MLB / Players

Hal Jeffcoat

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 185 lb

BornSeptember 6, 1924 · West Columbia, SC, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1948

Final gameAugust 6, 1959

Seasons12 (1948–1959)

Chicago Cubs 1948–1955; Cincinnati Redlegs 1956–1959; St. Louis Cardinals 1959

Percentile snapshot

1948 season — qualified batters

134

35.5

512

30.1

473

38.7

26.9

132

45.2

23.7

26.9

33.3

RBI

20.4

15.1

7.5

75.3

41.9

.279

39.8

OBP

.315

11.8

SLG

.355

17.2

OPS

.670

wRC+

80.4

11.8

OPS+

83.7

16.1

wOBA

.310

8.6

sWAR

0.6

19.4

of 94 qualified 1948 batters (min 480 PA)

1957 season — qualified pitchers

50.9

69.1

43.6

23.6

54.5

SHO

7.3

236

12.7

104

10.9

83.6

3.6

7.3

207.0

47.3

ERA

4.52

7.3

WHIP

1.362

23.6

K/9

2.74

1.8

FIP

4.49

1.8

FIP-

110.0

9.1

ERA+

90.3

12.7

sWAR

1.7

25.5

of 56 qualified 1957 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.0

81.3

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
1948	134	512	473	53	132	16	4	4	42	24	68	8	0	.279	.315	.355	.670	80.4	83.7	.310	0.6
1949	108	388	363	43	89	18	6	2	26	20	48	12	0	.245	.286	.344	.631	65.3	69.9	.289	-0.4
1950	66	187	179	21	42	13	1	2	18	6	23	7	0	.235	.259	.352	.611	50.9	59.0	.272	-0.8
1951	113	299	278	44	76	20	2	4	27	16	23	8	4	.273	.315	.403	.718	86.3	89.8	.324	0.3
1952	102	320	297	29	65	17	2	4	30	15	40	7	2	.219	.259	.330	.589	53.0	60.7	.270	-0.6
1953	106	207	183	22	43	3	1	4	22	21	26	5	0	.235	.314	.328	.642	64.9	65.3	.296	-0.1
1954	56	34	31	13	8	2	1	1	6	1	7	2	0	.258	.265	.484	.749	74.4	88.9	.311	0.1
1955	52	27	23	3	4	0	0	1	1	2	9	0	0	.174	.240	.304	.544	40.5	42.7	.249	2.4
1956	49	60	54	5	8	2	0	0	5	3	20	0	1	.148	.193	.185	.378	-9.9	0.2	.179	1.9
1957	53	83	69	13	14	3	1	4	11	5	20	0	0	.203	.267	.449	.716	81.9	83.6	.313	1.7
1958	50	10	9	2	5	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	.556	.600	.556	1.156	225.6	201.9	.528	1.3
1959	29	4	4	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.250	.250	.500	.750	85.8	91.5	.322	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1954	43	3	5	6	7	1	0	110	60	58	35	12	104.0	5.19	1.615	3.03	5.03	121.0	80.1	0.1
1955	50	1	8	6	6	0	0	107	33	53	32	5	100.7	2.95	1.589	2.86	4.02	98.1	138.8	2.4
1956	38	16	8	2	2	2	0	189	73	55	55	12	171.0	3.84	1.427	2.89	3.55	89.7	103.2	1.9
1957	37	31	12	13	0	10	1	236	104	46	63	29	207.0	4.52	1.362	2.74	4.49	110.0	90.3	1.7
1958	49	0	6	8	9	0	0	76	31	26	35	8	75.0	3.72	1.360	4.20	4.08	98.2	111.7	1.3
1959	28	0	0	2	1	0	0	54	26	19	19	7	39.3	5.95	1.856	4.35	5.42	132.0	68.9	-0.4

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

918

2,131

1,963

249

487

RBI

188

114

289

.2481

OBP

.2908

SLG

.3546

OPS

.6454

Pitching

G (P)

245

SHO

697

SO (P)

239

BB allowed

257

ERA

4.222

WHIP

1.4763

K/9

3.09

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
1953-08-26	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	1	8
1949-07-27	LAD @ CHC Gameday	5	1	3	0	2	0	1	0	7
1949-05-29	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	0	1	0	6
1948-08-24	SF @ CHC Gameday	5	1	3	1	1	0	1	0	6
1954-04-17	STL @ CHC Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	1	3	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1957-06-09	CIN @ LAD Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	3	9	0
1956-09-17	CIN @ LAD Gameday	7.0	9	3	3	2	8	1
1956-08-15	CIN @ CHC Gameday	12.0	10	3	3	3	6	1
1956-08-31	CHC @ CIN Gameday	9.0	6	3	3	2	6	3
1957-04-23	CIN @ STL Gameday	9.0	9	4	2	6	6	0

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.