Nippy Jones
St. Louis Cardinals 1946–1951; Philadelphia Phillies 1952; Milwaukee Braves 1957
Percentile snapshot
1948 season — qualified batters
of 94 qualified 1948 batters (min 480 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .429 | .333 | .762 | 127.4 | 115.8 | .378 | 0.1 |
| 1947 | 23 | 77 | 73 | 6 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .247 | .267 | .342 | .609 | 50.3 | 59.0 | .277 | -0.2 |
| 1948 | 132 | 523 | 481 | 58 | 122 | 21 | 9 | 10 | 81 | 36 | 45 | 2 | 0 | .254 | .307 | .397 | .704 | 82.4 | 86.3 | .322 | -0.5 |
| 1949 | 110 | 402 | 380 | 51 | 114 | 20 | 2 | 8 | 62 | 16 | 20 | 1 | 0 | .300 | .330 | .426 | .756 | 96.1 | 99.3 | .341 | 0.3 |
| 1950 | 13 | 29 | 26 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .310 | .269 | .580 | 51.6 | 51.9 | .278 | -0.1 |
| 1951 | 80 | 312 | 300 | 20 | 79 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 41 | 9 | 13 | 1 | 2 | .263 | .287 | .333 | .620 | 60.1 | 66.5 | .282 | -1.1 |
| 1952 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .267 | .433 | 3.0 | 19.7 | .192 | -0.3 |
| 1957 | 30 | 83 | 79 | 5 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .266 | .293 | .392 | .685 | 85.7 | 90.3 | .300 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-08-28 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1949-06-15 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
| 1949-08-21 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1948-05-23 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 7 |
| 1947-09-11 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-04-16 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-17 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-18 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-20 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-21 | STL @ CHC 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.