MLB / Players

Jimmy Welsh

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 174 lb

BornOctober 9, 1902 · Denver, CO, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1925

Final gameSeptember 28, 1930

Seasons6 (1925–1930)

Boston Braves 1925–1927; New York Giants 1928; Boston Braves 1929; New York Giants 1929; Boston Braves 1930

Percentile snapshot

1928 season — qualified batters

124

60.3

526

63.8

476

66.3

74.9

146

74.4

63.3

56.3

80.9

RBI

64.8

54.3

21.1

40.2

32.2

.307

60.8

OBP

.357

47.7

SLG

.431

59.8

OPS

.787

57.3

wRC+

104.7

54.8

OPS+

105.6

56.3

wOBA

.361

53.8

sWAR

2.2

69.3

of 200 qualified 1928 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

7.3

83.4

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
1925	122	521	484	69	151	25	8	7	63	20	24	7	4	.312	.350	.440	.790	105.3	107.1	.356	1.5
1926	134	563	490	69	136	18	11	3	57	33	28	6	0	.278	.333	.378	.711	97.0	97.6	.332	1.0
1927	131	556	497	72	143	26	7	9	54	23	27	11	0	.288	.330	.423	.752	102.6	105.2	.345	2.1
1928	124	526	476	77	146	22	5	9	54	29	30	4	0	.307	.357	.431	.787	104.7	105.6	.361	2.2
1929	91	362	315	49	86	15	7	4	24	22	12	4	0	.273	.342	.403	.745	85.8	85.7	.341	0.4
1930	113	465	422	51	116	21	9	3	36	29	23	5	0	.275	.327	.389	.716	75.0	74.9	.322	0.1

Career totals

715

2,993

2,684

387

778

127

RBI

288

156

144

.2899

OBP

.3398

SLG

.4113

OPS

.7511

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
1925-05-01	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	1	2	0	9
1925-08-16	ATL @ SF Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
1927-06-10	ATL @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	5	2	7
1927-06-07	ATL @ STL Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	1	3	0	7
1927-05-28	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	1	1	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1925-04-14	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1925-04-16	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1925-04-17	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1925-04-18	PHI @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1925-04-22	ATL @ SF 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.