Jack Salveson
New York Giants 1933–1934; Chicago White Sox 1935; Pittsburgh Pirates 1935; Cleveland Indians 1943; Cleveland Indians 1945
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .222 | -54.7 | -35.4 | .103 | 0.0 |
| 1934 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .300 | .300 | .300 | .600 | 60.5 | 64.8 | .275 | 0.6 |
| 1935 | 25 | 23 | 22 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .304 | .500 | .804 | 96.8 | 103.1 | .357 | 0.3 |
| 1943 | 23 | 29 | 26 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .259 | .385 | .644 | 82.8 | 92.3 | .299 | 0.8 |
| 1945 | 19 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .455 | .900 | 1.355 | 293.4 | 296.7 | .600 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 30.7 | 3.82 | 1.435 | 2.35 | 5.11 | 157.9 | 84.8 | 0.0 |
| 1934 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 15 | 13 | 18 | 2 | 38.3 | 3.52 | 1.461 | 4.23 | 3.84 | 98.7 | 110.5 | 0.6 |
| 1935 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 90 | 43 | 28 | 24 | 7 | 73.7 | 5.25 | 1.602 | 2.93 | 4.85 | 108.1 | 85.9 | 0.3 |
| 1943 | 23 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 87 | 32 | 26 | 24 | 5 | 86.0 | 3.35 | 1.314 | 2.51 | 3.49 | 111.5 | 93.4 | 0.8 |
| 1945 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 18 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 44.0 | 3.68 | 1.318 | 2.25 | 3.30 | 102.0 | 88.0 | 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-08-02 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1935-06-14 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1943-06-06 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1945-08-04 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1935-08-04 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-08-22 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 9.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1935-08-04 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 6.2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1935-08-26 | NYY @ CWS Gameday | 7.0 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| 1934-08-07 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 5.1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 1943-09-09 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 5.0 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 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.