Jim West

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 218 lb

BornApril 23, 1905 · Birmingham, AL, USA

Seasons18 (1930–1948)

Birmingham Black Barons 1930; Memphis Red Sox 1930; Cleveland Cubs 1931; Birmingham Black Barons 1932; Memphis Red Sox 1932; Nashville Elite Giants 1933–1934; Columbus Elite Giants 1935; Washington Elite Giants 1936–1937; Baltimore Elite Giants 1938–1939; Philadelphia Stars 1939; Baltimore Elite Giants 1940; Philadelphia Stars 1940; New York Black Yankees 1941; Philadelphia Stars 1941–1945; Birmingham Black Barons 1947; New York Black Yankees 1947; Indianapolis Clowns 1948

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified batters

25.2

227

25.2

210

26.1

14.4

19.8

8.1

29.7

35.1

RBI

32.4

13.5

84.7

35.1

.267

34.2

OBP

.307

10.8

SLG

.348

28.8

OPS

.654

18.9

wRC+

82.1

17.1

OPS+

83.1

18.9

wOBA

.310

17.1

sWAR

-0.1

7.2

of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 124 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.7

82.4

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
1930	45	172	154	32	38	8	2	1	12	13	0	3	.247	.305	.344	.650	75.8	72.6	.302	-0.1
1931	33	125	114	13	16	6	0	1	11	10	0	1	.140	.210	.219	.429	27.3	19.5	.214	-1.0
1932	36	143	120	19	33	6	3	2	18	20	0	4	.275	.383	.425	.808	143.6	146.6	.390	1.0
1933	36	138	121	13	27	4	1	0	11	8	0	1	.223	.282	.273	.555	59.7	52.6	.263	-0.5
1934	33	117	104	12	25	2	2	0	13	8	0	1	.240	.301	.298	.599	72.6	68.2	.291	-0.3
1935	31	129	111	18	27	3	4	4	17	13	1	0	.243	.328	.450	.778	93.3	94.4	.350	0.1
1936	43	175	154	28	53	7	3	5	40	18	1	0	.344	.413	.526	.939	132.5	138.2	.426	1.1
1937	38	154	141	23	56	7	2	3	22	11	0	0	.397	.448	.539	.987	146.4	153.0	.443	1.3
1938	35	150	132	24	42	12	1	5	30	15	0	0	.318	.396	.538	.934	135.3	144.4	.420	1.0
1939	37	152	134	20	31	6	1	2	20	15	3	0	.231	.307	.336	.642	75.0	70.4	.304	-0.3
1940	63	248	223	29	73	15	4	0	31	21	5	1	.327	.388	.430	.818	111.2	113.1	.383	0.8
1941	56	209	177	19	44	1	2	3	22	25	2	1	.249	.348	.328	.676	94.7	90.1	.325	0.1
1942	56	231	202	29	58	10	4	3	42	28	0	1	.287	.374	.421	.795	122.8	126.4	.380	1.1
1943	49	216	184	37	58	5	7	2	44	29	1	2	.315	.417	.451	.868	126.8	131.7	.415	1.2
1944	50	219	198	34	72	14	2	1	33	16	1	2	.364	.417	.470	.886	133.4	137.1	.416	1.4
1945	51	227	210	26	56	5	3	2	36	13	0	0	.267	.307	.348	.654	82.1	83.1	.310	-0.1
1947	8	28	24	3	5	1	0	0	2	4	0	0	.208	.321	.250	.571	67.9	58.3	.292	-0.1
1948	3	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	.286	.286	.286	.571	54.9	53.3	.268	0.0

Career totals

703

2,840

2,510

379

716

112

RBI

406

267

.2853

OBP

.3575

SLG

.4032

OPS

.7607

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
1943-06-06	PHS @ HSL Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	2	5	0	10
1937-06-27	PHS @ BEG Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
1930-05-03	BBB @ MEM Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	2	0	9
1936-06-06	BEG @ TIC Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	1	4	0	8
1939-07-22	NBY @ PHS Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	1	3	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1930-04-25	CUB @ MEM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-26	CUB @ MEM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-27	CUB @ MEM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-27	CUB @ MEM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-28	CUB @ BBB 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.

Honors

4× 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.