MLB / Players

James McJames

HandednessThrows Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 165 lb

BornAugust 27, 1874 · Williamsburg County, SC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 24, 1895

Final gameJuly 13, 1901

Seasons6 (1895–1901)

Washington Senators 1895–1897; Baltimore Orioles 1898; Brooklyn Superbas 1899; Brooklyn Superbas 1901

Percentile snapshot

1899 season — qualified pitchers

62.7

56.9

64.7

45.1

74.5

45.1

SHO

37.3

295

45.1

107

41.2

122

3.9

105

86.3

56.9

275.3

ERA

3.50

WHIP

1.515

25.5

K/9

3.43

92.2

FIP

3.80

43.1

FIP-

98.8

47.1

ERA+

110.0

sWAR

3.3

of 52 qualified 1899 pitchers (min 148 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

115.7

84.2

sWAR

18.0

92.7

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1895	2	7	7	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	-10.5	-26.3	.135	0.6
1896	37	117	111	8	18	1	0	5	3	19	1	.162	.184	.171	.355	5.7	-6.1	.174	2.3
1897	44	129	124	12	21	1	2	13	5	19	1	.169	.202	.210	.411	17.4	8.5	.199	4.7
1898	45	155	149	12	27	7	1	14	5	20	2	.181	.208	.242	.449	30.5	28.4	.218	8.2
1899	37	114	112	8	19	4	1	6	2	22	1	.170	.184	.223	.407	14.8	11.4	.194	3.3
1901	13	36	34	1	1	0	0	0	2	12	0	.029	.083	.029	.113	-57.4	-66.6	.069	-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
1895	2	2	1	1	0	2	0	17	3	16	9	0	17.0	1.59	1.941	4.76	5.35	112.0	300.5	0.6
1896	37	33	12	20	1	29	0	310	133	135	103	2	280.3	4.27	1.587	3.31	4.16	95.4	102.1	2.3
1897	44	39	15	23	2	33	3	361	130	137	156	7	323.7	3.61	1.539	4.34	4.10	95.3	119.0	4.7
1898	45	42	27	15	0	40	2	327	98	113	178	5	374.0	2.36	1.176	4.28	2.99	83.0	152.8	8.2
1899	37	34	19	15	1	27	1	295	107	122	105	4	275.3	3.50	1.515	3.43	3.80	98.8	110.0	3.3
1901	13	12	5	6	0	6	0	104	48	40	42	1	91.0	4.75	1.582	4.15	3.71	112.0	69.7	-0.9

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

178

558

537

RBI

.1620

OBP

.1877

SLG

.2011

OPS

.3888

Pitching

G (P)

178

162

137

270th-most career CG

SHO

1,361

SO (P)

593

BB allowed

563

ERA

3.431

388th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.4523

K/9

3.92

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	H	TB
1901-05-23	CHC @ LAD Gameday	3	1	1
1901-04-18	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0	0	0
1901-04-19	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0	0	0
1901-04-22	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0	0	0
1901-04-26	LAD @ SF Gameday	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1901-07-05	LAD @ CHC Gameday	9.0	13	5	5	1	8
1901-06-11	LAD @ CHC Gameday	8.0	9	4	1	2	5
1901-05-04	PHI @ LAD Gameday	9.0	7	8	4	3	4
1901-06-15	LAD @ STL Gameday	9.0	10	2	2	3	4
1901-05-15	CIN @ LAD Gameday	8.0	5	5	3	5	4

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.