MLB / Players

Larnie Jordan

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 182 lb

BornApril 23, 1914 · Valdosta, GA, USA

Seasons3 (1940–1942)

Philadelphia Stars 1940–1941; New York Black Yankees 1942

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified batters

17.3

178

18.7

168

22.3

26.6

61.9

20.9

RBI

25.2

2.9

71.9

45.3

42.4

.315

79.9

OBP

.347

41.7

SLG

.488

79.1

OPS

.835

67.6

wRC+

109.1

53.2

OPS+

115.5

60.4

wOBA

.379

66.2

sWAR

1.1

of 140 qualified 1940 batters (min 145 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

1.7

68.4

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1940	42	178	168	33	53	11	6	2	29	8	2	4	.315	.347	.488	.835	109.1	115.5	.379	1.1
1941	35	127	121	20	32	7	2	0	8	4	0	2	.264	.288	.355	.643	78.9	79.6	.297	0.2
1942	10	29	29	5	12	1	2	0	4	0	0	0	.414	.414	.586	1.000	167.9	183.7	.462	0.4

Career totals

334

318

RBI

.3050

OBP

.3303

SLG

.4465

OPS

.7768

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	RBI	TB
1942-06-13	NBY @ PHS Gameday	4	1	4	1	2	3	9
1941-06-30	PHS @ NYC Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	0	6
1940-06-27	HOM @ PHS Gameday	4	1	2	0	2	1	6
1940-07-13	HOM @ PHS Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	5
1940-09-02	HOM @ PHS Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	2	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1940-05-11	BEG @ PHS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-05-12	PHS @ BEG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-05-12	PHS @ BEG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-05-18	NE @ PHS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-05-18	NE @ PHS 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.