MLB / Players

Jim Greengrass

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 200 lb

BornOctober 24, 1927 · Addison, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1952

Final gameSeptember 30, 1956

Seasons5 (1952–1956)

Cincinnati Reds 1952–1953; Cincinnati Redlegs 1954–1955; Philadelphia Phillies 1955–1956

Percentile snapshot

1954 season — qualified batters

139

39.5

590

542

51.9

55.6

152

54.3

65.4

30.9

87.7

RBI

76.5

19.8

8.6

43.2

.280

43.2

OBP

.329

25.9

SLG

.494

OPS

.823

70.4

wRC+

106.7

53.1

OPS+

108.8

56.8

wOBA

.360

59.3

sWAR

1.7

30.9

of 82 qualified 1954 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.5

78.1

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
1952	18	75	68	10	21	2	1	5	24	7	12	0	0	.309	.373	.588	.962	162.4	162.6	.424	0.8
1953	154	656	606	86	173	22	7	20	100	47	83	6	4	.285	.340	.444	.784	99.6	100.8	.347	1.4
1954	139	590	542	79	152	27	4	27	95	41	81	0	3	.280	.329	.494	.823	106.7	108.8	.360	1.7
1955	107	409	362	44	92	22	2	12	38	42	52	0	2	.254	.331	.425	.756	101.7	100.1	.338	1.0
1956	86	246	215	24	44	9	2	5	25	28	43	0	0	.205	.294	.335	.629	69.4	70.5	.284	-0.4

Career totals

504

1,976

1,793

243

482

RBI

282

165

271

.2688

OBP

.3303

SLG

.4479

OPS

.7782

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1954-06-22	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	4	3	0	2	3	1	9
1953-05-31	ATL @ CIN Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	3	0	8
1954-04-13	ATL @ CIN Gameday	5	2	4	4	0	2	0	8
1955-08-04	PHI @ CIN Gameday	4	1	3	2	1	1	0	8
1954-08-11	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	3	2	0	2	2	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1955-05-29	PHI @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-06-14	PHI @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-07-07	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-07-31	PHI @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-08-17	PHI @ PIT 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.