MLB / Players

Jim Wilson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 200 lb
BornFebruary 20, 1922 · San Diego, CA, USA
MLB debutApril 18, 1945
Final gameSeptember 14, 1958
Seasons12 (1945–1958)

Boston Red Sox 1945–1946; St. Louis Browns 1948; Philadelphia Athletics 1949; Boston Braves 1951–1952; Milwaukee Braves 1953–1954; Baltimore Orioles 1955–1956; Chicago White Sox 1956–1958

Percentile snapshot

1958 season — qualified pitchers

G
28
0
GS
23
11.3
W
9
18.9
L
9
77.4
SV
1
35.8
CG
4
1.9
SHO
1
20.8
H
156
88.7
ER
71
83
BB
63
54.7
SO
70
5.7
HR
21
45.3
IP
155.7
0
ERA
4.10
26.4
WHIP
1.407
18.9
K/9
4.05
18.9
FIP
4.53
3.8
FIP-
124.4
0
ERA+
88.8
11.3
sWAR
0.4
5.7

of 54 qualified 1958 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+
93.3
13.4
sWAR
10.7
87.7

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
194525585351330032700.245.286.302.58862.368.9.2841.8
19461000000000000-0.2
19484000000000000-0.2
19492330000000100.000.000.000.000-130.7-100.0.000-0.6
195120433947100211000.179.200.205.4052.212.8.188-1.0
1952339186414200821500.163.182.186.368-8.54.6.1720.4
19532040362600122300.167.211.250.46118.023.7.2100.8
19542748445730012800.159.196.227.4233.914.7.1941.6
1955349289415200411800.169.178.191.369-9.12.4.1733.0
1956358577923301951600.299.337.377.71490.190.8.3312.2
1957317968410200571400.147.227.176.4039.412.6.2042.6
195828605114000041600.078.161.078.239-35.2-30.4.1320.4

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19452321680821215388507144.33.301.4483.124.23123.3103.81.8
19461000000220010.727.003.0000.0021.95598.013.6-0.2
19484000000545102.713.503.7503.387.62169.733.3-0.2
19492000000785225.014.402.4003.609.89241.128.5-0.6
195120157715013166403314110.05.401.5552.704.64124.968.7-1.0
19523333121401402341109010419234.04.231.3854.003.79106.584.10.4
195320184905010755437116114.04.341.3165.614.40110.292.00.8
195427198206412950365212127.73.521.2923.673.79100.5106.91.6
195534311218014420090879617235.33.441.2203.673.7199.1108.83.0
195635281314073198998611320208.04.281.3654.893.9797.694.92.2
195730291580125189786510022201.73.481.2604.463.84102.3107.82.6
195828239914115671637021155.74.101.4074.054.53124.488.80.4

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

G
260
PA
599
AB
546
R
38
H
99
2B
16
3B
0
HR
2
RBI
34
BB
26
SO
108
SB
0
BA
.1813
OBP
.2209
SLG
.2216
OPS
.4425

Pitching

G (P)
257
GS
217
W
86
L
89
SV
2
CG
75
SHO
19
274th-most career SHO
IP
1,539
SO (P)
692
BB allowed
608
ERA
4.012
WHIP
1.3561
K/9
4.05

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1951-08-30CHC @ ATL Gameday523100204
1956-09-22ATH @ CWS Gameday513100104
1956-08-22CWS @ BOS Gameday411001204
1953-05-01ATL @ PHI Gameday411001104
1956-06-09CWS @ BOS Gameday513000003

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1952-08-23ATL @ CHC Gameday9.01211090
1957-05-09BOS @ CWS Gameday9.0500390
1957-04-21ATH @ CWS Gameday10.0300280
1956-08-01MIN @ CWS Gameday9.1953581
1956-06-09CWS @ BOS Gameday9.0700580

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

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.