Jim Ball
Boston Doves 1907–1908
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | 10 | 38 | 36 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .211 | .222 | .433 | 25.0 | 33.8 | .217 | -0.1 |
| 1908 | 6 | 17 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .067 | .125 | .067 | .192 | -48.0 | -38.9 | .108 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907-10-05 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1907-09-27 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1907-09-25 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1907-09-28 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1907-10-04 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907-04-12 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907-04-15 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907-04-16 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907-04-17 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907-04-18 | ATL @ PHI 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.