Jonas Gaines

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 155 lb

BornJanuary 9, 1915 · New Roads, LA, USA

Seasons10 (1937–1948)

Newark Eagles 1937; Washington Elite Giants 1937; Baltimore Elite Giants 1938–1939; Baltimore Elite Giants 1941; Chicago American Giants 1941; Baltimore Elite Giants 1942; Baltimore Elite Giants 1944–1948

Percentile snapshot

1948 season — qualified pitchers

2.8

11.1

16.7

95.8

13.9

SHO

93.1

90.3

93.1

94.4

83.3

8.3

ERA

3.02

80.6

WHIP

1.200

86.1

K/9

6.37

97.2

FIP

2.87

97.2

FIP-

80.8

88.9

ERA+

117.3

65.3

sWAR

1.1

23.6

of 73 qualified 1948 pitchers (min 73 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.7

86.5

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1937	7	11	10	2	3	1	0	1	0	.300	.364	.400	.764	98.3	97.2	.351	-0.5
1938	5	10	6	2	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	48.2	-5.2	.251	0.2
1939	8	20	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-82.6	-100.0	.000	0.1
1941	12	29	27	1	2	0	1	1	4	.074	.107	.074	.181	-34.4	-48.5	.093	1.8
1942	10	33	29	2	5	0	1	2	4	.172	.226	.172	.398	25.6	14.2	.202	3.0
1944	8	16	14	0	0	0	1	2	0	.000	.125	.000	.125	-37.9	-64.6	.096	0.9
1945	1	4	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	15.4	-26.8	.192	0.3
1946	17	35	28	3	7	0	3	3	0	.250	.344	.250	.594	77.6	66.8	.305	1.9
1947	13	28	25	1	3	0	2	1	0	.120	.185	.120	.305	-5.2	-15.6	.162	0.9
1948	15	33	28	2	2	0	1	2	0	.071	.133	.071	.205	-32.1	-40.0	.114	1.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1937	7	3	1	3	0	0	0	32	24	18	12	1	26.3	8.20	1.899	4.10	5.78	115.8	60.8	-0.5
1938	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	24	12	12	15	2	21.7	4.98	1.662	6.23	5.44	107.6	101.4	0.2
1939	7	6	2	4	0	5	1	52	26	13	20	0	46.3	5.05	1.403	3.88	3.76	77.6	95.9	0.1
1941	11	8	5	3	2	5	4	55	18	15	60	1	67.7	2.39	1.034	7.98	2.81	63.7	184.3	1.8
1942	10	9	5	3	0	8	1	57	15	32	58	2	84.7	1.59	1.051	6.17	3.36	85.7	246.0	3.0
1944	8	6	3	2	1	3	0	50	15	13	20	0	44.0	3.07	1.432	4.09	3.78	87.7	140.7	0.9
1945	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	7	1	0	9.0	2.00	1.222	1.00	6.17	149.6	206.1	0.3
1946	16	13	8	5	1	6	1	82	35	31	45	4	89.7	3.51	1.260	4.52	4.30	97.5	125.7	1.9
1947	12	9	4	4	0	5	0	82	27	26	55	0	66.0	3.68	1.636	7.50	3.22	77.8	112.4	0.9
1948	11	11	7	3	0	6	0	74	28	26	59	1	83.3	3.02	1.200	6.37	2.87	80.8	117.3	1.1

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

219

189

RBI

.1164

OBP

.1932

SLG

.1217

OPS

.3149

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

539

SO (P)

345

BB allowed

193

ERA

3.375

WHIP

1.3088

K/9

5.76

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	RBI	TB
1946-07-10	BEG @ PHS Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	2
1937-06-26	NE @ PHS Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	2
1947-07-22	BBB @ BEG Gameday	3	0	1	0	2	1
1942-08-23	NYC @ BEG Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	1
1946-06-23	BEG @ NBY Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1941-08-13	BEG @ HSL Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	2	19	0
1942-09-06	PHS @ BEG Gameday	10.1	9	3	1	2	10	0
1942-08-07	HOM @ BEG Gameday	9.0	7	7	3	6	10	2
1948-06-22	HOM @ BEG Gameday	9.0	8	5	3	5	10	0
1938-07-02	BEG @ PHS Gameday	8.2	8	8	5	8	10	1

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

3× 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.