Jake Beckley

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 200 lb

BornAugust 4, 1867 · Hannibal, MO, USA

MLB debutJune 20, 1888

Final gameJune 15, 1907

Seasons20 (1888–1907)

Pittsburg Alleghenys 1888–1889; Pittsburgh Burghers 1890; Pittsburgh Pirates 1891–1895; New York Giants 1896; Pittsburgh Pirates 1896; Cincinnati Reds 1897; New York Giants 1897; Cincinnati Reds 1898–1903; St. Louis Cardinals 1904–1907

Percentile snapshot

1905 season — qualified batters

134

44.4

558

43.5

514

52.8

27.8

147

66.7

68.5

35.2

RBI

68.5

38.9

59.3

29.6

.286

70.4

OBP

.333

57.4

SLG

.370

66.7

OPS

.702

65.7

wRC+

109.1

54.6

OPS+

111.0

57.4

wOBA

.338

61.1

sWAR

1.4

38.9

of 109 qualified 1905 batters (min 477 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

117.6

75.6

OPS+

122.9

83.3

sWAR

39.7

97.9

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1888	71	292	283	35	97	15	3	0	27	7	22	20	.343	.363	.417	.780	137.8	147.5	.358	1.8
1889	123	557	522	91	157	24	10	9	97	29	29	11	.301	.345	.437	.781	110.3	116.5	.366	1.7
1890	124	577	529	110	171	38	22	9	123	42	33	18	.323	.380	.529	.909	126.9	140.9	.418	3.1
1891	133	606	554	94	162	20	19	4	73	44	46	13	.292	.353	.419	.772	117.5	124.2	.368	2.4
1892	151	659	614	102	145	21	19	10	96	31	44	30	.236	.288	.381	.669	97.1	101.7	.320	0.8
1893	131	616	542	108	164	32	19	5	106	54	26	15	.303	.386	.459	.846	117.8	124.1	.401	2.5
1894	132	621	537	123	185	36	19	7	122	43	16	21	.345	.412	.521	.934	117.7	123.6	.426	2.5
1895	130	594	534	104	175	31	19	5	111	24	20	20	.328	.380	.485	.865	115.3	121.9	.401	2.2
1896	105	455	399	81	110	15	9	9	70	31	35	19	.276	.351	.426	.777	102.0	103.6	.367	0.9
1897	114	472	433	84	143	19	12	8	87	20	14	25	.330	.380	.485	.865	120.8	127.4	.403	2.0
1898	118	506	459	86	135	20	12	4	72	28	27	6	.294	.348	.416	.764	113.7	118.3	.367	1.6
1899	135	583	517	87	172	27	16	3	99	40	21	20	.333	.392	.464	.856	128.5	134.0	.406	3.0
1900	141	614	558	98	190	26	10	2	94	40	18	23	.341	.389	.434	.822	123.2	126.7	.390	2.8
1901	140	635	580	78	178	36	13	3	79	28	37	4	.307	.346	.429	.776	117.9	121.5	.364	2.3
1902	129	579	531	82	175	23	7	5	69	34	29	15	.330	.377	.427	.804	140.4	142.6	.391	3.5
1903	120	512	459	85	150	29	10	2	81	42	13	23	.327	.384	.447	.831	123.2	126.6	.396	2.3
1904	142	610	551	72	179	22	9	1	67	35	31	17	.325	.375	.403	.778	140.1	142.6	.374	3.8
1905	134	558	514	48	147	20	10	1	57	30	41	12	.286	.333	.370	.702	109.1	111.0	.338	1.4
1906	87	349	320	29	79	16	6	0	44	13	19	3	.247	.283	.334	.617	88.9	94.2	.301	-0.1
1907	32	122	115	6	24	3	0	0	7	1	5	0	.209	.222	.235	.457	32.3	43.1	.223	-0.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1902	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	9	3	1	2	0	4.0	6.75	2.500	4.50	2.28	78.8	42.9	3.5

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

2,392

90th-most career G

10,517

57th-most career PA

9,551

46th-most career AB

1,603

48th-most career R

2,938

37th-most career H

473

90th-most career 2B

244

4th-most career 3B

RBI

1,581

45th-most career RBI

616

526

315

157th-most career SB

.3076

134th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3611

450th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4356

OPS

.7967

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

6.750

WHIP

2.5000

K/9

4.50

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
1901-05-17	CIN @ LAD Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	1	4	0	8
1901-08-05	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	1	4	1	8
1904-05-10	SF @ STL Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	0	3	0	7
1902-04-26	STL @ CIN Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	2	0	7
1901-08-03	CIN @ PIT Gameday	6	3	3	1	0	1	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1902-10-04	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4.0	9	8	3	1	2
1901-04-20	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-24	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	CIN @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	CIN @ CHC Gameday	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

Hall of Fame, 1971 (Veterans)

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