MLB / Players

Jack Salveson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb
BornJanuary 5, 1914 · Fullerton, CA, USA
MLB debutJune 3, 1933
Final gameSeptember 16, 1945
Seasons5 (1933–1945)

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
2.2
71

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19338990100000100.111.111.111.222-54.7-35.4.1030.0
19341310100300010100.300.300.300.60060.564.8.2750.6
19352523223620141500.273.304.500.80496.8103.1.3570.3
19432329262610121100.231.259.385.64482.892.3.2990.8
19451911103420131100.400.455.9001.355293.4296.7.6000.5

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
193382020203013148430.73.821.4352.355.11157.984.80.0
19341243100043151318238.33.521.4614.233.8498.7110.50.6
19352521312090432824773.75.251.6022.934.85108.185.90.3
194323115334387322624586.03.351.3142.513.49111.593.40.8
1945190000005218611344.03.681.3182.253.30102.088.00.5

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

G
88
PA
82
AB
77
R
8
H
20
2B
5
3B
0
HR
3
RBI
10
BB
3
SO
9
SB
0
BA
.2597
OBP
.2875
SLG
.4416
OPS
.7291

Pitching

G (P)
87
GS
19
W
9
L
9
SV
4
CG
8
SHO
3
IP
273
SO (P)
85
BB allowed
87
ERA
3.994
WHIP
1.4267
K/9
2.81

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1945-08-02CWS @ CLE Gameday323200205
1935-06-14MIN @ CWS Gameday211001204
1943-06-06CLE @ ATH Gameday311001104
1945-08-04CLE @ BAL Gameday111001114
1935-08-04BAL @ CWS Gameday302100003

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1943-08-22BOS @ CLE Gameday9.0200340
1935-08-04BAL @ CWS Gameday6.2220140
1935-08-26NYY @ CWS Gameday7.01177430
1934-08-07LAD @ SF Gameday5.1533331
1943-09-09CLE @ DET Gameday5.0864330

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.