MLB / Players

Jim Tobin

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornDecember 27, 1912 · Oakland, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 30, 1937

Final gameSeptember 23, 1945

Seasons9 (1937–1945)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1937–1939; Boston Bees 1940; Boston Braves 1941–1945; Detroit Tigers 1945

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified pitchers

88.1

86.9

66.7

2.4

38.1

83.3

SHO

281

1.2

107

2.4

15.5

36.9

8.3

255.0

92.9

ERA

3.78

22.6

WHIP

1.431

23.8

K/9

1.84

1.2

FIP

3.89

23.8

FIP-

103.9

23.8

ERA+

99.3

sWAR

3.0

64.3

of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

105.3

58.6

sWAR

28.8

96.3

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1937	21	38	34	7	15	4	0	0	6	4	3	0	.441	.500	.559	1.059	193.8	188.7	.484	2.4
1938	56	114	103	8	25	6	1	0	11	9	12	0	.243	.310	.320	.630	73.0	73.5	.298	3.9
1939	43	77	74	9	18	3	1	2	11	2	12	0	.243	.263	.392	.655	66.6	74.8	.294	0.9
1940	20	44	43	5	12	3	0	0	3	1	10	0	.279	.295	.349	.644	75.5	80.4	.295	1.1
1941	43	113	103	6	19	5	0	0	9	10	31	1	.184	.257	.233	.490	38.5	40.2	.242	3.9
1942	47	131	114	14	28	2	0	6	15	16	23	0	.246	.344	.421	.765	124.4	123.2	.362	2.0
1943	46	113	107	8	30	4	0	2	12	6	16	0	.280	.319	.374	.692	97.3	100.9	.328	5.5
1944	62	134	116	13	22	5	1	2	18	16	28	0	.190	.288	.302	.590	62.6	63.0	.286	6.2
1945	58	120	102	11	14	3	0	5	17	16	27	0	.137	.261	.314	.574	58.7	59.2	.281	3.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1937	20	8	6	3	1	7	0	74	29	28	37	1	87.0	3.00	1.172	3.83	3.25	84.0	129.0	2.4
1938	40	33	14	12	0	14	2	254	93	66	70	17	241.3	3.47	1.326	2.61	3.97	104.6	109.3	3.9
1939	25	19	9	9	0	8	0	194	73	33	43	7	145.3	4.52	1.562	2.66	3.57	92.0	85.8	0.9
1940	15	11	7	3	0	9	0	102	41	24	29	8	96.3	3.83	1.308	2.71	3.97	107.2	96.7	1.1
1941	33	26	12	12	0	20	3	229	82	60	61	12	238.0	3.10	1.214	2.31	3.46	97.7	114.4	3.9
1942	37	33	12	21	0	28	1	283	127	96	71	20	287.7	3.97	1.317	2.22	3.76	113.5	83.4	2.0
1943	33	30	14	14	0	24	1	241	74	69	52	12	250.0	2.66	1.240	1.87	3.53	106.2	124.8	5.5
1944	43	36	18	19	3	28	5	271	100	97	83	18	299.3	3.01	1.229	2.50	3.74	99.8	124.6	6.2
1945	41	31	13	19	1	18	0	281	107	84	52	12	255.0	3.78	1.431	1.84	3.89	103.9	99.3	3.0

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

396

884

796

183

RBI

102

162

.2299

OBP

.3026

SLG

.3455

OPS

.6481

Pitching

G (P)

287

227

105

112

424th-most career L

156

211th-most career CG

SHO

1,900

SO (P)

498

BB allowed

557

ERA

3.439

397th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3084

K/9

2.36

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
1942-05-13	CHC @ ATL Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	4	0	12
1943-07-04	PIT @ ATL Gameday	4	3	3	1	1	2	0	7
1943-06-26	ATL @ SF Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	2	0	6
1937-09-21	ATL @ PIT Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	1	0	5
1941-04-22	PHI @ ATL Gameday	5	1	3	2	0	1	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-09-19	PHI @ ATL Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	1	9	2
1938-07-24	ATL @ PIT Gameday	11.0	5	0	0	1	7	0
1944-04-27	LAD @ ATL Gameday	9.0	0	0	0	2	6	0
1942-06-10	ATL @ PIT Gameday	8.0	9	3	3	5	6	0
1944-07-01	ATL @ PIT Gameday	8.0	8	5	5	4	6	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

1× 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.