Jim Bagby
Boston Red Sox 1938–1940; Cleveland Indians 1941–1945; Boston Red Sox 1946; Pittsburgh Pirates 1947
Percentile snapshot
1945 season — qualified pitchers
of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 147 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 45 | 78 | 68 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .191 | .214 | .250 | .464 | 5.5 | 14.2 | .214 | 3.4 |
| 1939 | 21 | 37 | 34 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .294 | .314 | .441 | .755 | 83.7 | 88.9 | .338 | -0.9 |
| 1940 | 44 | 80 | 74 | 8 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .203 | .203 | .270 | .473 | 7.6 | 19.8 | .210 | 1.3 |
| 1941 | 35 | 79 | 74 | 5 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .243 | .253 | .257 | .510 | 32.0 | 39.1 | .237 | 1.9 |
| 1942 | 39 | 103 | 95 | 6 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .189 | .198 | .232 | .429 | 12.3 | 24.0 | .201 | 4.3 |
| 1943 | 41 | 114 | 112 | 7 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 0 | .268 | .274 | .295 | .569 | 61.3 | 70.8 | .269 | 3.2 |
| 1944 | 14 | 31 | 31 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .226 | .226 | .323 | .548 | 45.9 | 58.4 | .252 | -0.1 |
| 1945 | 25 | 61 | 58 | 6 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .293 | .317 | .310 | .627 | 80.9 | 85.7 | .302 | 0.9 |
| 1946 | 21 | 44 | 42 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .119 | .159 | .143 | .302 | -38.9 | -17.2 | .149 | 0.8 |
| 1947 | 37 | 36 | 32 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .219 | .242 | .281 | .524 | 25.9 | 36.3 | .241 | 0.6 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 43 | 25 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 218 | 93 | 90 | 73 | 9 | 198.7 | 4.21 | 1.550 | 3.31 | 4.37 | 88.5 | 117.3 | 3.4 |
| 1939 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 119 | 63 | 36 | 35 | 7 | 80.0 | 7.09 | 1.938 | 3.94 | 4.82 | 102.0 | 66.7 | -0.9 |
| 1940 | 36 | 21 | 10 | 16 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 217 | 96 | 83 | 57 | 15 | 182.7 | 4.73 | 1.642 | 2.81 | 4.75 | 105.5 | 95.1 | 1.3 |
| 1941 | 33 | 27 | 9 | 15 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 214 | 90 | 76 | 53 | 10 | 200.7 | 4.04 | 1.445 | 2.38 | 4.11 | 104.8 | 97.1 | 1.9 |
| 1942 | 38 | 35 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 267 | 89 | 64 | 54 | 19 | 270.7 | 2.96 | 1.223 | 1.80 | 3.78 | 109.6 | 116.7 | 4.3 |
| 1943 | 36 | 33 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 16 | 3 | 248 | 94 | 80 | 70 | 15 | 273.0 | 3.10 | 1.201 | 2.31 | 3.46 | 110.7 | 100.9 | 3.2 |
| 1944 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 101 | 38 | 34 | 12 | 2 | 79.0 | 4.33 | 1.709 | 1.37 | 4.02 | 121.1 | 76.6 | -0.1 |
| 1945 | 25 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 171 | 66 | 59 | 38 | 3 | 159.3 | 3.73 | 1.444 | 2.15 | 3.36 | 103.6 | 86.9 | 0.9 |
| 1946 | 21 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 117 | 44 | 49 | 16 | 4 | 106.7 | 3.71 | 1.556 | 1.35 | 4.04 | 110.1 | 98.9 | 0.8 |
| 1947 | 37 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 143 | 60 | 37 | 23 | 14 | 115.7 | 4.67 | 1.556 | 1.79 | 4.83 | 114.8 | 90.2 | 0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-04-30 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1944-08-21 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1942-05-27 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1941-06-07 | ATH @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1942-07-19 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-07-25 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| 1943-06-30 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 11.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 1 |
| 1943-05-22 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 |
| 1943-05-09 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 11.0 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1938-06-19 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 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.