Jimmy Archer
Pittsburgh Pirates 1904; Detroit Tigers 1907; Chicago Cubs 1909–1917; Brooklyn Robins 1918; Cincinnati Reds 1918; Pittsburgh Pirates 1918
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 | 7 | 20 | 20 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .150 | .150 | .150 | .300 | -12.3 | -7.8 | .143 | -0.2 |
| 1907 | 18 | 48 | 42 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .119 | .196 | .119 | .315 | 2.5 | -0.7 | .172 | -0.2 |
| 1909 | 80 | 286 | 261 | 31 | 60 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 30 | 12 | 31 | 5 | 0 | .230 | .266 | .291 | .558 | 69.1 | 73.9 | .273 | 0.7 |
| 1910 | 98 | 344 | 313 | 36 | 81 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 41 | 14 | 49 | 6 | 0 | .259 | .293 | .371 | .663 | 90.2 | 96.6 | .317 | 0.8 |
| 1911 | 116 | 419 | 387 | 41 | 98 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 41 | 18 | 43 | 5 | 0 | .253 | .288 | .357 | .645 | 76.6 | 81.6 | .305 | 0.9 |
| 1912 | 120 | 426 | 385 | 35 | 109 | 20 | 2 | 5 | 58 | 22 | 36 | 7 | 0 | .283 | .330 | .384 | .715 | 94.0 | 96.4 | .338 | 2.1 |
| 1913 | 111 | 403 | 368 | 38 | 98 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 44 | 19 | 27 | 4 | 0 | .266 | .311 | .359 | .670 | 88.4 | 90.8 | .317 | 1.6 |
| 1914 | 79 | 262 | 248 | 17 | 64 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 0 | .258 | .284 | .310 | .595 | 71.5 | 76.6 | .285 | 0.7 |
| 1915 | 97 | 331 | 309 | 21 | 75 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 27 | 11 | 38 | 5 | 6 | .243 | .273 | .320 | .594 | 69.5 | 75.4 | .282 | 0.7 |
| 1916 | 77 | 228 | 205 | 11 | 45 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 30 | 12 | 24 | 3 | 0 | .220 | .269 | .283 | .552 | 65.0 | 68.8 | .267 | 0.5 |
| 1917 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -134.5 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1918 | 42 | 113 | 106 | 9 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .208 | .243 | .283 | .526 | 52.9 | 59.9 | .254 | 0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913-05-28 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 8 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1915-06-24 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1913-08-18 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1913-08-31 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1912-06-23 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904-04-15 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1904-04-16 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1904-04-17 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1904-04-18 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1904-04-19 | PIT @ CIN 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.