MLB / Players

Jim Tabor

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 175 lb

BornNovember 5, 1916 · New Hope, AL, USA

MLB debutAugust 2, 1938

Final gameSeptember 17, 1947

Seasons9 (1938–1947)

Boston Red Sox 1938–1944; Philadelphia Phillies 1946–1947

Percentile snapshot

1946 season — qualified batters

124

40.2

509

45.4

463

45.4

42.3

124

46.4

29.9

15.5

75.3

RBI

50.5

42.3

28.9

36.1

.268

36.1

OBP

.322

22.7

SLG

.374

41.2

OPS

.696

30.9

wRC+

94.7

OPS+

97.7

wOBA

.330

sWAR

1.6

45.4

of 98 qualified 1946 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.1

33.9

OPS+

99.4

40.5

sWAR

13.1

89.7

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
1938	19	59	57	8	18	3	2	1	8	1	6	0	1	.316	.328	.491	.819	93.5	99.4	.363	0.2
1939	149	626	577	76	167	33	8	14	95	40	54	16	10	.289	.337	.447	.784	93.2	96.4	.354	1.7
1940	120	505	459	73	131	28	6	21	81	42	58	14	10	.285	.345	.510	.855	112.9	115.6	.377	2.6
1941	126	539	498	65	139	29	3	16	101	36	48	17	9	.279	.328	.446	.773	99.2	103.0	.351	1.9
1942	139	554	508	56	128	18	2	12	75	37	47	6	13	.252	.303	.366	.669	81.0	85.3	.315	0.8
1943	137	586	537	57	130	26	3	13	85	43	54	7	7	.242	.299	.374	.674	91.2	95.5	.320	1.6
1944	116	482	438	58	125	25	3	13	72	31	38	4	4	.285	.334	.445	.779	119.8	122.2	.362	2.9
1946	124	509	463	53	124	15	2	10	50	36	51	3	0	.268	.322	.374	.696	94.7	97.7	.330	1.6
1947	75	276	251	27	59	14	0	4	31	20	21	2	0	.235	.297	.339	.635	67.5	70.4	.296	-0.1

Career totals

1,005

4,136

3,788

473

1,021

191

104

RBI

598

286

377

.2695

OBP

.3218

SLG

.4176

OPS

.7394

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
1939-07-04	BOS @ ATH Gameday	4	5	3	0	3	9	1	12
1943-06-20	BOS @ ATH Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	2	0	10
1942-08-19	NYY @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	4	0	10
1941-07-25	CLE @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	1	9
1940-05-03	BAL @ BOS Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	3	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-04-18	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-19	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-19	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-21	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-23	BOS @ 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.