Deacon Jones
Chicago White Sox 1962–1963; Chicago White Sox 1966
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 18 | 36 | 28 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .321 | .394 | .393 | .787 | 102.7 | 115.2 | .337 | 0.1 |
| 1963 | 17 | 19 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .188 | .316 | .500 | .816 | 116.7 | 129.0 | .340 | 0.1 |
| 1966 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .400 | .400 | .800 | 143.4 | 140.5 | .365 | 0.0 |
Career totals
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 | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963-09-28 | TEX @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1963-06-02 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1962-09-26 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1962-09-15 | CWS @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1962-09-08 | TEX @ CWS Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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.