Jack Spring
Philadelphia Phillies 1955; Boston Red Sox 1957; Washington Senators 1958; Los Angeles Angels 1961–1963; Chicago Cubs 1964; Los Angeles Angels 1964; St. Louis Cardinals 1964; Cleveland Indians 1965
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -122.4 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1957 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 1958 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -130.8 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.8 |
| 1961 | 18 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .111 | .000 | .111 | -75.8 | -68.0 | .083 | 0.3 |
| 1962 | 57 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .182 | -72.5 | -51.1 | .083 | 0.6 |
| 1963 | 45 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 91.9 | 93.3 | .303 | 0.6 |
| 1964 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1965 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 89.2 | 90.3 | .306 | 0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2.7 | 6.75 | 1.125 | 6.75 | 11.68 | 294.3 | 58.8 | -0.1 |
| 1957 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.00 | .000 | 18.00 | -1.60 | -40.1 | — | 0.1 |
| 1958 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 7.0 | 14.14 | 3.286 | 1.29 | 7.02 | 185.4 | 26.7 | -0.8 |
| 1961 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 18 | 15 | 27 | 4 | 38.0 | 4.26 | 1.316 | 6.39 | 3.87 | 91.5 | 99.3 | 0.3 |
| 1962 | 57 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 66 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 7 | 65.0 | 4.02 | 1.477 | 4.29 | 4.44 | 110.0 | 100.5 | 0.6 |
| 1963 | 45 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 13 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 38.3 | 3.05 | 1.278 | 3.05 | 3.50 | 101.8 | 112.7 | 0.6 |
| 1964 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 12.3 | 4.38 | 1.703 | 0.73 | 6.08 | 169.6 | 82.7 | 0.0 |
| 1965 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 21.7 | 3.74 | 1.431 | 3.74 | 4.15 | 119.4 | 93.0 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962-07-27 | LAA @ DET Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1963-04-26 | LAA @ BAL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1965-06-27 | ATH @ CLE Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1955-04-16 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-05-03 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-09-10 | CWS @ LAA Gameday | 7.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
| 1961-08-29 | BAL @ LAA Gameday | 6.0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1961-09-04 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| 1961-09-16 | LAA @ CWS Gameday | 6.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 1965-06-27 | ATH @ CLE Gameday | 5.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 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.