Jimmy Walsh

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 170 lb

BornAugust 24, 1887 · Rathroe, County Tipperary, Ireland

MLB debutAugust 26, 1912

Final gameOctober 4, 1917

Seasons6 (1912–1917)

Philadelphia Athletics 1912–1913; New York Yankees 1914; Philadelphia Athletics 1914–1915; Boston Red Sox 1916; Philadelphia Athletics 1916; Boston Red Sox 1917

Percentile snapshot

1916 season — qualified batters

128

41.2

485

407

38.7

37.8

38.7

52.1

32.8

RBI

36.1

80.7

44.5

89.1

20.2

.231

OBP

.330

43.7

SLG

.302

18.5

OPS

.632

24.4

wRC+

92.8

27.7

OPS+

89.6

26.1

wOBA

.321

31.9

sWAR

0.5

26.1

of 120 qualified 1916 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.6

78.5

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
1912	31	121	107	11	27	8	2	0	15	12	9	7	6	.252	.328	.364	.692	101.2	101.9	.337	0.3
1913	97	355	303	56	77	16	5	0	27	38	40	15	0	.254	.341	.340	.681	103.5	101.8	.338	1.2
1914	111	439	352	48	77	12	9	4	47	59	48	12	21	.219	.337	.338	.675	108.0	103.9	.340	1.5
1915	117	488	417	48	86	15	6	1	20	57	64	22	12	.206	.306	.278	.584	77.7	74.8	.299	0.0
1916	128	485	407	47	94	14	6	1	29	58	38	30	16	.231	.330	.302	.632	92.8	89.6	.321	0.5
1917	57	212	185	25	49	6	3	0	12	25	14	6	0	.265	.352	.330	.682	114.5	111.2	.343	1.2

Career totals

541

2,100

1,771

235

410

RBI

150

249

213

.2315

OBP

.3299

SLG

.3168

OPS

.6467

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
1913-06-13	CLE @ ATH Gameday	5	1	3	0	2	0	0	0	7
1914-07-16	CWS @ ATH Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	1	6	0	6
1916-05-22	CLE @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	3	0	6
1917-05-29	BOS @ MIN Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	0	2	0	6
1913-09-23	DET @ ATH Gameday	5	5	4	1	0	0	1	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1912-08-24	BAL @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-08-24	BAL @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-08-26	DET @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-08-27	DET @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-08-28	DET @ 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.