Larry Jansen
New York Giants 1947–1954; Cincinnati Redlegs 1956
Percentile snapshot
1953 season — qualified pitchers
of 59 qualified 1953 pitchers (min 155 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 42 | 98 | 86 | 6 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .186 | .213 | .209 | .423 | 0.5 | 11.8 | .200 | 5.2 |
| 1948 | 42 | 106 | 95 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .137 | .172 | .168 | .340 | -21.2 | -8.1 | .163 | 3.7 |
| 1949 | 37 | 107 | 97 | 2 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .165 | .198 | .216 | .415 | 0.8 | 11.3 | .194 | 3.0 |
| 1950 | 40 | 108 | 96 | 6 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 26 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .192 | .219 | .411 | -4.2 | 8.1 | .188 | 6.0 |
| 1951 | 39 | 115 | 96 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 33 | 0 | 0 | .094 | .155 | .094 | .249 | -42.5 | -31.2 | .130 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 34 | 62 | 45 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .178 | .339 | .200 | .539 | 65.1 | 52.8 | .284 | 1.3 |
| 1953 | 36 | 69 | 60 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .212 | .133 | .345 | -11.2 | -7.6 | .176 | 2.0 |
| 1954 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .286 | .357 | .643 | 59.7 | 67.7 | .286 | -0.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .083 | .000 | .083 | -91.1 | -75.4 | .061 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 42 | 30 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 241 | 87 | 57 | 104 | 23 | 248.0 | 3.16 | 1.202 | 3.77 | 3.64 | 88.0 | 130.9 | 5.2 |
| 1948 | 42 | 36 | 18 | 12 | 2 | 15 | 4 | 283 | 111 | 54 | 126 | 25 | 277.0 | 3.61 | 1.217 | 4.09 | 3.45 | 86.3 | 110.8 | 3.7 |
| 1949 | 37 | 35 | 15 | 16 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 271 | 111 | 62 | 113 | 36 | 259.7 | 3.85 | 1.282 | 3.92 | 4.20 | 104.5 | 104.5 | 3.0 |
| 1950 | 40 | 35 | 19 | 13 | 3 | 21 | 5 | 238 | 92 | 55 | 161 | 31 | 275.0 | 3.01 | 1.065 | 5.27 | 3.36 | 81.7 | 136.7 | 6.0 |
| 1951 | 39 | 34 | 23 | 11 | 0 | 18 | 3 | 254 | 94 | 56 | 145 | 26 | 278.7 | 3.04 | 1.112 | 4.68 | 3.19 | 81.0 | 129.7 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 34 | 27 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 183 | 76 | 47 | 74 | 16 | 167.3 | 4.09 | 1.375 | 3.98 | 3.73 | 99.7 | 91.4 | 1.3 |
| 1953 | 36 | 26 | 11 | 16 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 185 | 85 | 55 | 88 | 24 | 184.7 | 4.14 | 1.300 | 4.29 | 4.28 | 99.5 | 103.8 | 2.0 |
| 1954 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 27 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 40.7 | 5.98 | 1.770 | 3.32 | 4.46 | 110.3 | 67.7 | -0.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 39 | 20 | 9 | 16 | 5 | 34.7 | 5.19 | 1.385 | 4.15 | 4.05 | 102.2 | 76.3 | -0.3 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-09-21 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1950-07-28 | STL @ SF Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 1953-05-04 | CIN @ SF Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1947-06-18 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1949-05-22 | SF @ STL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-08-18 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 8.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 0 |
| 1950-05-14 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 0 |
| 1950-06-13 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 |
| 1950-08-02 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 1951-08-27 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 12.0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.