MLB / Players

Jim Turner

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornAugust 6, 1903 · Antioch, TN, USA

MLB debutApril 30, 1937

Final gameSeptember 13, 1945

Seasons9 (1937–1945)

Boston Bees 1937–1939; Cincinnati Reds 1940–1942; New York Yankees 1942–1945

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified pitchers

38.3

52.1

73.4

56.4

54.3

SHO

187

43.6

63.8

76.6

27.7

55.3

187.0

58.5

ERA

2.89

89.4

WHIP

1.171

88.3

K/9

2.55

6.4

FIP

3.32

93.6

FIP-

87.7

79.8

ERA+

131.0

77.7

sWAR

4.1

75.5

of 95 qualified 1940 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

110.8

73.7

sWAR

16.6

91.9

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1937	39	106	96	10	24	3	0	0	7	2	7	0	.250	.273	.281	.554	54.3	57.7	.258	6.4
1938	35	105	96	5	22	4	0	0	5	3	14	0	.229	.267	.271	.538	52.8	56.0	.254	2.9
1939	25	59	55	5	13	1	0	1	6	1	4	0	.236	.250	.309	.559	45.8	54.1	.255	0.7
1940	25	76	75	7	18	5	1	0	2	0	3	0	.240	.240	.333	.573	48.2	57.9	.257	4.1
1941	23	44	41	2	6	2	0	0	2	1	5	0	.146	.167	.195	.362	-10.3	2.6	.171	1.6
1942	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.3	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1943	18	13	13	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.077	.077	.077	.154	-82.8	-54.6	.073	0.1
1944	35	11	10	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	.200	.273	.300	.573	58.1	61.9	.277	0.5
1945	30	12	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.091	.167	.091	.258	-38.8	-25.6	.143	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1937	33	30	20	11	1	24	5	228	68	52	69	13	256.7	2.38	1.091	2.42	3.68	103.1	149.7	6.4
1938	35	34	14	18	0	22	3	267	103	54	71	21	268.0	3.46	1.198	2.38	3.89	113.4	99.1	2.9
1939	25	22	4	11	0	9	0	181	75	51	50	10	157.7	4.28	1.471	2.85	4.05	109.8	86.1	0.7
1940	24	23	14	7	0	11	0	187	60	32	53	9	187.0	2.89	1.171	2.55	3.32	87.7	131.0	4.1
1941	23	10	6	4	0	3	0	120	39	24	34	5	113.0	3.11	1.274	2.71	3.20	89.7	114.9	1.6
1942	8	0	1	1	1	0	0	9	5	4	2	1	10.3	4.35	1.258	1.74	4.50	134.4	78.7	-0.1
1943	18	0	3	0	1	0	0	44	17	13	15	1	43.3	3.53	1.315	3.12	2.86	87.8	92.1	0.1
1944	35	0	4	4	7	0	0	42	16	22	13	3	41.7	3.46	1.536	2.81	4.44	127.0	101.3	0.5
1945	30	0	3	4	10	0	0	45	22	31	22	4	54.3	3.64	1.399	3.64	4.30	123.9	95.2	0.3

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

238

428

399

RBI

.2180

OBP

.2409

SLG

.2707

OPS

.5116

Pitching

G (P)

231

119

SHO

1,132

SO (P)

329

BB allowed

283

ERA

3.220

272nd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2420

300th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

2.62

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	TB
1939-05-30	ATL @ PHI Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4
1938-09-27	PHI @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	0	3
1940-06-02	ATL @ CIN Gameday	3	0	3	0	0	0	3
1938-08-30	ATL @ CHC Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	2	3
1940-06-16	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-05-18	PIT @ ATL Gameday	14.0	5	1	1	1	8	1
1937-08-29	STL @ ATL Gameday	9.0	10	2	2	0	6	0
1940-05-12	CIN @ STL Gameday	9.0	16	4	3	0	6	0
1939-07-16	CIN @ ATL Gameday	8.1	7	3	3	4	6	0
1937-09-08	PHI @ ATL Gameday	9.0	12	6	2	3	5	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.