Jakie May
St. Louis Cardinals 1917–1921; Cincinnati Reds 1924–1930; Chicago Cubs 1931–1932
Percentile snapshot
1929 season — qualified pitchers
of 120 qualified 1929 pitchers (min 155 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1918 | 29 | 57 | 45 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .067 | .208 | .133 | .341 | 12.1 | 5.6 | .193 | -0.9 |
| 1919 | 28 | 41 | 37 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .162 | .184 | .162 | .346 | -4.9 | 5.9 | .169 | 0.4 |
| 1920 | 16 | 25 | 22 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .320 | .318 | .638 | 89.5 | 86.3 | .311 | 0.8 |
| 1921 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .429 | .333 | .762 | 115.6 | 105.5 | .371 | 0.0 |
| 1924 | 38 | 28 | 27 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .111 | .222 | .333 | -25.5 | -10.9 | .145 | 1.6 |
| 1925 | 36 | 46 | 43 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .186 | .239 | .256 | .495 | 27.1 | 29.2 | .232 | 1.7 |
| 1926 | 45 | 60 | 48 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .146 | .241 | .146 | .387 | 13.0 | 8.1 | .205 | 2.4 |
| 1927 | 44 | 87 | 76 | 6 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .184 | .225 | .250 | .475 | 25.4 | 29.4 | .225 | 3.1 |
| 1928 | 21 | 30 | 27 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .296 | .296 | .296 | .593 | 50.8 | 57.1 | .274 | 0.4 |
| 1929 | 41 | 67 | 64 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .203 | .203 | .250 | .453 | 7.1 | 14.4 | .203 | 1.7 |
| 1930 | 26 | 42 | 39 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .128 | .171 | .256 | .427 | 0.3 | 3.7 | .190 | -0.1 |
| 1931 | 31 | 24 | 22 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .261 | .318 | .579 | 47.6 | 54.2 | .266 | 0.9 |
| 1932 | 35 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .222 | .125 | .347 | -0.2 | -2.7 | .183 | 0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 11 | 11 | 18 | 0 | 29.3 | 3.38 | 1.364 | 5.52 | 2.59 | 96.5 | 79.4 | -0.1 |
| 1918 | 29 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 149 | 65 | 69 | 61 | 2 | 152.7 | 3.83 | 1.428 | 3.60 | 3.28 | 121.0 | 70.8 | -0.9 |
| 1919 | 28 | 19 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 99 | 45 | 87 | 58 | 1 | 125.7 | 3.22 | 1.480 | 4.15 | 4.03 | 142.3 | 88.0 | 0.4 |
| 1920 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 65 | 24 | 37 | 33 | 0 | 70.7 | 3.06 | 1.443 | 4.20 | 3.54 | 116.2 | 99.5 | 0.8 |
| 1921 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 21.0 | 4.71 | 1.952 | 2.14 | 4.23 | 113.2 | 79.2 | 0.0 |
| 1924 | 38 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 104 | 33 | 29 | 59 | 2 | 99.0 | 3.00 | 1.343 | 5.36 | 3.08 | 83.2 | 123.6 | 1.6 |
| 1925 | 36 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 146 | 59 | 45 | 74 | 3 | 137.3 | 3.87 | 1.391 | 4.85 | 3.45 | 84.3 | 105.8 | 1.7 |
| 1926 | 45 | 15 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 175 | 60 | 44 | 103 | 4 | 167.7 | 3.22 | 1.306 | 5.53 | 2.90 | 78.8 | 114.2 | 2.4 |
| 1927 | 44 | 28 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 17 | 2 | 242 | 92 | 70 | 121 | 4 | 235.7 | 3.51 | 1.324 | 4.62 | 3.25 | 86.2 | 107.4 | 3.1 |
| 1928 | 21 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 99 | 39 | 35 | 39 | 1 | 79.3 | 4.42 | 1.689 | 4.42 | 3.31 | 85.2 | 87.9 | 0.4 |
| 1929 | 41 | 24 | 10 | 14 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 219 | 102 | 75 | 92 | 7 | 199.0 | 4.61 | 1.477 | 4.16 | 4.05 | 90.2 | 97.3 | 1.7 |
| 1930 | 26 | 18 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 147 | 72 | 41 | 44 | 6 | 112.3 | 5.77 | 1.674 | 3.53 | 4.72 | 99.2 | 82.4 | -0.1 |
| 1931 | 31 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 81 | 34 | 43 | 38 | 2 | 79.0 | 3.87 | 1.570 | 4.33 | 4.09 | 104.7 | 100.7 | 0.9 |
| 1932 | 35 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 26 | 19 | 20 | 3 | 53.7 | 4.36 | 1.491 | 3.35 | 4.07 | 106.9 | 87.2 | 0.2 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927-09-11 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1918-07-05 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1924-05-30 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1927-08-07 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1920-07-07 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927-08-07 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 0 |
| 1918-06-14 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| 1927-06-14 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
| 1926-08-31 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 8.0 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
| 1925-07-27 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 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.