MLB / Players

Jack Coombs

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornNovember 18, 1882 · Le Grand, IA, USA

MLB debutJuly 5, 1906

Final gameJuly 18, 1920

Seasons14 (1906–1920)

Philadelphia Athletics 1906–1914; Brooklyn Robins 1915–1918; Detroit Tigers 1920

Percentile snapshot

1918 season — qualified pitchers

41.9

52.7

36.6

12.9

SHO

55.9

191

30.1

7.5

47.3

44.1

189.0

62.4

ERA

3.81

15.1

WHIP

1.270

40.9

K/9

2.10

11.8

FIP

3.33

22.6

FIP-

121.1

7.5

ERA+

72.2

8.6

sWAR

-0.8

3.2

of 94 qualified 1918 pitchers (min 126 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.2

34.5

sWAR

25.9

95.6

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1906	24	70	67	9	16	2	0	0	3	1	15	2	0	.239	.261	.269	.530	60.5	64.7	.256	2.4
1907	24	50	48	4	8	0	0	1	4	0	15	1	0	.167	.167	.229	.396	15.1	25.2	.188	0.2
1908	78	239	220	24	56	9	5	1	23	9	34	6	0	.255	.287	.355	.642	101.2	105.2	.309	3.1
1909	37	90	83	4	14	4	0	0	10	4	23	1	0	.169	.216	.217	.433	31.0	35.8	.217	2.6
1910	46	142	132	20	29	3	0	0	9	7	23	3	0	.220	.270	.242	.512	63.3	63.9	.257	8.8
1911	52	152	141	31	45	6	1	2	23	8	19	5	0	.319	.356	.418	.774	115.8	119.6	.368	3.5
1912	56	127	110	10	28	2	0	0	13	14	18	1	2	.255	.344	.273	.617	87.6	80.6	.314	2.9
1913	2	3	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.333	.333	.667	1.000	183.3	194.6	.458	-0.4
1914	5	12	11	0	3	1	0	0	2	1	1	0	1	.273	.333	.364	.697	109.8	111.4	.341	-0.1
1915	29	78	75	8	21	1	1	0	5	2	17	0	1	.280	.299	.320	.619	81.6	86.3	.294	2.9
1916	27	63	61	2	11	2	0	0	3	2	10	0	0	.180	.206	.213	.419	16.7	28.3	.202	1.5
1917	32	49	44	4	10	0	1	0	2	4	9	1	0	.227	.292	.273	.564	71.9	72.1	.278	-0.7
1918	46	122	113	6	19	3	2	0	3	7	5	1	0	.168	.223	.230	.453	33.2	38.5	.225	-0.8
1920	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.0	-100.0	.000	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1906	23	18	10	10	0	13	1	144	48	68	90	0	173.0	2.50	1.225	4.68	2.74	100.5	109.1	2.4
1907	23	17	6	9	2	10	2	109	46	64	73	2	132.7	3.12	1.304	4.95	3.09	120.0	82.5	0.2
1908	26	18	7	5	0	10	4	130	34	64	80	1	153.0	2.00	1.268	4.71	2.60	106.0	122.8	3.1
1909	30	24	12	11	1	18	6	156	53	73	97	1	205.7	2.32	1.113	4.24	2.56	102.4	107.8	2.6
1910	45	38	31	9	1	35	13	248	51	115	224	0	353.0	1.30	1.028	5.71	2.02	83.6	185.4	8.8
1911	47	40	28	12	2	26	1	360	132	119	185	8	336.7	3.53	1.423	4.95	3.33	103.4	91.1	3.5
1912	40	32	21	10	2	23	1	227	96	94	120	5	262.3	3.29	1.224	4.12	3.47	108.5	97.2	2.9
1913	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	5	6	6	0	0	5.3	10.13	2.063	0.00	6.43	224.6	28.3	-0.4
1914	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	8	4	3	1	0	8.0	4.50	1.375	1.13	3.59	133.9	59.6	-0.1
1915	29	24	15	10	0	17	2	166	56	91	56	1	195.7	2.58	1.313	2.58	3.49	126.0	107.6	2.9
1916	27	21	13	8	0	10	3	136	47	44	47	3	159.0	2.66	1.132	2.66	2.83	107.2	99.1	1.5
1917	31	14	7	11	0	9	0	147	62	49	34	7	141.0	3.96	1.390	2.17	3.76	136.8	69.4	-0.7
1918	27	20	8	14	0	16	2	191	80	49	44	10	189.0	3.81	1.270	2.10	3.33	121.1	72.2	-0.8
1920	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	2	2	1	0	5.7	3.18	1.588	1.59	3.60	96.2	118.0	0.1

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

460

1,199

1,110

123

261

RBI

100

191

.2351

OBP

.2781

SLG

.2946

OPS

.5727

Pitching

G (P)

354

270

455th-most career GS

158

234th-most career W

110

444th-most career L

187

157th-most career CG

SHO

71st-most career SHO

2,320

308th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,052

BB allowed

841

215th-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.781

105th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2392

289th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.08

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	TB
1908-08-29	DET @ ATH Gameday	3	1	3	0	0	1	1	6
1911-08-29	ATH @ DET Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	1	3	6
1911-05-20	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	0	3	5
1915-08-25	STL @ LAD Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	1	5
1910-05-30	ATH @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	2	0	0	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1906-09-01	ATH @ BOS Gameday	24.0	15	1	0	6	18
1910-08-04	ATH @ CWS Gameday	16.0	3	0	0	6	18
1910-08-26	BAL @ ATH Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	14
1912-08-24	BAL @ ATH Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	1	11
1911-06-03	CLE @ ATH Gameday	12.0	10	3	0	7	10

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.