MLB / Players

Jelly Taylor

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 230 lb

BornJuly 10, 1910 · London, OH, USA

Seasons9 (1937–1946)

Cincinnati Tigers 1937; Memphis Red Sox 1938–1943; Memphis Red Sox 1945–1946

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified batters

21.6

183

20.9

155

12.2

15.1

5.8

14.4

8.6

RBI

2.2

20.1

89.9

66.9

42.4

.252

15.1

OBP

.329

23.7

SLG

.329

11.5

OPS

.659

13.7

wRC+

96.2

33.1

OPS+

98.7

36.7

wOBA

.324

20.9

sWAR

0.1

13.7

of 140 qualified 1940 batters (min 176 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

0.5

57.8

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1937	40	158	141	15	38	3	3	2	13	13	1	1	.270	.335	.376	.711	97.5	96.4	.332	0.2
1938	35	143	128	15	38	1	1	0	16	11	1	2	.297	.353	.320	.673	97.3	94.5	.326	0.2
1939	31	121	106	10	22	3	0	0	6	12	0	1	.208	.300	.236	.536	66.6	56.8	.272	-0.4
1940	48	183	155	23	39	5	2	1	10	18	0	7	.252	.329	.329	.659	96.2	98.7	.324	0.1
1941	16	65	58	10	14	2	0	0	2	7	0	1	.241	.323	.276	.599	84.8	78.2	.301	0.0
1942	31	128	116	12	34	3	1	0	15	8	0	3	.293	.349	.336	.685	105.6	104.6	.329	0.2
1943	1	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.333	.500	.333	.833	168.5	157.5	.429	0.0
1945	4	14	12	1	3	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	.250	.357	.250	.607	91.4	79.5	.310	0.0
1946	11	46	40	7	11	3	0	0	3	5	0	0	.275	.356	.350	.706	108.9	108.2	.350	0.1

Career totals

217

862

759

200

RBI

.2635

OBP

.3353

SLG

.3202

OPS

.6555

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
1937-05-30	ATH @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	2	0	6
1939-05-07	CAG @ MEM Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	4	0	5
1938-07-04	MEM @ KCM Gameday	3	3	3	0	1	2	2	5
1942-09-13	CAG @ MEM Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	0	5
1938-06-05	BBB @ MEM Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	3	2	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1937-05-09	DTS @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-10	DTS @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-10	DTS @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-15	CIN @ DTS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-22	CIN @ KCM 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

3× 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.