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Jesse Houston

HandednessThrows Right
BornJuly 17, 1909 · Montgomery, AL, USA
Seasons4 (1937–1941)

Cincinnati Tigers 1937; Chicago American Giants 1938–1939; Homestead Grays 1941

Percentile snapshot

1939 season — qualified pitchers

G
13
21.5
GS
10
24.7
W
5
19.4
L
5
67.7
SV
0
0
CG
7
32.3
SHO
0
0
H
79
78.5
ER
32
79.6
BB
37
66.7
SO
36
16.1
HR
3
77.4
IP
77.3
20.4
ERA
3.72
58.1
WHIP
1.500
23.7
K/9
4.19
65.6
FIP
4.56
23.7
FIP-
115.1
8.6
ERA+
106.3
43
sWAR
1.1
31.2

of 94 qualified 1939 pitchers (min 63 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
5.7
80.9

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
193718534751200023000.255.300.255.55564.254.8.2673.5
19381840384711032000.184.225.263.48847.740.3.2330.1
193925484571221043100.267.313.356.66893.093.9.3171.1
1941819172300001000.176.222.176.39923.212.8.1971.0

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
193716159301011012821842111.72.261.0936.773.5779.7198.43.5
19381272413059302526353.05.091.5854.425.21122.383.70.1
193913105507079323736377.33.721.5004.194.56115.1106.31.1
1941734012036121019240.02.701.1504.284.0992.6163.41.0

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

G
69
PA
160
AB
147
R
18
H
34
2B
3
3B
2
HR
0
RBI
9
BB
9
SO
1
SB
0
BA
.2313
OBP
.2756
SLG
.2789
OPS
.5545

Pitching

G (P)
48
GS
35
W
20
L
12
SV
2
CG
22
SHO
1
IP
282
SO (P)
165
BB allowed
93
ERA
3.255
WHIP
1.3050
K/9
5.27

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.