MLB / Players

Bob Jones

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornDecember 2, 1889 · Clayton, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1917

Final gameSeptember 24, 1925

Seasons9 (1917–1925)

Detroit Tigers 1917–1925

Percentile snapshot

1922 season — qualified batters

124

49.7

522

50.3

455

49.7

57.2

117

43.4

25.8

50.9

45.9

RBI

41.5

52.8

46.5

.257

16.4

OBP

.314

17.6

SLG

.325

15.1

OPS

.640

15.1

wRC+

67.6

10.7

OPS+

68.5

13.2

wOBA

.303

15.7

sWAR

-0.2

8.2

of 160 qualified 1922 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

72.1

4.4

OPS+

74.7

5.2

sWAR

0.8

62.4

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
1917	46	83	77	16	12	1	2	0	2	4	8	3	0	.156	.198	.221	.418	16.5	26.7	.208	-0.5
1918	74	320	287	43	79	14	4	0	21	17	16	7	0	.275	.320	.352	.672	101.5	105.2	.330	1.2
1919	127	497	439	37	114	18	6	1	57	34	39	11	0	.260	.314	.335	.649	80.2	82.2	.312	0.7
1920	81	299	265	35	66	6	3	1	18	22	13	3	4	.249	.309	.306	.615	64.2	64.1	.296	-0.2
1921	141	618	554	82	168	23	9	1	72	37	24	8	9	.303	.348	.383	.731	85.0	86.0	.341	1.1
1922	124	522	455	65	117	10	6	3	44	36	18	8	5	.257	.314	.325	.640	67.6	68.5	.303	-0.2
1923	100	431	372	51	93	15	4	1	40	29	13	7	6	.250	.306	.320	.626	64.0	65.8	.300	-0.3
1924	110	432	393	52	107	27	4	0	47	20	20	1	5	.272	.308	.361	.669	67.8	72.3	.314	-0.2
1925	50	164	148	18	35	6	0	0	15	9	5	1	1	.236	.280	.277	.557	40.0	42.2	.267	-0.6

Career totals

853

3,366

2,990

399

791

120

RBI

316

208

156

.2645

OBP

.3141

SLG

.3371

OPS

.6512

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	RBI	TB
1918-07-25	ATH @ DET Gameday	5	2	3	2	1	0	7
1924-07-01	CWS @ DET Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	2	6
1923-07-31	DET @ MIN Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	4	6
1921-05-23	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	2	6
1919-07-24	DET @ CLE Gameday	4	0	3	1	1	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1917-04-11	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1917-04-12	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1917-04-14	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1917-04-15	CWS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1917-04-16	CWS @ DET 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.