Jim Rivera
Chicago White Sox 1952; St. Louis Browns 1952; Chicago White Sox 1953–1961; Kansas City Athletics 1961
Percentile snapshot
1956 season — qualified batters
of 83 qualified 1956 batters (min 477 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 150 | 595 | 537 | 72 | 136 | 20 | 9 | 7 | 48 | 50 | 86 | 21 | 9 | .253 | .319 | .363 | .682 | 85.0 | 87.6 | .321 | 1.1 |
| 1953 | 156 | 639 | 567 | 79 | 147 | 26 | 16 | 11 | 78 | 53 | 70 | 22 | 15 | .259 | .329 | .420 | .749 | 98.8 | 100.9 | .344 | 2.2 |
| 1954 | 145 | 552 | 490 | 62 | 140 | 16 | 8 | 13 | 61 | 49 | 68 | 18 | 10 | .286 | .356 | .431 | .787 | 116.5 | 115.5 | .365 | 2.3 |
| 1955 | 147 | 530 | 454 | 71 | 120 | 24 | 4 | 10 | 52 | 62 | 59 | 25 | 16 | .264 | .352 | .401 | .753 | 102.6 | 102.9 | .350 | 1.4 |
| 1956 | 139 | 555 | 491 | 76 | 125 | 23 | 5 | 12 | 66 | 49 | 75 | 20 | 9 | .255 | .322 | .395 | .718 | 88.1 | 90.1 | .330 | 0.4 |
| 1957 | 125 | 451 | 402 | 51 | 103 | 21 | 6 | 14 | 52 | 40 | 80 | 18 | 2 | .256 | .326 | .443 | .769 | 106.9 | 109.7 | .344 | 1.1 |
| 1958 | 116 | 309 | 276 | 37 | 62 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 35 | 24 | 49 | 21 | 3 | .225 | .282 | .380 | .663 | 75.9 | 84.3 | .291 | -0.4 |
| 1959 | 80 | 192 | 177 | 18 | 39 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 11 | 19 | 5 | 3 | .220 | .266 | .384 | .650 | 70.1 | 78.9 | .284 | -0.4 |
| 1960 | 48 | 20 | 17 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | .294 | .400 | .471 | .871 | 144.0 | 137.5 | .399 | 0.1 |
| 1961 | 65 | 165 | 141 | 20 | 34 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 24 | 14 | 6 | 3 | .241 | .352 | .340 | .692 | 89.7 | 83.7 | .328 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-06-06 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 1957-06-29 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1954-07-09 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| 1955-08-11 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 8 |
| 1953-06-28 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-05-13 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952-05-15 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952-05-18 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952-06-14 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952-06-15 | ATH @ BAL 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.