Jim Finigan
Philadelphia Athletics 1954; Kansas City Athletics 1955–1956; Detroit Tigers 1957; San Francisco Giants 1958; Baltimore Orioles 1959
Percentile snapshot
1955 season — qualified batters
of 82 qualified 1955 batters (min 480 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 136 | 560 | 487 | 57 | 147 | 25 | 6 | 7 | 51 | 64 | 66 | 2 | 8 | .302 | .381 | .421 | .802 | 120.0 | 116.2 | .375 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 150 | 615 | 545 | 72 | 139 | 30 | 7 | 9 | 68 | 61 | 49 | 1 | 3 | .255 | .333 | .385 | .718 | 88.5 | 90.0 | .334 | 1.4 |
| 1956 | 91 | 290 | 250 | 29 | 54 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 30 | 28 | 3 | 1 | .216 | .298 | .284 | .582 | 51.8 | 53.0 | .279 | -0.6 |
| 1957 | 64 | 204 | 174 | 20 | 47 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 23 | 18 | 1 | 1 | .270 | .357 | .316 | .673 | 88.3 | 85.0 | .320 | 0.5 |
| 1958 | 23 | 29 | 25 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .310 | .280 | .590 | 53.5 | 59.3 | .268 | 0.0 |
| 1959 | 48 | 130 | 119 | 14 | 30 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 0 | .252 | .300 | .328 | .628 | 75.0 | 75.8 | .290 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-06-18 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1954-09-05 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1954-06-15 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1955-05-25 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1954-06-06 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-08-12 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-08-31 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-09-25 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-08-23 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956-07-24 | BOS @ ATH 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.