Jack Merson
Pittsburgh Pirates 1951–1952; Boston Red Sox 1953
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 13 | 52 | 50 | 6 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .360 | .373 | .540 | .913 | 136.6 | 135.9 | .404 | 0.4 |
| 1952 | 111 | 424 | 398 | 41 | 98 | 20 | 2 | 5 | 38 | 22 | 38 | 1 | 1 | .246 | .287 | .344 | .632 | 63.8 | 69.8 | .290 | -0.3 |
| 1953 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -136.8 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-05-28 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 1951-09-15 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
| 1952-07-30 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1952-05-03 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1951-09-16 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-04-24 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-04-25 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-05-11 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-05-13 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-05-15 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.