MLB / Players

Jake Early

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 168 lb

BornMay 19, 1915 · Kings Mountain, NC, USA

MLB debutMay 4, 1939

Final gameSeptember 30, 1949

Seasons9 (1939–1949)

Washington Senators 1939–1943; Washington Senators 1946; St. Louis Browns 1947; Washington Senators 1948–1949

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified batters

126

44.9

484

40.6

423

40.6

36.2

109

42.8

67.4

68.1

RBI

68.8

29.7

56.5

25.4

.258

36.2

OBP

.346

50.7

SLG

.362

OPS

.708

44.9

wRC+

111.1

57.2

OPS+

109.0

55.8

wOBA

.343

47.8

sWAR

3.4

83.3

of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

10.4

87.4

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
1939	32	91	84	8	22	7	2	0	14	5	14	0	0	.262	.303	.393	.696	73.7	77.3	.316	0.2
1940	80	231	206	26	53	8	4	5	14	23	22	0	1	.257	.335	.408	.743	96.6	97.1	.338	1.1
1941	104	384	355	42	102	20	7	10	54	24	38	0	1	.287	.338	.468	.805	107.7	111.2	.364	2.4
1942	104	394	353	31	72	14	2	3	46	37	37	0	0	.204	.281	.280	.562	55.9	57.9	.275	0.0
1943	126	484	423	37	109	23	3	5	60	53	43	5	3	.258	.346	.362	.708	111.1	109.0	.343	3.4
1946	64	212	189	13	38	6	0	4	18	23	27	0	0	.201	.288	.296	.584	65.3	67.3	.282	0.4
1947	87	268	214	25	48	9	3	3	19	54	34	0	1	.224	.381	.336	.717	106.1	96.6	.357	1.9
1948	97	286	246	22	54	7	2	1	28	36	33	2	1	.220	.322	.276	.598	63.4	60.8	.299	0.4
1949	53	168	138	12	34	4	0	1	11	26	11	0	1	.246	.370	.297	.667	84.5	77.9	.338	0.7

Career totals

747

2,518

2,208

216

532

RBI

264

281

259

.2409

OBP

.3296

SLG

.3496

OPS

.6792

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
1941-06-03	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	2	5	0	0	1	5	8
1941-06-19	BAL @ MIN Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	0	2	7
1943-08-08	MIN @ BOS Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	3	7
1942-06-17	MIN @ CLE Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	2	7
1941-05-25	MIN @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1939-04-20	MIN @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-21	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-22	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-23	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-24	MIN @ BOS 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× 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.