Jay Kirke
Detroit Tigers 1910; Boston Rustlers 1911; Boston Braves 1912–1913; Cleveland Naps 1914; Cleveland Indians 1915; New York Giants 1918
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | 8 | 30 | 25 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .200 | .231 | .240 | .471 | 36.0 | 43.3 | .232 | -0.1 |
| 1911 | 20 | 94 | 89 | 9 | 32 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | .360 | .380 | .528 | .909 | 136.8 | 141.4 | .421 | 0.7 |
| 1912 | 103 | 378 | 359 | 53 | 115 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 62 | 9 | 46 | 7 | 0 | .320 | .339 | .407 | .745 | 94.2 | 98.4 | .349 | 0.6 |
| 1913 | 18 | 42 | 38 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .237 | .293 | .289 | .582 | 63.1 | 64.4 | .282 | -0.1 |
| 1914 | 67 | 254 | 242 | 18 | 66 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 7 | 30 | 5 | 10 | .273 | .296 | .343 | .639 | 80.9 | 88.0 | .308 | -0.1 |
| 1915 | 87 | 369 | 339 | 35 | 105 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 40 | 14 | 21 | 5 | 6 | .310 | .346 | .395 | .742 | 114.0 | 118.3 | .360 | 1.1 |
| 1918 | 17 | 59 | 56 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .263 | .268 | .531 | 57.8 | 64.6 | .255 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911-09-26 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1912-07-06 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1911-09-30 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1912-06-13 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1912-08-24 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910-04-14 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1910-04-15 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1910-04-16 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1910-04-18 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1910-04-21 | DET @ CLE 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.