MLB / Players

Jim Bagby

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornOctober 5, 1889 · Barnett, GA, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1912

Final gameSeptember 7, 1923

Seasons9 (1912–1923)

Cincinnati Reds 1912; Cleveland Indians 1916–1922; Pittsburgh Pirates 1923

Percentile snapshot

1921 season — qualified pitchers

78.4

58.6

63.1

95.5

50.5

SHO

238

38.7

100

24.3

61.3

12.6

10.8

191.7

47.7

ERA

4.70

11.7

WHIP

1.471

23.4

K/9

1.74

0.9

FIP

4.53

13.5

FIP-

105.1

24.3

ERA+

91.7

23.4

sWAR

1.0

of 112 qualified 1921 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

108.2

67.2

sWAR

25.3

95.4

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1912	5	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-110.3	-100.0	.000	0.1
1916	51	105	90	12	15	2	1	0	4	6	18	1	.167	.219	.211	.430	15.8	26.3	.217	3.8
1917	49	114	108	12	25	6	1	0	8	2	19	1	.231	.252	.306	.558	60.3	69.6	.270	6.4
1918	47	108	99	5	21	3	0	0	8	6	9	1	.212	.257	.242	.500	36.7	45.8	.251	3.7
1919	37	101	89	8	23	4	0	1	8	8	13	0	.258	.320	.337	.657	79.5	81.1	.317	4.5
1920	49	144	131	17	33	7	3	1	14	6	17	0	.252	.285	.374	.659	67.4	72.8	.304	7.4
1921	41	78	76	8	15	7	1	0	11	0	8	0	.197	.197	.316	.513	16.7	28.7	.228	1.0
1922	25	44	42	4	11	6	0	0	6	1	3	0	.262	.295	.405	.700	74.7	80.3	.319	-1.2
1923	21	25	20	3	1	0	0	0	1	3	1	0	.050	.174	.050	.224	-32.1	-38.4	.139	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1912	5	1	2	1	0	0	0	17	6	9	10	2	17.3	3.12	1.500	5.19	4.65	142.2	105.0	0.1
1916	48	27	16	16	5	14	3	253	79	67	88	2	272.7	2.61	1.174	2.90	2.60	87.9	113.5	3.8
1917	49	37	23	13	7	26	8	277	70	73	83	6	320.7	1.96	1.091	2.33	2.61	97.3	136.2	6.4
1918	45	31	17	16	6	23	2	274	81	78	57	0	271.3	2.69	1.297	1.89	2.62	88.9	109.9	3.7
1919	35	32	17	11	3	21	0	258	75	44	61	3	241.3	2.80	1.251	2.27	2.78	83.6	119.0	4.5
1920	48	38	31	12	0	30	3	338	109	79	73	9	339.7	2.89	1.228	1.93	3.56	93.1	132.2	7.4
1921	40	26	14	12	4	13	0	238	100	44	37	14	191.7	4.70	1.471	1.74	4.53	105.1	91.7	1.0
1922	25	10	4	5	1	4	0	134	69	39	25	5	98.3	6.32	1.759	2.29	4.38	107.9	64.3	-1.2
1923	21	6	3	2	3	2	0	95	40	25	16	6	68.7	5.24	1.748	2.10	4.77	119.0	76.4	-0.4

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

325

724

660

144

RBI

.2182

OBP

.2565

SLG

.2985

OPS

.5550

Pitching

G (P)

316

208

127

394th-most career W

133

286th-most career CG

SHO

354th-most career SHO

1,822

SO (P)

450

BB allowed

458

ERA

3.108

214th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2856

489th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

2.22

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
1917-08-21	ATH @ CLE Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	0	2	0	5
1920-08-27	CLE @ ATH Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	0	1	1	5
1917-09-12	CLE @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	0	0	0	5
1920-10-10	LAD @ CLE Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	3	0	5
1919-08-26	DET @ CLE Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1918-08-14	CLE @ NYY Gameday	9.0	5	2	1	3	8
1919-06-18	CLE @ NYY Gameday	9.0	11	3	2	0	8
1921-05-19	ATH @ CLE Gameday	11.0	11	3	3	3	6
1916-07-15	CLE @ MIN Gameday	8.2	8	3	2	0	6
1917-08-29	DET @ CLE Gameday	5.0	11	9	9	4	6

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.