Jimmie Armstead
Indianapolis ABCs 1938; Birmingham Black Barons 1938; St. Louis Stars 1939; Baltimore Elite Giants 1940; St. Louis-New Orleans Stars 1940; Baltimore Elite Giants 1946
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 90.8 | 92.3 | .313 | 0.2 |
| 1939 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -91.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
| 1940 | 11 | 26 | 26 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .231 | .308 | .538 | 40.7 | 39.2 | .245 | -0.3 |
| 1946 | 13 | 48 | 35 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .171 | .370 | .257 | .627 | 93.9 | 76.2 | .335 | 0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 15.7 | 4.02 | 1.596 | 8.04 | 3.16 | 74.0 | 106.0 | 0.2 |
| 1939 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 45.00 | 6.000 | 0.00 | 12.51 | 315.9 | 8.8 | -0.4 |
| 1940 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1.0 | 18.00 | 3.000 | 27.00 | 3.73 | 90.3 | 22.9 | -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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-05-05 | TIC @ BEG Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1946-08-23 | PHS @ BEG Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1946-08-27 | NYC @ BEG Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1946-08-13 | IC @ BEG Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1940-05-19 | BEG @ HOM Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-05-22 | HSL @ KCM Gameday | 3.2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1938-08-10 | HSL @ KCM Gameday | 3.2 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 1940-03-24 | HSL @ JRC Gameday | 1.0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1938-05-15 | BBB @ ATL Gameday | 5.1 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 1938-08-14 | HSL @ KCM Gameday | 2.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 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.