Jimmie Newberry
Birmingham Black Barons 1943; Cincinnati Clowns 1943; Birmingham Black Barons 1944–1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 7 | 21 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .158 | .238 | .158 | .396 | 34.7 | 23.6 | .209 | 0.0 |
| 1944 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .500 | 143.2 | 58.5 | .384 | 0.2 |
| 1945 | 12 | 26 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .083 | .120 | .125 | .245 | -14.4 | -28.2 | .122 | 0.6 |
| 1946 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .222 | -26.9 | -34.4 | .107 | 0.6 |
| 1947 | 8 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .077 | .143 | .077 | .220 | -20.9 | -40.1 | .123 | 0.3 |
| 1948 | 13 | 28 | 22 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .318 | .423 | .455 | .878 | 132.5 | 135.0 | .414 | 1.9 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 45 | 22 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 44.7 | 4.43 | 1.388 | 3.22 | 4.21 | 111.8 | 84.9 | 0.0 |
| 1944 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 11.3 | 3.18 | 1.235 | 4.76 | 3.73 | 110.8 | 106.0 | 0.2 |
| 1945 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 63 | 29 | 19 | 33 | 1 | 65.3 | 3.99 | 1.255 | 4.55 | 3.93 | 92.6 | 106.1 | 0.6 |
| 1946 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 1 | 24.0 | 2.25 | 1.000 | 6.38 | 3.35 | 81.6 | 182.2 | 0.6 |
| 1947 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 34 | 15 | 7 | 16 | 0 | 29.7 | 4.55 | 1.382 | 4.85 | 3.79 | 76.8 | 108.3 | 0.3 |
| 1948 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 70 | 17 | 12 | 33 | 1 | 58.3 | 2.62 | 1.406 | 5.09 | 3.82 | 79.0 | 184.5 | 1.9 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-08-14 | NYC @ BBB Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1948-05-02 | CLB @ BBB Gameday | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1948-07-04 | MEM @ BBB Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1945-07-08 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1943-08-07 | IC @ BBB Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-08-30 | BBB @ IC Gameday | 9.1 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 1946-07-07 | BBB @ CAG Gameday | 8.0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 1944-07-18 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 10.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 1945-08-25 | IC @ BBB Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 1947-08-12 | BBB @ BEG Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 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.