Jim Piersall

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornNovember 14, 1929 · Waterbury, CT, USA

MLB debutSeptember 7, 1950

Final gameMay 1, 1967

Seasons17 (1950–1967)

Boston Red Sox 1950; Boston Red Sox 1952–1958; Cleveland Indians 1959–1961; Washington Senators 1962; Los Angeles Angels 1963; New York Mets 1963; Washington Senators 1963; Los Angeles Angels 1964; California Angels 1965–1967

Percentile snapshot

1962 season — qualified batters

135

4.9

515

5.8

471

11.7

115

22.3

3.9

RBI

24.3

78.6

15.5

.244

7.8

OBP

.301

5.8

SLG

.329

OPS

.630

wRC+

69.0

4.9

OPS+

70.8

2.9

wOBA

.289

2.9

sWAR

0.0

2.9

of 104 qualified 1962 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

91.9

26.3

OPS+

92.4

26.9

sWAR

15.0

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	6	11	7	4	2	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	.286	.545	.286	.831	142.1	109.2	.447	0.1
1952	56	194	161	28	43	8	0	1	16	28	26	3	3	.267	.379	.335	.714	100.5	94.1	.349	0.7
1953	151	654	585	76	159	21	9	3	52	41	52	11	10	.272	.329	.354	.683	78.3	80.4	.320	-0.4
1954	133	520	474	77	135	24	2	8	38	36	42	5	1	.285	.338	.395	.732	90.9	92.6	.340	0.7
1955	149	599	515	68	146	25	5	13	62	67	52	6	1	.283	.364	.427	.792	105.1	105.8	.364	2.6
1956	155	681	601	91	176	40	6	14	87	58	48	7	7	.293	.350	.449	.799	98.7	100.9	.362	2.4
1957	151	687	609	103	159	27	5	19	63	62	54	14	6	.261	.331	.415	.746	99.3	98.2	.342	2.5
1958	130	469	417	55	99	13	5	8	48	42	43	12	2	.237	.303	.350	.653	71.9	74.5	.299	0.2
1959	100	354	317	42	78	13	2	4	30	25	31	6	3	.246	.303	.338	.641	78.9	79.3	.296	0.4
1960	138	522	486	70	137	12	4	18	66	24	38	18	5	.282	.313	.434	.747	99.3	103.0	.333	1.8
1961	121	536	484	81	156	26	7	6	40	43	46	8	2	.322	.378	.442	.820	123.6	121.5	.371	3.6
1962	135	515	471	38	115	20	4	4	31	39	53	12	7	.244	.301	.329	.630	69.0	70.8	.289	0.0
1963	89	304	270	26	63	6	1	2	19	21	30	5	3	.233	.285	.285	.570	60.2	62.6	.264	-0.3
1964	87	276	255	28	80	11	0	2	13	16	32	5	3	.314	.353	.380	.733	113.6	112.1	.333	1.2
1965	53	121	112	10	30	5	2	2	12	5	15	2	2	.268	.305	.402	.707	102.6	104.7	.318	0.3
1966	75	144	123	14	26	5	0	0	14	13	19	1	2	.211	.283	.252	.535	59.1	57.6	.255	-0.5
1967	5	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.4	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Career totals

1,734

476th-most career G

6,591

5,890

811

1,604

256

104

RBI

591

524

583

115

.2723

OBP

.3319

SLG

.3864

OPS

.7183

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
1956-05-25	MIN @ BOS Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
1954-05-31	ATH @ BOS Gameday	5	4	4	0	2	0	2	1	8
1961-07-29	CLE @ LAA Gameday	5	3	3	2	0	1	1	0	8
1960-07-22	CLE @ BOS Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	0	8
1953-06-10	BOS @ BAL Gameday	6	2	6	1	0	0	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1950-04-19	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-05-30	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-06-16	BOS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-06-17	BOS @ DET 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

2× Gold Glove2× 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.