MLB / Players

Jesse Petty

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 195 lb

BornNovember 23, 1894 · Orr, OK, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1921

Final gameSeptember 28, 1930

Seasons7 (1921–1930)

Cleveland Indians 1921; Brooklyn Robins 1925–1928; Pittsburgh Pirates 1929; Chicago Cubs 1930; Pittsburgh Pirates 1930

Percentile snapshot

1929 season — qualified pitchers

71.4

52.9

42.9

52.9

SHO

33.6

197

50.4

61.3

73.9

47.9

31.1

184.3

56.3

ERA

3.71

73.9

WHIP

1.297

83.2

K/9

2.83

35.3

FIP

4.21

65.5

FIP-

87.9

81.5

ERA+

129.1

80.7

sWAR

3.3

72.3

of 120 qualified 1929 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

111.8

75.9

sWAR

15.4

91.2

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
1921	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.7	-100.0	.000	0.3
1925	28	55	50	5	7	1	0	2	2	11	0	.140	.173	.160	.333	-19.6	-13.4	.159	0.2
1926	38	101	97	6	17	5	0	8	1	29	1	.175	.184	.227	.410	0.4	10.7	.189	5.3
1927	42	93	91	3	9	1	1	2	1	32	0	.099	.109	.132	.241	-48.6	-35.6	.112	4.8
1928	40	87	81	5	9	1	0	4	2	27	0	.111	.133	.123	.256	-46.0	-32.1	.123	1.4
1929	36	69	67	2	7	1	0	6	1	17	0	.104	.118	.119	.237	-54.1	-41.5	.111	3.3
1930	19	27	25	2	4	1	0	2	0	9	0	.160	.160	.200	.360	-22.0	-13.8	.159	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1921	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	2	0	0	0	9.0	2.00	1.111	0.00	3.21	74.6	215.4	0.3
1925	28	22	9	9	0	7	0	188	83	47	39	15	153.0	4.88	1.536	2.29	4.83	115.8	85.5	0.2
1926	38	33	17	17	1	23	1	246	87	79	101	9	275.7	2.84	1.179	3.30	3.49	92.5	132.9	5.3
1927	42	33	13	18	1	19	2	263	90	53	101	13	271.7	2.98	1.163	3.35	3.50	90.2	130.1	4.8
1928	40	31	15	15	1	15	2	264	105	56	74	18	234.0	4.04	1.368	2.85	3.92	100.4	96.7	1.4
1929	36	25	11	10	0	12	1	197	76	42	58	12	184.3	3.71	1.297	2.83	4.21	87.9	129.1	3.3
1930	19	10	2	9	1	0	0	118	51	19	34	10	80.7	5.69	1.698	3.79	5.10	102.5	87.5	0.1

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

207

434

413

RBI

126

.1283

OBP

.1429

SLG

.1574

OPS

.3003

Pitching

G (P)

207

154

SHO

1,208

SO (P)

407

BB allowed

296

ERA

3.679

WHIP

1.3092

K/9

3.03

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	TB
1926-06-19	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4	0	2	2	0	4	4
1928-07-08	LAD @ CHC Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	1	3
1929-09-06	LAD @ PIT Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	1	3
1927-05-11	CIN @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	3
1926-08-05	STL @ LAD Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1928-04-24	PHI @ LAD Gameday	9.0	12	7	7	1	8	1
1926-08-14	ATL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	9	4	3	3	7	0
1927-05-27	SF @ LAD Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	2	7	1
1926-09-26	CHC @ LAD Gameday	8.0	7	2	2	4	7	1
1927-09-25	SF @ LAD Gameday	7.0	3	0	0	2	7	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.