Jimmy Collins

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 178 lb

BornJanuary 16, 1870 · Buffalo, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1895

Final gameAugust 29, 1908

Seasons14 (1895–1908)

Boston Beaneaters 1895; Louisville Colonels 1895; Boston Beaneaters 1896–1900; Boston Americans 1901–1907; Philadelphia Athletics 1907–1908

Percentile snapshot

1907 season — qualified batters

140

579

522

145

RBI

.278

OBP

.332

SLG

.333

OPS

.665

wRC+

111.4

OPS+

111.0

wOBA

.328

sWAR

3.0

of 101 qualified 1907 batters (min 480 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

112.8

67.2

OPS+

115.5

72.3

sWAR

39.5

97.8

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1895	107	462	411	75	112	20	5	7	57	37	20	12	.273	.347	.397	.744	92.6	91.3	.353	1.1
1896	84	350	304	48	90	10	9	1	46	30	12	10	.296	.374	.398	.772	104.0	103.5	.371	1.4
1897	134	585	529	103	183	28	13	6	132	41	16	14	.346	.400	.482	.882	126.0	132.1	.414	4.0
1898	152	657	597	107	196	35	5	15	111	40	18	12	.328	.377	.479	.856	136.0	144.5	.407	5.4
1899	151	660	599	98	166	28	11	5	92	40	17	12	.277	.335	.386	.721	96.0	97.1	.345	2.1
1900	142	639	586	104	178	25	5	6	95	34	13	23	.304	.352	.394	.747	104.2	105.8	.356	2.7
1901	138	615	564	108	187	42	16	6	94	34	18	19	.332	.375	.495	.869	134.0	142.3	.400	4.9
1902	108	474	429	71	138	21	10	6	61	24	16	18	.322	.360	.459	.820	122.4	126.3	.378	3.0
1903	130	579	540	88	160	33	17	5	72	24	28	23	.296	.329	.448	.777	125.8	128.8	.355	4.1
1904	156	676	631	85	171	33	13	3	67	27	35	19	.271	.306	.379	.685	110.5	112.4	.322	3.5
1905	131	558	508	66	140	26	5	4	65	37	21	18	.276	.330	.370	.700	119.3	120.6	.337	3.5
1906	37	148	142	17	39	8	4	1	16	4	7	1	.275	.295	.408	.703	111.6	116.9	.332	0.8
1907	140	579	522	51	145	29	0	0	45	34	22	8	.278	.332	.333	.665	111.4	111.0	.328	3.0
1908	115	470	433	34	94	14	3	0	30	20	23	5	.217	.258	.263	.521	64.4	67.1	.257	-0.1

Career totals

1,725

485th-most career G

7,452

370th-most career PA

6,795

344th-most career AB

1,055

312th-most career R

1,999

299th-most career H

352

313th-most career 2B

116

109th-most career 3B

RBI

983

323rd-most career RBI

426

266

194

389th-most career SB

.2942

323rd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3435

SLG

.4088

OPS

.7523

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
1903-07-11	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	2	5	0	1	1	4	0	10
1901-08-13	ATH @ BOS Gameday	6	2	4	1	2	0	1	0	9
1903-06-06	CWS @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	0	4	1	8
1903-09-26	BAL @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	3	0	8
1902-05-16	ATH @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	2	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-26	BOS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	BOS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-30	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-05-01	BOS @ 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1945 (Old Timers)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.