MLB / Players

Cowboy Jones

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 160 lb
BornAugust 23, 1874 · Golden, CO, USA
MLB debutJune 24, 1898
Final gameJune 21, 1901
Seasons4 (1898–1901)

Cleveland Spiders 1898; St. Louis Perfectos 1899; St. Louis Cardinals 1900–1901

Percentile snapshot

1900 season — qualified pitchers

G
39
75.7
GS
36
83.8
W
13
37.8
L
19
8.1
SV
0
0
CG
29
75.7
SHO
3
78.4
H
334
16.2
ER
115
21.6
BB
82
27
SO
68
59.5
HR
10
13.5
IP
292.7
81.1
ERA
3.54
48.6
WHIP
1.421
40.5
K/9
2.09
29.7
FIP
3.84
18.9
FIP-
104.0
27
ERA+
104.5
50
sWAR
3.1
59.5

of 38 qualified 1900 pitchers (min 141 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
4.9
79.1

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
18989322812000131410.071.161.071.233-14.5-32.9.1370.9
18991234291530004400.172.273.276.54958.350.4.2751.1
1900391271171221020773700.179.226.214.43928.421.5.2173.1
190110312724110021100.148.233.259.49349.043.8.243-0.2

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1898994407076242926072.03.001.4583.253.4294.9120.10.9
1899121265090111342228185.33.591.5592.953.4288.8107.31.1
1900393613190293334115826810292.73.541.4212.093.84104.0104.53.1
19011092607097382225476.34.481.5592.953.95120.972.9-0.2

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

G
70
PA
224
AB
201
R
16
H
32
2B
4
3B
3
HR
0
RBI
8
BB
16
SO
66
SB
1
BA
.1592
OBP
.2248
SLG
.2090
OPS
.4338

Pitching

G (P)
70
GS
66
W
25
L
34
SV
0
CG
52
SHO
3
IP
526
SO (P)
147
BB allowed
155
ERA
3.608
WHIP
1.4687
K/9
2.51

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1901-06-04SF @ STL Gameday301010003
1901-05-22STL @ LAD Gameday301100002
1901-04-20CHC @ STL Gameday221000011
1901-04-24PIT @ STL Gameday201000001
1901-04-19CHC @ STL Gameday000000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1901-04-20CHC @ STL Gameday9.01599361
1901-04-24PIT @ STL Gameday9.01154241
1901-05-10STL @ CHC Gameday8.0744241
1901-06-21STL @ PHI Gameday8.0822131
1901-06-04SF @ STL Gameday7.0743430

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.