Jim Starks
Kansas City Monarchs 1927; Memphis Red Sox 1927; Kansas City Monarchs 1933; Newark Dodgers 1934–1935; New York Cubans 1935; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1937; New York Black Yankees 1938; New York Black Yankees 1940–1942; Harrisburg-St. Louis Stars 1943; New York Black Yankees 1943–1944; Birmingham Black Barons 1945; New York Black Yankees 1945–1946
Percentile snapshot
1941 season — qualified batters
of 140 qualified 1941 batters (min 102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 6 | 22 | 21 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .318 | .333 | .652 | 75.8 | 74.6 | .304 | 0.0 |
| 1933 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .214 | .429 | .643 | 63.1 | 68.3 | .283 | 0.0 |
| 1934 | 28 | 108 | 94 | 17 | 25 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | .266 | .343 | .330 | .673 | 92.9 | 89.0 | .327 | 0.1 |
| 1935 | 29 | 113 | 99 | 21 | 28 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 0 | .283 | .360 | .525 | .886 | 115.0 | 120.7 | .392 | 0.4 |
| 1937 | 7 | 32 | 26 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .462 | .548 | .885 | 1.433 | 230.6 | 262.5 | .605 | 0.6 |
| 1938 | 15 | 56 | 51 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .294 | .345 | .510 | .855 | 115.9 | 123.2 | .382 | 0.2 |
| 1940 | 15 | 45 | 39 | 5 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .359 | .444 | .385 | .829 | 120.6 | 117.3 | .401 | 0.2 |
| 1941 | 33 | 124 | 112 | 23 | 35 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .313 | .379 | .500 | .879 | 135.9 | 144.8 | .399 | 0.8 |
| 1942 | 19 | 66 | 59 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .119 | .197 | .153 | .350 | 14.7 | 0.2 | .182 | -0.7 |
| 1943 | 12 | 50 | 45 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .222 | .286 | .356 | .641 | 72.5 | 70.3 | .306 | -0.1 |
| 1944 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .231 | .167 | .397 | 20.0 | 7.6 | .204 | -0.1 |
| 1945 | 11 | 41 | 38 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .184 | .244 | .237 | .481 | 42.4 | 36.1 | .237 | -0.2 |
| 1946 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 429.0 | 458.9 | .952 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935-06-01 | TIC @ ND Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 1941-04-13 | BBB @ NBY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1935-05-11 | HOM @ ND Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 1935-05-18 | ND @ PHS Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1937-08-14 | TIC @ PHS Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934-05-12 | ND @ PHS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-05-13 | PHS @ ND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-05-13 | PHS @ ND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-05-20 | PBG @ ND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-05-20 | PBG @ ND 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.