Gentry Jessup

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornJuly 11, 1914 · Westfield, NC, USA

Seasons9 (1940–1948)

Birmingham Black Barons 1940–1941; Chicago American Giants 1941–1942; Birmingham Black Barons 1943; Chicago American Giants 1943–1948

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified pitchers

13.1

23.8

22.6

27.4

SHO

26.2

84.5

82.1

76.2

27.4

92.9

79.0

22.6

ERA

3.19

54.8

WHIP

1.127

90.5

K/9

4.90

76.2

FIP

3.69

38.1

FIP-

87.0

72.6

ERA+

132.9

sWAR

1.6

34.5

of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 74 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.9

82.7

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1940	8	13	13	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-82.7	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1941	6	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	21.2	18.8	.191	0.0
1942	5	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-87.6	-100.0	.000	-0.4
1943	17	48	47	2	14	2	1	3	1	1	.298	.313	.383	.695	107.6	112.8	.329	2.0
1944	14	44	42	3	7	2	0	2	1	1	.167	.186	.214	.400	23.2	24.0	.194	1.5
1945	12	32	31	3	6	0	0	2	0	0	.194	.194	.194	.387	19.5	13.5	.182	1.6
1946	8	23	23	1	3	0	0	0	0	2	.130	.130	.130	.261	-16.4	-23.0	.126	1.4
1947	9	19	19	1	4	2	0	3	0	0	.211	.211	.316	.526	39.9	40.7	.242	1.2
1948	4	12	11	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	.273	.333	.364	.697	87.9	86.5	.330	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1940	8	6	1	4	0	1	0	43	21	17	18	1	34.7	5.45	1.731	4.67	4.63	112.0	75.8	-0.3
1941	6	3	0	1	0	1	0	19	9	13	12	0	18.3	4.42	1.745	5.89	5.22	140.5	84.0	0.0
1942	5	1	0	2	0	0	0	21	11	5	4	0	13.0	7.62	2.000	2.77	4.08	100.7	53.2	-0.4
1943	15	11	7	6	1	9	0	102	36	30	50	1	102.3	3.17	1.290	4.40	3.72	99.0	118.8	2.0
1944	11	11	5	6	0	10	0	89	28	21	48	0	93.3	2.70	1.179	4.63	2.94	87.5	124.7	1.5
1945	10	10	6	4	0	7	1	65	28	24	43	0	79.0	3.19	1.127	4.90	3.69	87.0	132.9	1.6
1946	5	5	2	2	0	5	1	38	12	12	28	0	51.0	2.12	.980	4.94	3.68	89.8	193.6	1.4
1947	5	5	2	1	0	2	2	22	10	20	24	0	36.3	2.48	1.156	5.94	4.47	90.7	198.9	1.2
1948	4	3	1	3	0	3	0	28	16	10	14	1	24.0	6.00	1.583	5.25	4.69	96.9	80.7	0.0

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

201

195

RBI

.1949

OBP

.2071

SLG

.2410

OPS

.4481

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

452

SO (P)

241

BB allowed

152

ERA

3.405

WHIP

1.2810

K/9

4.80

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
1943-08-29	CAG @ MEM Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	0	4
1943-06-21	CAG @ CLB Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	1	3
1944-05-30	CAG @ KCM Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	2	3
1945-08-12	CAG @ HOM Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	1	2
1944-08-20	MEM @ CAG Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1946-05-12	IC @ CAG Gameday	20.0	13	3	2	0	13
1947-05-23	KCM @ CAG Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	1	10
1944-05-30	CAG @ KCM Gameday	9.0	10	3	3	1	8
1941-08-21	CAG @ BEG Gameday	8.0	7	4	3	6	8
1944-07-05	MEM @ CAG Gameday	9.0	7	3	2	2	7

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.

Honors

5× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.