Jake Tolbert
Birmingham Black Barons 1940; Chicago American Giants 1946; New York Black Yankees 1946; Chicago American Giants 1947–1948
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -82.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1946 | 6 | 19 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .158 | .111 | .269 | -8.0 | -22.4 | .141 | -0.2 |
| 1947 | 10 | 26 | 21 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .308 | .143 | .451 | 48.8 | 23.0 | .259 | 0.0 |
| 1948 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .182 | .100 | .282 | -5.1 | -23.1 | .155 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-06-22 | PHS @ NBY Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1947-06-22 | BBB @ CAG Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1947-07-02 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1948-08-25 | CAG @ CLB Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1940-05-12 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-05-12 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-12 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-13 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-16 | HSL @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-17 | HSL @ BBB 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.