Buck Jordan

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornJanuary 16, 1907 · Cooleemee, NC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 15, 1927

Final gameOctober 2, 1938

Seasons10 (1927–1938)

New York Giants 1927; New York Giants 1929; Washington Senators 1931; Boston Braves 1932–1935; Boston Bees 1936–1937; Cincinnati Reds 1937–1938; Philadelphia Phillies 1938

Percentile snapshot

1936 season — qualified batters

138

44.2

610

555

59.2

50.8

179

47.5

44.2

28.3

RBI

47.5

50.8

65.8

15.8

39.2

.323

71.7

OBP

.375

51.7

SLG

.405

42.5

OPS

.781

wRC+

117.0

62.5

OPS+

116.0

60.8

wOBA

.363

44.2

sWAR

2.1

58.3

of 121 qualified 1936 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

103.2

47.9

OPS+

104.1

50.8

sWAR

6.3

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
1927	5	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	-1.8	7.8	.186	0.0
1929	2	2	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	262.6	264.9	.640	0.0
1931	9	19	18	3	4	2	0	0	1	1	3	0	.222	.263	.333	.596	54.2	57.3	.275	-0.1
1932	49	219	212	27	68	12	3	2	29	4	5	1	.321	.333	.434	.767	106.8	109.2	.341	0.5
1933	152	643	588	77	168	29	9	4	46	34	22	4	.286	.327	.386	.713	110.4	111.8	.330	1.5
1934	124	535	489	68	152	26	9	2	58	35	19	3	.311	.358	.413	.771	112.9	112.9	.352	1.6
1935	130	491	470	62	131	24	5	5	35	19	17	3	.279	.307	.383	.690	87.7	90.2	.312	0.1
1936	138	610	555	81	179	27	5	3	66	45	22	2	.323	.375	.405	.781	117.0	116.0	.363	2.1
1937	106	353	324	46	91	14	3	1	28	25	14	6	.281	.332	.352	.684	89.9	90.0	.320	0.1
1938	96	339	317	31	95	18	1	0	18	19	4	1	.300	.339	.363	.702	88.4	89.4	.327	0.6

Career totals

811

3,216

2,980

396

890

153

RBI

281

182

109

.2987

242nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3401

SLG

.3906

OPS

.7307

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1936-05-06	ATL @ CHC Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	3	0	8
1932-08-17	ATL @ CHC Gameday	8	1	4	1	1	1	0	8
1933-09-08	ATL @ CHC Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	1	0	8
1936-08-25	ATL @ STL Gameday	6	3	5	2	0	5	1	7
1934-06-15	ATL @ STL Gameday	6	1	5	2	0	3	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1927-04-12	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-14	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-15	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-16	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-18	SF @ ATL 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.