	2	4	29	53	38	2	.229	.310	.279	.589	68.8	68.8	.293	0.4
1944	85	281	246	28	52	2	1	1	23	23	20	4	.211	.279	.240	.519	44.1	45.9	.255	-0.8
1945	61	201	176	22	57	3	1	3	24	24	11	2	.324	.405	.403	.808	126.4	122.1	.388	1.4
1946	82	270	221	26	49	9	2	0	17	43	28	3	.222	.351	.281	.631	90.7	83.0	.321	1.0
1947	14	49	40	5	8	2	0	1	2	9	9	0	.200	.347	.325	.672	89.1	82.6	.327	0.2

Career totals

1,816

399th-most career G

7,013

459th-most career PA

6,253

455th-most career AB

721

1,613

245

RBI

656

568

530

.2580

OBP

.3248

SLG

.3354

OPS

.6602

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	TB
1933-08-09	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	1	4	9
1942-07-17	SF @ PIT Gameday	6	1	4	1	0	1	4	8
1933-06-25	CHC @ ATL Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	1	4	7
1933-06-28	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	3	4	0	0	1	3	7
1939-07-05	SF @ ATL Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	0	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1931-04-14	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-15	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-16	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-17	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-18	STL @ CHC 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.

Honors

3× 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.