MLB / Players

Jackie Jensen

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 190 lb

BornMarch 9, 1927 · San Francisco, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1950

Final gameOctober 1, 1961

Seasons11 (1950–1961)

New York Yankees 1950–1952; Washington Senators 1952–1953; Boston Red Sox 1954–1959; Boston Red Sox 1961

Percentile snapshot

1961 season — qualified batters

137

16.7

573

26.2

498

27.4

15.5

131

23.8

8.3

39.3

RBI

46.4

67.9

66.7

13.1

.263

23.8

OBP

.350

51.2

SLG

.392

32.1

OPS

.742

40.5

wRC+

98.0

38.1

OPS+

95.9

38.1

wOBA

.340

40.5

sWAR

1.1

20.2

of 85 qualified 1961 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

121.2

80.5

OPS+

120.2

79.6

sWAR

29.9

96.5

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
1950	45	78	70	13	12	2	2	1	5	7	8	4	0	.171	.247	.300	.547	37.5	42.5	.258	-0.5
1951	56	188	168	30	50	8	1	8	25	18	18	8	2	.298	.369	.500	.869	136.3	139.4	.397	1.4
1952	151	664	589	83	165	30	6	10	82	67	44	18	6	.280	.357	.402	.759	115.3	114.6	.357	2.7
1953	147	631	552	87	147	32	8	10	84	73	51	18	8	.266	.357	.408	.765	110.1	108.9	.357	2.1
1954	152	673	580	92	160	25	7	25	117	79	52	22	7	.276	.359	.472	.831	117.6	117.7	.378	3.6
1955	152	681	574	95	158	27	6	26	116	89	63	16	7	.275	.369	.479	.848	117.9	119.6	.384	3.0
1956	151	673	578	80	182	23	11	20	97	89	43	11	3	.315	.405	.497	.901	130.0	127.0	.410	4.0
1957	145	627	544	82	153	29	2	23	103	75	66	8	5	.281	.367	.469	.836	125.5	121.9	.380	3.3
1958	154	655	548	83	157	31	0	35	122	99	65	9	4	.286	.396	.535	.931	150.7	146.8	.412	5.5
1959	148	636	535	101	148	31	0	28	112	88	67	20	5	.277	.372	.492	.863	130.6	129.9	.385	3.8
1961	137	573	498	64	131	21	2	13	66	66	69	9	8	.263	.350	.392	.742	98.0	95.9	.340	1.1

Career totals

1,438

6,079

5,236

810

1,463

259

199

390th-most career HR

RBI

929

381st-most career RBI

750

321st-most career BB

546

143

.2794

OBP

.3689

308th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4601

389th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8290

292nd-highest career OPS

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	TB
1951-05-05	NYY @ BAL Gameday	6	3	4	2	0	1	3	9
1954-07-29	BOS @ CLE Gameday	6	2	3	0	0	2	6	9
1955-05-29	MIN @ BOS Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	5	9
1959-04-18	NYY @ BOS Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	4	9
1951-05-03	NYY @ BAL Gameday	6	3	3	1	1	1	3	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1950-04-19	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-04-25	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-05-17	NYY @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-05-30	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-06-10	BAL @ NYY 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.

Honors

1× Most Valuable Player1× Gold Glove3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.