Jack Harshman

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 178 lb

BornJuly 12, 1927 · San Diego, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 16, 1948

Final gameOctober 1, 1960

Seasons10 (1948–1960)

New York Giants 1948; New York Giants 1950; New York Giants 1952; Chicago White Sox 1954–1957; Baltimore Orioles 1958–1959; Boston Red Sox 1959; Cleveland Indians 1959–1960

Percentile snapshot

1958 season — qualified pitchers

30.2

45.3

39.6

5.7

90.6

86.8

SHO

73.6

204

41.5

67.9

39.6

161

92.5

56.6

236.3

73.6

ERA

2.89

92.5

WHIP

1.181

84.9

K/9

6.13

86.8

FIP

3.17

90.6

FIP-

89.3

73.6

ERA+

122.7

86.8

sWAR

5.3

88.7

of 54 qualified 1958 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

109.0

69.8

sWAR

18.8

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1948	5	9	8	0	2	0	0	1	1	3	.250	.333	.250	.583	62.3	59.2	.288	0.0
1950	9	35	32	3	4	0	2	4	3	6	.125	.200	.313	.513	24.2	32.9	.231	-0.3
1952	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.8	-100.0	.000	-0.8
1954	36	72	56	6	8	1	2	5	12	21	.143	.290	.268	.558	56.3	54.0	.279	3.7
1955	32	76	60	6	11	1	2	8	9	17	.183	.282	.300	.582	56.2	57.1	.280	3.4
1956	36	87	71	8	12	1	6	19	11	21	.169	.277	.437	.714	83.1	87.3	.322	5.4
1957	30	58	45	5	10	1	2	5	10	17	.222	.357	.378	.735	109.4	102.6	.347	1.4
1958	47	101	82	11	16	1	6	14	17	22	.195	.330	.427	.757	116.6	113.6	.346	5.3
1959	45	63	51	7	10	1	1	8	9	8	.196	.306	.275	.581	67.5	62.5	.281	0.2
1960	15	19	17	0	3	1	0	1	0	4	.176	.176	.235	.412	-0.9	12.0	.185	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
1952	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	12	10	6	6	2	6.3	14.21	2.842	8.53	7.47	200.0	26.3	-0.8
1954	35	21	14	8	1	9	4	157	58	96	134	7	177.0	2.95	1.429	6.81	3.09	83.0	126.3	3.7
1955	32	23	11	7	0	9	0	144	67	97	116	16	179.3	3.36	1.344	5.82	3.99	100.6	117.8	3.4
1956	34	30	15	11	0	15	4	183	78	102	143	14	226.7	3.10	1.257	5.68	3.44	83.4	133.0	5.4
1957	30	26	8	8	1	6	0	142	69	82	83	16	151.3	4.10	1.480	4.94	4.40	117.3	91.5	1.4
1958	34	29	12	15	4	17	3	204	76	75	161	20	236.3	2.89	1.181	6.13	3.17	89.3	122.7	5.3
1959	35	16	7	10	1	5	1	133	73	51	73	14	138.0	4.76	1.333	4.76	3.88	102.4	79.7	0.2
1960	15	8	2	4	0	0	0	50	24	30	25	7	54.3	3.98	1.472	4.14	4.81	127.3	95.2	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

258

522

424

RBI

119

.1792

OBP

.2937

SLG

.3443

OPS

.6380

Pitching

G (P)

217

155

SHO

1,169

SO (P)

741

BB allowed

539

ERA

3.502

446th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3375

K/9

5.70

450th-highest career K/9

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1958-09-23	MIN @ BAL Gameday	3	2	3	1	2	3	0	10
1958-07-16	CWS @ BAL Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	4	1	8
1956-08-14	CWS @ ATH Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	3	0	6
1955-04-23	CWS @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	2	1	6
1957-05-29	CLE @ CWS Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1954-07-25	CWS @ BOS Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	5	16	0
1954-08-13	DET @ CWS Gameday	16.0	9	0	0	7	12	0
1958-06-02	MIN @ BAL Gameday	10.0	7	2	1	3	11	1
1954-08-24	CWS @ MIN Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	7	10	0
1955-07-02	CWS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	4	10	1

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.