Jim Busby

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornJanuary 8, 1927 · Kenedy, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 23, 1950

Final gameJuly 8, 1962

Seasons13 (1950–1962)

Chicago White Sox 1950–1952; Washington Senators 1952–1954; Chicago White Sox 1955; Washington Senators 1955; Cleveland Indians 1956; Baltimore Orioles 1957; Cleveland Indians 1957; Baltimore Orioles 1958; Boston Red Sox 1959; Baltimore Orioles 1960; Boston Red Sox 1960; Baltimore Orioles 1961; Houston Colt .45's 1962

Percentile snapshot

1956 season — qualified batters

135

13.4

546

23.2

494

36.6

116

15.9

25.6

37.8

RBI

18.3

25.6

73.2

46.3

.235

6.1

OBP

.301

6.1

SLG

.354

17.1

OPS

.656

9.8

wRC+

70.4

3.7

OPS+

72.6

6.1

wOBA

.305

sWAR

0.0

4.9

of 83 qualified 1956 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

80.8

11.1

OPS+

83.0

sWAR

6.6

82.3

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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
1950	18	50	48	5	10	0	0	0	4	1	5	0	2	.208	.224	.208	.433	3.5	13.0	.206	-0.4
1951	143	524	477	59	135	15	2	5	68	40	46	26	11	.283	.344	.354	.698	91.6	92.0	.331	1.4
1952	145	589	551	63	130	24	4	2	47	24	55	5	8	.236	.273	.305	.578	56.0	63.4	.272	-0.9
1953	150	635	586	68	183	28	7	6	82	38	45	13	6	.312	.358	.415	.773	110.2	111.0	.357	3.1
1954	155	686	628	83	187	22	7	7	80	43	56	17	2	.298	.342	.389	.731	102.9	104.8	.339	2.8
1955	146	578	528	61	126	19	6	7	41	38	59	12	3	.239	.289	.337	.626	65.3	68.6	.293	-0.3
1956	135	546	494	72	116	17	3	12	50	43	47	8	3	.235	.301	.354	.656	70.4	72.6	.305	0.0
1957	116	397	362	40	86	12	2	5	23	24	44	6	4	.238	.284	.323	.607	68.4	70.6	.282	0.0
1958	113	245	215	32	51	7	2	3	19	24	37	6	4	.237	.320	.330	.650	88.2	85.3	.305	0.7
1959	61	110	102	16	23	8	0	1	5	5	18	0	1	.225	.266	.333	.599	55.5	60.0	.273	-0.2
1960	80	183	159	25	41	7	1	0	12	20	14	2	3	.258	.341	.314	.655	84.8	81.4	.311	0.4
1961	75	99	89	15	23	3	1	0	6	8	10	2	0	.258	.316	.315	.631	75.0	74.0	.294	0.1
1962	15	13	11	2	2	0	0	0	1	2	3	0	1	.182	.308	.182	.490	51.5	39.4	.256	0.0

Career totals

1,352

4,655

4,250

541

1,113

162

RBI

438

310

439

.2619

OBP

.3145

SLG

.3504

OPS

.6649

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
1953-04-26	MIN @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	2	5	0	11
1955-05-02	MIN @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
1951-06-05	BOS @ CWS Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	3	1	8
1952-09-14	MIN @ DET Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	1	1	0	8
1954-04-21	MIN @ ATH Gameday	6	1	4	1	1	0	4	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1950-04-30	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-05-30	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-06-07	CWS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-06-09	CWS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-06-20	BOS @ CWS 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

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.