MLB / Players

Jimmie DeShong

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornNovember 30, 1909 · Harrisburg, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 12, 1932

Final gameJune 10, 1939

Seasons7 (1932–1939)

Philadelphia Athletics 1932; New York Yankees 1934–1935; Washington Senators 1936–1939

Percentile snapshot

1937 season — qualified pitchers

67.7

92.7

71.9

11.5

56.3

92.7

SHO

290

3.1

144

2.1

124

67.7

264.3

93.8

ERA

4.90

WHIP

1.566

21.9

K/9

2.93

16.7

FIP

4.65

38.5

FIP-

104.9

32.3

ERA+

90.5

22.9

sWAR

1.5

36.5

of 97 qualified 1937 pitchers (min 158 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.0

76.9

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1932	6	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-115.1	-100.0	.000	-0.7
1934	31	54	42	5	8	0	0	0	7	5	0	.190	.320	.190	.510	52.4	39.4	.271	1.6
1935	29	18	14	0	1	0	0	0	2	4	0	.071	.188	.071	.259	-20.9	-28.2	.153	1.2
1936	35	97	79	15	15	1	1	9	10	8	1	.190	.281	.228	.509	35.5	29.8	.254	2.8
1937	37	108	94	9	19	1	1	8	10	16	0	.202	.279	.234	.513	34.7	33.2	.251	1.5
1938	31	48	46	5	12	0	2	7	1	4	0	.261	.277	.348	.624	54.8	59.9	.283	-1.2
1939	7	17	15	1	3	0	0	1	2	1	0	.200	.294	.200	.494	35.1	29.0	.252	-1.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1932	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	13	9	5	3	10.0	11.70	2.600	4.50	9.03	199.0	38.8	-0.7
1934	31	12	6	7	3	6	0	126	61	56	40	6	133.7	4.11	1.362	2.69	4.44	106.4	101.6	1.6
1935	29	3	4	1	3	0	0	64	25	33	30	6	69.0	3.26	1.406	3.91	4.87	117.6	127.1	1.2
1936	34	31	18	10	2	16	2	255	115	96	59	11	223.7	4.63	1.569	2.37	4.93	102.3	104.2	2.8
1937	37	34	14	15	1	20	0	290	144	124	86	15	264.3	4.90	1.566	2.93	4.65	104.9	90.5	1.5
1938	31	14	5	8	0	1	0	160	96	83	41	11	131.3	6.58	1.850	2.81	5.50	121.3	68.9	-1.2
1939	7	6	0	3	0	1	0	56	39	31	12	7	40.7	8.63	2.139	2.66	7.07	154.1	53.2	-1.3

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

176

345

293

RBI

.1980

OBP

.2791

SLG

.2321

OPS

.5112

Pitching

G (P)

175

100

SHO

873

SO (P)

273

BB allowed

432

ERA

5.084

WHIP

1.6043

K/9

2.82

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	RBI	TB
1936-07-05	NYY @ MIN Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	3
1937-08-17	MIN @ NYY Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	3
1937-08-14	BOS @ MIN Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	2	3
1936-06-02	BAL @ MIN Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	3
1938-04-27	BOS @ MIN Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1936-05-28	ATH @ MIN Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	1	6
1937-05-25	CWS @ MIN Gameday	8.0	6	5	5	7	6
1936-05-01	BAL @ MIN Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	5	5
1937-05-04	MIN @ CLE Gameday	8.0	4	0	0	4	5
1939-06-04	MIN @ BAL Gameday	7.0	9	5	5	6	5

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.