Jim Essian
Philadelphia Phillies 1973–1975; Chicago White Sox 1976–1977; Oakland Athletics 1978–1980; Chicago White Sox 1981; Seattle Mariners 1982; Cleveland Indians 1983; Oakland Athletics 1984
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -129.2 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1974 | 17 | 22 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .182 | .100 | .282 | -25.2 | -20.7 | .155 | -0.1 |
| 1975 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 451.8 | 450.8 | .853 | 0.1 |
| 1976 | 78 | 229 | 199 | 20 | 49 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 23 | 28 | 2 | 1 | .246 | .326 | .281 | .607 | 84.1 | 78.8 | .299 | 1.1 |
| 1977 | 114 | 381 | 322 | 50 | 88 | 18 | 2 | 10 | 44 | 52 | 35 | 1 | 4 | .273 | .374 | .435 | .809 | 125.0 | 120.0 | .368 | 3.4 |
| 1978 | 126 | 340 | 278 | 21 | 62 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 26 | 44 | 22 | 2 | 1 | .223 | .326 | .295 | .621 | 85.4 | 80.2 | .300 | 1.6 |
| 1979 | 98 | 352 | 313 | 34 | 76 | 16 | 0 | 8 | 40 | 25 | 29 | 0 | 1 | .243 | .295 | .371 | .666 | 81.0 | 83.2 | .299 | 0.9 |
| 1980 | 87 | 321 | 285 | 19 | 66 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 29 | 30 | 18 | 1 | 3 | .232 | .302 | .323 | .625 | 79.8 | 77.4 | .293 | 0.8 |
| 1981 | 27 | 57 | 52 | 6 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | .308 | .357 | .365 | .723 | 115.9 | 111.6 | .340 | 0.5 |
| 1982 | 48 | 165 | 153 | 14 | 42 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 0 | .275 | .327 | .386 | .713 | 94.7 | 93.0 | .324 | 0.9 |
| 1983 | 48 | 112 | 93 | 11 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 1 | .204 | .315 | .312 | .627 | 75.8 | 71.2 | .297 | 0.5 |
| 1984 | 63 | 162 | 136 | 17 | 32 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 23 | 17 | 1 | 1 | .235 | .348 | .346 | .693 | 105.5 | 98.4 | .327 | 1.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-04-11 | SEA @ ATH Gameday | 6 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| 1980-07-28 | ATH @ TOR Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1979-07-01 | ATH @ TEX Gameday | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1977-06-26 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1977-07-03 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
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.