MLB / Players

Jimmy Austin

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 155 lb

BornDecember 8, 1879 · Swansea, Swansea, Wales

MLB debutApril 19, 1909

Final gameOctober 6, 1929

Seasons18 (1909–1929)

New York Highlanders 1909–1910; St. Louis Browns 1911–1923; St. Louis Browns 1925–1926; St. Louis Browns 1929

Percentile snapshot

1919 season — qualified batters

106

28.2

450

31.5

396

29.8

25.8

72.6

33.1

RBI

25.8

32.3

33.9

.237

16.1

OBP

.314

21.8

SLG

.313

OPS

.627

19.4

wRC+

72.5

9.7

OPS+

73.0

12.9

wOBA

.306

19.4

sWAR

0.2

16.1

of 125 qualified 1919 batters (min 434 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

90.0

OPS+

88.5

20.8

sWAR

16.6

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1909	136	500	437	37	101	11	5	1	39	32	61	30	0	.231	.285	.286	.571	76.5	78.0	.283	0.7
1910	133	511	432	46	94	11	4	2	36	47	56	22	0	.218	.305	.275	.580	79.4	76.9	.294	0.7
1911	148	650	541	84	141	25	11	2	45	69	95	26	0	.261	.351	.359	.709	100.7	98.7	.347	2.4
1912	149	604	536	57	135	14	8	2	44	38	83	28	18	.252	.306	.319	.625	79.8	80.0	.305	0.7
1913	142	559	489	56	130	18	6	2	42	45	51	37	0	.266	.338	.339	.677	100.1	99.6	.334	2.2
1914	130	523	466	55	111	16	4	0	30	40	59	20	23	.238	.300	.290	.590	77.6	79.5	.294	0.6
1915	141	578	477	61	127	6	6	1	30	64	60	18	15	.266	.355	.310	.666	106.0	102.3	.338	2.5
1916	129	508	411	55	85	15	6	1	28	74	59	19	0	.207	.333	.280	.613	94.2	87.2	.318	1.6
1917	127	534	455	61	109	18	8	0	19	50	46	13	0	.240	.319	.314	.633	95.6	94.9	.317	1.8
1918	110	442	367	42	97	14	4	0	20	53	32	18	0	.264	.359	.324	.683	112.2	107.5	.347	2.5
1919	106	450	396	54	94	9	9	1	21	42	31	8	0	.237	.314	.313	.627	72.5	73.0	.306	0.2
1920	83	330	280	38	76	11	3	1	32	31	15	2	4	.271	.352	.343	.695	84.2	81.7	.336	0.6
1921	27	75	66	8	18	2	1	0	2	4	7	2	1	.273	.324	.333	.657	62.3	64.0	.311	0.0
1922	15	34	31	6	9	3	1	0	1	3	2	0	0	.290	.353	.452	.805	104.3	105.8	.369	0.2
1923	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1925	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.2	-100.0	.000	0.0
1926	1	2	2	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	279.6	273.1	.659	0.1
1929	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.1	-100.0	.000	0.0

Career totals

1,580

6,302

5,388

661

1,328

174

319th-most career 3B

RBI

390

592

658

244

255th-most career SB

.2465

OBP

.3260

SLG

.3142

OPS

.6402

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	TB
1915-08-07	BAL @ NYY Gameday	5	2	5	0	1	1	3	10
1909-06-25	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5	0	4	0	1	0	3	6
1911-09-04	DET @ BAL Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	0	2	6
1911-10-08	DET @ BAL Gameday	6	2	4	2	0	0	0	6
1912-05-31	DET @ BAL Gameday	4	1	4	2	0	0	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1909-04-12	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-13	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-15	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-16	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-17	NYY @ ATH 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.