MLB / Players

Jimmy Dykes

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 185 lb

BornNovember 10, 1896 · Philadelphia, PA, USA

MLB debutMay 6, 1918

Final gameOctober 1, 1939

Seasons22 (1918–1939)

Philadelphia Athletics 1918–1932; Chicago White Sox 1933–1939

Percentile snapshot

1936 season — qualified batters

127

32.5

511

31.7

435

116

25.8

21.7

51.7

RBI

44.2

6.7

26.7

.267

12.5

OBP

.362

42.5

SLG

.366

OPS

.728

26.7

wRC+

81.4

17.5

OPS+

78.4

13.3

wOBA

.345

30.8

sWAR

0.6

28.3

of 121 qualified 1936 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

97.9

37.6

OPS+

96.2

33.8

sWAR

30.1

96.5

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
1918	59	213	186	13	35	3	3	0	13	19	32	3	0	.188	.267	.237	.504	45.9	49.3	.260	-0.5
1919	17	56	49	4	9	1	0	0	1	7	11	0	0	.184	.286	.204	.490	39.3	36.7	.255	-0.2
1920	142	637	546	81	140	25	4	8	35	55	73	6	9	.256	.334	.361	.695	81.9	81.5	.331	0.9
1921	155	701	613	88	168	32	13	16	77	60	75	6	5	.274	.353	.447	.800	99.3	100.6	.368	2.5
1922	145	581	501	66	138	23	7	12	68	55	98	6	2	.275	.359	.421	.780	99.3	98.9	.363	2.1
1923	124	472	416	50	105	28	1	4	43	35	40	6	4	.252	.318	.353	.671	72.9	74.8	.319	0.2
1924	110	460	410	68	128	26	6	3	50	38	60	1	3	.312	.372	.427	.799	103.5	104.2	.376	1.9
1925	122	533	465	93	150	32	11	5	55	46	49	3	2	.323	.393	.471	.864	114.4	114.7	.400	2.9
1926	124	499	429	54	123	32	5	1	44	49	34	6	2	.287	.370	.392	.762	98.5	96.8	.362	1.7
1927	121	480	417	61	135	33	6	3	60	44	23	2	3	.324	.394	.453	.847	118.0	117.3	.394	2.1
1928	85	286	242	39	67	11	0	5	30	27	21	2	1	.277	.361	.384	.746	98.1	95.9	.351	1.0
1929	119	476	401	76	131	34	6	13	79	51	25	8	3	.327	.412	.539	.950	141.8	142.3	.427	4.4
1930	125	535	435	69	131	28	4	6	73	74	53	3	3	.301	.414	.425	.840	117.1	112.6	.390	3.1
1931	101	414	355	48	97	28	2	3	46	49	47	1	2	.273	.371	.389	.759	100.1	97.1	.358	1.5
1932	153	647	558	71	148	29	5	7	90	77	65	8	2	.265	.358	.373	.731	91.3	88.5	.344	1.6
1933	151	641	554	49	144	22	6	1	68	69	37	3	7	.260	.354	.327	.681	87.9	83.2	.329	1.3
1934	127	536	456	52	122	17	4	7	82	64	28	1	1	.268	.363	.368	.731	88.6	85.9	.348	0.9
1935	117	473	403	45	116	24	2	4	61	59	28	4	3	.288	.381	.387	.769	100.2	96.9	.364	1.5
1936	127	511	435	62	116	16	3	7	60	61	36	1	3	.267	.362	.366	.728	81.4	78.4	.345	0.6
1937	30	96	85	10	26	5	0	1	23	9	7	0	0	.306	.372	.400	.772	96.8	95.6	.358	0.2
1938	26	99	89	9	27	4	2	2	13	10	8	0	0	.303	.374	.461	.834	106.4	107.4	.381	0.4
1939	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-115.6	-100.0	.000	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1927	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	2.0	4.50	1.500	0.00	4.56	108.4	93.5	2.1

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

2,282

121st-most career G

9,347

134th-most career PA

8,046

149th-most career AB

1,108

261st-most career R

2,256

169th-most career H

453

107th-most career 2B

215th-most career 3B

108

RBI

1,071

245th-most career RBI

958

146th-most career BB

850

.2804

OBP

.3651

374th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3993

OPS

.7644

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

4.500

WHIP

1.5000

K/9

0.00

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
1925-10-02	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5	4	5	0	1	1	3	0	10
1935-05-26	CWS @ ATH Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	3	1	10
1921-06-14	BAL @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	5	1	9
1925-05-30	NYY @ ATH Gameday	6	3	4	1	0	1	1	1	8
1920-06-20	ATH @ CWS Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	0	0	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB
1927-10-01	BOS @ ATH Gameday	1.0	0	0	0	1
1927-10-02	ATH @ MIN Gameday	1.0	2	1	1	0
1918-04-15	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1918-04-16	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1918-04-17	ATH @ BOS Gameday	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

2× All-Star

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