Elmer Jacobs

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 165 lb

BornAugust 10, 1892 · Salem, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 23, 1914

Final gameSeptember 13, 1927

Seasons9 (1914–1927)

Philadelphia Phillies 1914; Pittsburgh Pirates 1916–1917; Philadelphia Phillies 1918; Pittsburgh Pirates 1918; Philadelphia Phillies 1919; St. Louis Cardinals 1919–1920; Chicago Cubs 1924–1925; Chicago White Sox 1927

Percentile snapshot

1924 season — qualified pitchers

56.9

58.5

22.3

51.5

63.1

SHO

43.8

181

44.6

34.6

16.2

41.5

19.2

190.3

62.3

ERA

3.74

58.5

WHIP

1.329

60.8

K/9

2.36

21.5

FIP

4.21

43.1

FIP-

109.4

15.4

ERA+

103.0

38.5

sWAR

1.7

39.2

of 131 qualified 1924 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

89.4

5.8

sWAR

5.2

79.9

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1914	14	15	14	1	0	0	0	0	1	7	0	.000	.067	.000	.067	-92.0	-80.1	.051	-0.9
1916	34	45	40	3	3	0	1	1	3	13	0	.075	.159	.125	.284	-21.6	-13.2	.152	0.7
1917	38	72	67	3	12	2	0	0	1	26	0	.179	.203	.209	.412	12.9	24.5	.199	2.0
1918	26	49	45	1	8	0	1	2	2	17	0	.178	.213	.222	.435	17.6	28.4	.213	1.3
1919	34	72	68	5	16	4	1	1	2	13	0	.235	.257	.324	.581	62.0	72.0	.273	1.5
1920	23	30	26	2	5	1	0	2	1	7	0	.192	.222	.231	.453	24.3	32.1	.217	-1.4
1924	38	63	54	3	6	0	0	5	3	13	0	.111	.158	.111	.269	-34.4	-26.5	.137	1.7
1925	18	13	13	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.231	.231	.231	.462	10.0	18.1	.212	0.0
1927	25	25	20	4	3	0	0	2	1	5	1	.150	.190	.150	.340	-12.7	-9.4	.170	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1914	14	7	1	3	0	1	0	65	27	20	17	2	50.7	4.80	1.678	3.02	3.46	118.3	61.0	-0.9
1916	34	17	6	10	0	8	0	151	50	38	46	2	153.0	2.94	1.235	2.71	2.70	101.1	90.7	0.7
1917	38	25	6	19	2	10	1	214	71	76	58	3	227.3	2.81	1.276	2.30	3.11	111.8	99.0	2.0
1918	26	18	9	6	1	12	4	122	48	56	35	3	146.3	2.95	1.216	2.15	3.32	112.8	99.8	1.3
1919	34	23	9	16	1	17	1	231	79	69	68	7	214.0	3.32	1.402	2.86	3.35	110.3	91.5	1.5
1920	23	9	4	8	1	1	0	91	45	33	21	2	77.7	5.21	1.597	2.43	3.86	127.0	58.3	-1.4
1924	38	22	11	12	1	13	1	181	79	72	50	9	190.3	3.74	1.329	2.36	4.21	109.4	103.0	1.7
1925	18	4	2	3	1	1	1	63	32	22	19	9	55.7	5.17	1.527	3.07	5.77	134.8	82.7	0.0
1927	25	8	2	4	0	2	1	105	38	37	22	3	74.3	4.60	1.910	2.66	4.65	115.9	87.1	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

250

384

347

RBI

101

.1614

OBP

.1983

SLG

.1988

OPS

.3971

Pitching

G (P)

250

133

SHO

1,189

SO (P)

336

BB allowed

423

ERA

3.549

487th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3840

K/9

2.54

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
1919-09-23	CHC @ STL Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	0	4
1917-06-04	PHI @ PIT Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	0	3
1917-07-13	PIT @ LAD Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	3
1919-05-19	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	0	3
1918-08-24	PHI @ PIT Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	2	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1924-07-14	SF @ CHC Gameday	8.0	11	7	7	3	8	2
1914-05-29	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	8	1	1	2	7	0
1919-08-18	STL @ ATL Gameday	7.0	6	0	0	3	7	0
1918-08-05	STL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	7	6	0
1919-05-13	PIT @ PHI Gameday	9.0	3	2	2	4	5	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.