MLB / Players

Jackie Hayes

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 165 lb

BornJuly 19, 1906 · Clanton, AL, USA

MLB debutAugust 5, 1927

Final gameAugust 29, 1940

Seasons14 (1927–1940)

Washington Senators 1927–1931; Chicago White Sox 1932–1940

Percentile snapshot

1937 season — qualified batters

143

55.6

631

61.6

573

71.7

33.3

131

30.3

48.5

19.2

15.2

RBI

66.7

37.4

52.5

13.1

.229

OBP

.282

SLG

.300

OPS

.583

wRC+

45.0

OPS+

47.7

wOBA

.273

sWAR

-2.1

of 100 qualified 1937 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

69.7

OPS+

70.3

2.6

sWAR

-1.1

5.2

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1927	10	31	29	2	7	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	.241	.267	.241	.508	30.2	33.5	.243	-0.1
1928	60	222	210	30	54	7	3	0	22	5	10	3	0	.257	.274	.319	.593	50.9	56.3	.273	-0.5
1929	123	468	424	52	117	20	3	2	57	24	29	4	5	.276	.316	.351	.668	70.3	72.1	.309	0.0
1930	51	178	166	25	47	7	2	1	20	7	8	2	3	.283	.312	.367	.680	71.4	72.7	.308	-0.1
1931	38	117	108	11	24	2	1	0	8	6	4	2	0	.222	.263	.259	.522	38.2	39.1	.248	-0.5
1932	117	511	475	53	122	20	5	2	54	30	28	7	4	.257	.302	.333	.635	67.6	68.1	.295	-0.2
1933	138	603	535	65	138	23	5	2	47	55	36	2	3	.258	.331	.331	.661	79.3	77.4	.315	0.6
1934	62	255	226	19	58	9	1	1	31	23	20	3	2	.257	.325	.319	.644	64.4	64.0	.308	-0.2
1935	89	374	329	45	88	14	0	4	45	29	15	3	1	.267	.327	.347	.673	71.0	72.2	.317	0.0
1936	108	461	417	53	130	34	3	5	84	35	25	4	2	.312	.366	.444	.810	95.9	97.2	.370	1.4
1937	143	631	573	63	131	27	4	2	79	41	37	1	6	.229	.282	.300	.583	45.0	47.7	.273	-2.1
1938	62	269	238	40	78	21	2	1	20	24	6	3	2	.328	.389	.445	.835	108.3	108.0	.384	1.2
1939	72	305	269	34	67	12	3	0	23	27	10	0	3	.249	.320	.316	.636	65.0	63.7	.302	-0.3
1940	18	46	41	2	8	0	1	0	1	2	11	0	0	.195	.233	.244	.476	18.7	24.3	.222	-0.3

Career totals

1,091

4,471

4,040

494

1,069

196

RBI

493

309

241

.2646

OBP

.3183

SLG

.3443

OPS

.6626

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
1938-06-10	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	4	4	2	0	1	1	0	9
1932-07-07	CWS @ ATH Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	2	1	8
1935-04-26	BAL @ CWS Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	1	1	0	8
1932-07-15	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	1	2	1	8
1935-05-11	BOS @ CWS Gameday	4	3	4	0	0	1	4	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1927-04-12	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-14	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-15	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-16	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-17	ATH @ MIN 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.