Jack Banta
Brooklyn Dodgers 1947–1950
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -130.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1948 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -130.8 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1949 | 48 | 50 | 46 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .109 | .163 | .130 | .294 | -32.8 | -21.2 | .147 | 2.6 |
| 1950 | 16 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .231 | .167 | .397 | 0.1 | 6.0 | .197 | 0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7.7 | 7.04 | 1.435 | 3.52 | 5.44 | 130.8 | 59.0 | -0.2 |
| 1948 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3.3 | 8.10 | 3.000 | 2.70 | 6.47 | 160.5 | 49.7 | -0.1 |
| 1949 | 48 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 125 | 57 | 68 | 97 | 12 | 152.3 | 3.37 | 1.267 | 5.73 | 3.74 | 90.5 | 122.7 | 2.6 |
| 1950 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 20 | 36 | 15 | 2 | 41.3 | 4.35 | 1.815 | 3.27 | 5.19 | 124.2 | 95.9 | 0.3 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-06-19 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1949-05-31 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1950-05-30 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1950-06-09 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1949-06-02 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-09-07 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 8.2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 0 |
| 1949-09-11 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 6.0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 2 |
| 1949-07-05 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 6.1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 1949-09-20 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 1949-08-25 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 8.1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 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.