MLB / Players

Gordon Jones

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb
BornApril 2, 1930 · Portland, OR, USA
MLB debutAugust 6, 1954
Final gameSeptember 11, 1965
Seasons11 (1954–1965)

St. Louis Cardinals 1954–1956; New York Giants 1957; San Francisco Giants 1958–1959; Baltimore Orioles 1960–1961; Kansas City Athletics 1962; Houston Colt .45's 1964; Houston Astros 1965

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
2.2
70.8

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
19541129240310011400.125.160.167.327-33.1-14.9.1532.7
19551519142100011300.071.125.071.196-56.7-46.2.103-0.7
19565220000000100.000.000.000.000-128.7-100.0.000-0.2
195710220100000000.500.500.5001.000183.1170.9.453-0.2
195811770000000200.000.000.000.000-130.6-100.0.0000.7
195931540000000100.000.000.000.000-121.5-100.0.0000.1
196029550200010200.400.400.400.800123.4120.7.3680.2
196130000000000000.0
196221650000010000.000.000.000.000-132.2-100.0.000-0.6
196434440100000200.250.250.250.50041.446.3.2290.0
196510000000000000.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
195411104404278181948381.02.001.1985.332.4559.4206.52.7
195515914000663728461057.05.841.6497.264.50110.169.9-0.7
1956510200014756211.35.561.6764.764.79126.568.1-0.2
19571000100016835111.76.171.6293.863.8097.962.8-0.2
19581113110033858230.32.371.2532.373.4387.7164.70.7
19593103220045211929643.74.331.4665.984.45118.786.70.1
19602901120059271330955.04.421.3094.914.20111.385.50.2
19613000100530435.05.401.0007.208.70226.871.10.0
196221032600312314281032.76.341.3787.716.07145.166.0-0.6
19643400100058231428350.04.141.4405.043.2597.880.30.0
19651000000000001.00.00.0000.002.6477.90.1

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
171
PA
79
AB
67
R
2
H
8
2B
1
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
4
BB
2
SO
15
SB
0
BA
.1194
OBP
.1429
SLG
.1343
OPS
.2772

Pitching

G (P)
171
GS
21
W
15
L
18
SV
12
CG
4
SHO
2
IP
379
SO (P)
232
BB allowed
120
ERA
4.159
WHIP
1.3864
K/9
5.51

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
1954-09-03CHC @ STL Gameday302100003
1960-05-21BAL @ DET Gameday202000102
1954-08-06STL @ PIT Gameday201000001
1955-05-30CHC @ STL Gameday201000001
1957-05-02CIN @ SF Gameday101000001

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1955-05-15PIT @ STL Gameday8.2311491
1954-08-25PIT @ STL Gameday9.0500170
1954-08-30SF @ STL Gameday9.01043470
1954-09-03CHC @ STL Gameday8.01033070
1955-05-26STL @ CHC Gameday5.0433371

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.