Jess Dobernic
Chicago White Sox 1939; Chicago Cubs 1948–1949; Cincinnati Reds 1949
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -115.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 1948 | 54 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | -3.1 | 10.1 | .184 | 1.5 |
| 1949 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 35.6 | -3.8 | .249 | -1.7 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 3.3 | 13.50 | 2.700 | 2.70 | 8.84 | 192.6 | 34.0 | -0.3 |
| 1948 | 54 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 30 | 40 | 48 | 8 | 85.7 | 3.15 | 1.249 | 5.04 | 4.10 | 106.5 | 122.0 | 1.5 |
| 1949 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 30 | 20 | 6 | 9 | 23.3 | 11.57 | 2.443 | 2.31 | 9.60 | 236.0 | 35.2 | -1.7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-05-28 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1948-06-17 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1939-04-18 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-20 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-22 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-05-28 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 4.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1948-05-05 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 2.0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| 1948-05-31 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1948-08-10 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 3.1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 1948-07-01 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 3.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 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.