Jake Stephens

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 6 in · 135 lb

BornFebruary 10, 1900 · Springettsbury Township, PA, USA

Seasons17 (1921–1937)

Hilldale Club 1921–1928; New York Lincoln Giants 1928; Homestead Grays 1929; Hilldale Club 1929; Homestead Grays 1930–1932; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1932; Philadelphia Stars 1933–1935; New York Black Yankees 1936–1937

Percentile snapshot

1936 season — qualified batters

7.5

136

8.3

113

7.5

10.8

6.7

RBI

10.8

77.5

53.3

39.2

.212

0.8

OBP

.315

SLG

.257

OPS

.572

1.7

wRC+

59.1

OPS+

47.6

1.7

wOBA

.285

4.2

sWAR

-0.1

6.7

of 121 qualified 1936 batters (min 89 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-0.8

7.9

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
1921	6	20	19	2	3	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.158	.200	.211	.411	18.9	6.0	.196	-0.1
1922	7	18	17	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.059	.059	.059	.118	-56.5	-66.5	.055	-0.3
1923	18	41	40	7	4	1	0	0	2	1	1	1	0	.100	.122	.125	.247	-12.6	-30.6	.119	-0.4
1924	28	116	100	11	19	4	1	1	6	11	1	4	0	.190	.270	.280	.550	57.2	49.5	.267	-0.1
1925	54	211	189	29	41	9	2	0	9	12	0	8	0	.217	.264	.286	.549	47.3	42.2	.258	-0.5
1926	66	244	207	30	56	5	2	0	24	21	15	12	0	.271	.349	.314	.663	86.6	82.0	.326	0.7
1927	82	331	286	39	67	4	6	0	21	24	0	19	0	.234	.307	.290	.597	62.9	57.2	.290	-0.1
1928	55	220	200	22	32	2	0	1	5	10	6	4	1	.160	.215	.185	.400	16.2	6.1	.197	-1.6
1929	15	57	51	6	10	0	0	0	2	3	0	1	0	.196	.241	.196	.437	17.6	6.4	.215	-0.4
1930	55	257	220	46	60	10	4	1	20	29	7	5	0	.273	.363	.368	.731	75.1	68.2	.341	0.3
1931	17	62	56	6	14	5	0	0	5	4	2	0	0	.250	.311	.339	.651	81.3	78.3	.304	0.2
1932	74	329	278	58	68	6	3	0	30	34	0	8	0	.245	.335	.288	.623	75.0	68.3	.309	0.4
1933	28	126	113	18	35	5	1	1	12	11	1	1	0	.310	.376	.398	.774	106.9	106.6	.365	0.7
1934	65	285	254	39	67	8	2	0	22	22	2	7	1	.264	.325	.311	.636	82.7	78.7	.309	0.6
1935	40	184	157	24	38	4	1	0	11	18	0	1	0	.242	.320	.280	.600	62.1	52.9	.289	-0.1
1936	31	136	113	22	24	1	2	0	6	12	2	6	0	.212	.315	.257	.572	59.1	47.6	.285	-0.1
1937	25	101	91	11	26	2	0	0	7	7	0	1	0	.286	.343	.308	.651	76.0	69.2	.308	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1937	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	0.00	.000	0.00	4.03	80.8	—	0.1

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

666

2,738

2,391

371

565

RBI

182

220

.2363

OBP

.3083

SLG

.2894

OPS

.5977

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

.0000

K/9

0.00

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	RBI	BB	TB
1935-06-09	PHS @ CAG Gameday	5	3	3	2	1	2	0	7
1936-09-07	BEG @ NBY Gameday	4	3	4	0	1	1	0	6
1934-07-10	TIC @ PHS Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	0	0	5
1934-06-24	CRS @ PHS Gameday	4	0	3	0	1	1	0	5
1932-05-07	CLS @ HOM Gameday	4	4	3	1	0	4	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1923-04-28	BG @ HIL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-04-29	HIL @ NYL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-12	BRG @ HIL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-19	CSE @ HIL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-26	BBS @ HIL 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.