Jim Bolger
Cincinnati Reds 1950–1951; Cincinnati Redlegs 1954; Chicago Cubs 1955; Chicago Cubs 1957–1958; Cleveland Indians 1959; Philadelphia Phillies 1959
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -129.8 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1951 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1954 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 67.6 | 72.6 | .302 | 0.0 |
| 1955 | 64 | 173 | 160 | 19 | 33 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 2 | 2 | .206 | .257 | .288 | .545 | 39.9 | 43.9 | .248 | -0.7 |
| 1957 | 112 | 291 | 273 | 28 | 75 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 29 | 10 | 36 | 0 | 1 | .275 | .303 | .352 | .655 | 72.9 | 75.8 | .293 | -0.2 |
| 1958 | 84 | 131 | 120 | 15 | 27 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 20 | 0 | 1 | .225 | .285 | .300 | .585 | 55.5 | 56.2 | .272 | -0.5 |
| 1959 | 43 | 60 | 55 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .073 | .133 | .091 | .224 | -56.1 | -39.2 | .106 | -1.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-08-30 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1955-08-28 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1955-08-30 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1957-05-11 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1958-05-02 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-04-16 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-04-17 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-04-17 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-05-05 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-05-14 | SF @ CHC 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.