MLB / Players

Jo-Jo White

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornJune 1, 1909 · Red Oak, GA, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1932

Final gameSeptember 30, 1944

Seasons9 (1932–1944)

Detroit Tigers 1932–1938; Philadelphia Athletics 1943; Cincinnati Reds 1944; Philadelphia Athletics 1944

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified batters

139

63.8

577

62.3

500

60.1

68.8

124

56.5

47.8

76.8

26.1

RBI

76.8

22.5

87.7

22.5

.248

25.4

OBP

.335

38.4

SLG

.316

25.4

OPS

.651

30.4

wRC+

91.9

35.5

OPS+

89.8

34.1

wOBA

.320

30.4

sWAR

1.5

52.9

of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

86.6

18.1

OPS+

82.8

12.4

sWAR

4.9

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
1932	80	230	208	25	54	6	3	2	21	22	19	6	8	.260	.330	.346	.677	77.3	75.9	.317	0.0
1933	91	271	234	43	59	9	5	2	34	27	26	5	5	.252	.337	.359	.696	85.6	84.0	.329	0.3
1934	115	460	384	97	120	18	5	0	44	69	39	28	6	.313	.419	.385	.804	116.5	110.3	.387	2.5
1935	114	483	412	82	99	13	12	2	32	68	42	19	10	.240	.348	.345	.693	87.3	83.5	.333	0.9
1936	58	60	51	11	14	3	0	0	6	9	10	2	0	.275	.383	.333	.717	85.8	78.9	.349	0.1
1937	94	358	305	50	75	5	7	0	21	50	40	12	7	.246	.354	.308	.662	72.9	67.8	.322	0.0
1938	78	240	206	40	54	6	1	0	15	30	15	3	4	.262	.359	.301	.660	67.4	62.8	.322	-0.3
1943	139	577	500	69	124	17	7	1	30	61	51	12	4	.248	.335	.316	.651	91.9	89.8	.320	1.5
1944	109	407	352	39	79	6	2	1	26	50	34	5	4	.224	.326	.261	.587	74.4	69.5	.296	-0.3

Career totals

878

3,086

2,652

456

678

RBI

229

386

276

.2557

OBP

.3530

SLG

.3277

OPS

.6807

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
1943-07-17	ATH @ NYY Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	2	1	8
1944-08-26	CIN @ CHC Gameday	6	2	5	2	0	0	3	0	7
1933-06-10	DET @ CWS Gameday	5	2	2	0	1	1	1	0	7
1933-05-19	DET @ BOS Gameday	3	1	3	2	0	0	2	0	5
1937-05-03	CWS @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	0	2	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1932-04-13	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-14	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-15	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-16	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-17	BAL @ DET 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.