MLB / Players

Jim Elam

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 165 lb
BornJune 6, 1920 · Midlothian, VA, USA
Seasons1 (1943–1943)

Newark Eagles 1943

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
0.0
41.2

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1943913123510021000.417.462.500.962147.7156.8.4560.0

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1943961100046222111131.06.392.1613.195.87122.075.30.0

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

G
9
PA
13
AB
12
R
3
H
5
2B
1
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
2
BB
1
SO
0
SB
0
BA
.4167
OBP
.4615
SLG
.5000
OPS
.9615

Pitching

G (P)
9
GS
6
W
1
L
1
SV
0
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
31
SO (P)
11
BB allowed
21
ERA
6.387
WHIP
2.1613
K/9
3.19

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1943-06-19HSL @ NE Gameday412100103
1943-08-19NE @ PHS Gameday202000102
1943-05-20NE @ HOM Gameday101000001
1943-05-15NE @ PHS Gameday000000000
1943-05-16PHS @ NE Gameday000000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1943-05-29NBY @ NE Gameday6.0942250
1943-08-19NE @ PHS Gameday6.11177420
1943-06-19HSL @ NE Gameday6.01052210
1943-07-04NE @ HOM Gameday5.0322310
1943-07-18NBY @ NE Gameday2.0432311

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.