Jim Small
Detroit Tigers 1955–1957; Kansas City Athletics 1958
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .200 | -26.2 | -41.5 | .152 | -0.1 |
| 1956 | 58 | 99 | 91 | 13 | 29 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .319 | .361 | .407 | .767 | 105.3 | 103.9 | .356 | 0.3 |
| 1957 | 36 | 44 | 42 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 2 | .214 | .250 | .262 | .512 | 33.2 | 39.8 | .241 | -0.3 |
| 1958 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .200 | -29.8 | -40.3 | .148 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956-09-01 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1956-07-24 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1956-09-03 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1956-07-30 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1956-09-04 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958-05-22 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958-05-23 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958-06-21 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958-09-23 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958-09-24 | CLE @ 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.