Jack Kramer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb

BornJanuary 5, 1918 · New Orleans, LA, USA

MLB debutApril 25, 1939

Final gameAugust 22, 1951

Seasons12 (1939–1951)

St. Louis Browns 1939–1941; St. Louis Browns 1943–1947; Boston Red Sox 1948–1949; New York Giants 1950–1951; New York Yankees 1951

Percentile snapshot

1948 season — qualified pitchers

29.2

63.9

87.5

83.3

73.6

SHO

56.9

233

16.7

13.9

61.1

40.3

205.0

61.1

ERA

4.35

16.7

WHIP

1.449

29.2

K/9

3.16

19.4

FIP

3.74

58.3

FIP-

84.4

83.3

ERA+

102.0

26.4

sWAR

2.2

36.1

of 73 qualified 1948 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

94.9

17.7

sWAR

12.9

89.6

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1939	40	80	66	6	9	2	1	6	7	17	0	.136	.219	.212	.431	6.6	8.7	.212	-0.2
1940	16	25	20	1	1	1	0	1	4	6	0	.050	.208	.100	.308	-13.2	-18.5	.178	-0.6
1941	29	15	8	2	0	0	0	0	6	6	0	.000	.429	.000	.429	78.0	19.5	.324	0.1
1943	3	2	2	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	346.8	331.4	.678	-0.4
1944	33	95	85	6	14	2	2	6	8	21	0	.165	.245	.259	.504	35.9	41.3	.248	6.1
1945	29	79	61	4	9	2	0	6	11	21	0	.148	.278	.180	.458	35.2	31.8	.247	2.2
1946	31	73	59	7	8	1	0	3	6	25	1	.136	.215	.153	.368	-9.3	1.7	.191	3.0
1947	33	75	62	3	7	1	0	2	8	25	0	.113	.214	.129	.343	-11.4	-5.0	.187	-0.9
1948	29	90	73	7	11	1	1	8	10	21	0	.151	.253	.205	.458	18.5	20.8	.236	2.2
1949	21	46	35	4	9	1	0	3	9	13	0	.257	.409	.286	.695	92.8	80.3	.360	0.6
1950	35	26	20	3	2	0	1	2	5	5	0	.100	.280	.250	.530	47.0	41.1	.265	1.5
1951	23	12	10	0	1	0	0	0	2	2	0	.100	.250	.100	.350	10.7	-0.2	.204	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1939	40	31	9	16	0	10	2	269	137	127	68	18	211.7	5.83	1.871	2.89	5.44	113.6	82.2	-0.2
1940	16	9	3	7	0	1	0	86	45	26	12	4	64.7	6.26	1.732	1.67	4.56	100.9	72.2	-0.6
1941	29	3	4	3	2	0	0	69	34	40	20	5	59.3	5.16	1.837	3.03	5.21	121.0	83.4	0.1
1943	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	8	8	4	0	9.0	8.00	2.111	4.00	4.46	133.4	41.8	-0.4
1944	33	31	17	13	0	18	1	233	71	75	124	3	257.0	2.49	1.198	4.34	2.62	73.7	143.1	6.1
1945	29	25	10	15	2	15	3	190	72	73	99	13	193.0	3.36	1.363	4.62	3.43	98.5	103.5	2.2
1946	31	28	13	11	0	13	3	190	69	68	69	6	194.7	3.19	1.325	3.19	3.19	87.0	114.8	3.0
1947	33	28	11	16	1	9	1	206	110	89	77	16	199.3	4.97	1.480	3.48	4.06	105.7	77.4	-0.9
1948	29	29	18	5	0	14	2	233	99	64	72	12	205.0	4.35	1.449	3.16	3.74	84.4	102.0	2.2
1949	21	18	6	8	1	7	2	126	64	49	24	8	111.7	5.16	1.567	1.93	4.34	97.6	86.1	0.6
1950	35	9	3	6	1	1	0	91	34	39	27	6	86.7	3.53	1.500	2.80	4.15	100.9	116.6	1.5
1951	23	4	1	3	0	0	0	57	29	24	17	1	45.3	5.76	1.787	3.38	3.68	94.0	68.0	-0.5

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

322

618

501

RBI

162

.1437

OBP

.2578

SLG

.1976

OPS

.4554

Pitching

G (P)

322

215

103

495th-most career CG

SHO

436th-most career SHO

1,637

SO (P)

613

BB allowed

682

420th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.243

WHIP

1.4921

K/9

3.37

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	TB
1949-08-05	DET @ BOS Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	2	4
1944-04-23	CWS @ BAL Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	2	4
1950-04-22	SF @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	2	4
1939-09-21	BAL @ BOS Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4
1944-09-09	BAL @ CWS Gameday	5	1	1	0	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1944-10-06	STL @ BAL Gameday	9.0	7	2	0	2	10	0
1945-06-12	BAL @ DET Gameday	10.1	10	2	2	3	9	0
1945-06-27	NYY @ BAL Gameday	8.1	6	5	5	4	9	0
1945-06-16	CLE @ BAL Gameday	12.0	9	3	3	4	8	1
1946-05-16	BOS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	3	8	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.

Honors

3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.