MLB / Players

Jimmy Esmond

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 167 lb

BornAugust 8, 1889 · Albany, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1911

Final gameOctober 3, 1915

Seasons4 (1911–1915)

Cincinnati Reds 1911–1912; Indianapolis Hoosiers 1914; Newark Pepper 1915

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified batters

155

88.5

663

90.3

569

87.9

147

72.7

57.6

65.5

83.6

RBI

71.5

76.4

20.6

49.7

52.1

.258

35.8

OBP

.329

41.2

SLG

.355

OPS

.684

41.2

wRC+

101.1

38.8

OPS+

101.0

39.4

wOBA

.331

sWAR

3.2

75.2

of 166 qualified 1915 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

7.1

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
1911	73	217	198	27	54	4	6	1	11	17	30	7	.273	.330	.369	.699	97.7	99.6	.335	0.9
1912	82	263	231	24	45	5	3	1	40	20	31	11	.195	.259	.255	.514	44.3	43.6	.253	-0.6
1914	151	605	542	74	160	23	15	2	49	40	48	25	.295	.344	.404	.748	110.4	112.1	.353	3.6
1915	155	663	569	79	147	20	10	5	62	59	54	18	.258	.329	.355	.684	101.1	101.0	.331	3.2

Career totals

461

1,748

1,540

204

406

RBI

162

136

163

.2636

OBP

.3238

SLG

.3591

OPS

.6829

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
1912-04-21	STL @ CIN Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	1	3	0	5
1911-06-10	SF @ CIN Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	5
1911-08-07	ATL @ CIN Gameday	3	2	2	1	1	0	0	1	5
1912-07-18	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	0	3	0	4
1912-05-07	PHI @ CIN Gameday	3	1	3	1	0	0	2	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1911-04-12	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-15	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-16	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-17	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-18	STL @ 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.