Jesse Williams
Kansas City Monarchs 1939–1941; New York Black Yankees 1941; Kansas City Monarchs 1942–1945
Percentile snapshot
1945 season — qualified batters
of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 198 PA)
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 | 26 | 76 | 70 | 8 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .214 | .253 | .257 | .510 | 51.2 | 48.6 | .246 | -0.2 |
| 1940 | 40 | 154 | 136 | 24 | 50 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 28 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 0 | .368 | .423 | .478 | .901 | 158.2 | 171.7 | .436 | 1.8 |
| 1941 | 41 | 157 | 138 | 21 | 35 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .254 | .331 | .326 | .657 | 97.5 | 95.5 | .324 | 0.7 |
| 1942 | 46 | 181 | 159 | 21 | 37 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .233 | .315 | .365 | .679 | 102.3 | 101.9 | .324 | 0.8 |
| 1943 | 42 | 175 | 156 | 24 | 39 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 17 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .250 | .331 | .301 | .633 | 98.9 | 94.7 | .315 | 0.8 |
| 1944 | 43 | 176 | 157 | 21 | 36 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .229 | .301 | .318 | .619 | 93.4 | 91.9 | .305 | 0.6 |
| 1945 | 50 | 224 | 196 | 50 | 58 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 22 | 0 | 11 | 0 | .296 | .373 | .398 | .771 | 123.9 | 125.6 | .368 | 1.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-06-27 | KCM @ HOM Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 1945-09-09 | PHS @ KCM Gameday | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1945-07-30 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1940-07-28 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1940-05-19 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-05-12 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-05-14 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-05-14 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-05-15 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-05-17 | MEM @ 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.