Ruben Jones
Birmingham Black Barons 1923–1925; Indianapolis ABCs 1926; Birmingham Black Barons 1927–1928; Chicago American Giants 1928; Little Rock Grays 1932; Memphis Red Sox 1940
Percentile snapshot
1926 season — qualified batters
of 159 qualified 1926 batters (min 266 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923 | 18 | 71 | 62 | 8 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .323 | .382 | .435 | .818 | 159.5 | 170.7 | .391 | 0.7 |
| 1924 | 43 | 143 | 130 | 16 | 30 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .231 | .275 | .292 | .568 | 59.5 | 55.6 | .272 | -0.4 |
| 1925 | 76 | 319 | 298 | 40 | 85 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 46 | 14 | 0 | 8 | 0 | .285 | .317 | .396 | .713 | 89.9 | 90.5 | .323 | 0.4 |
| 1926 | 65 | 287 | 269 | 47 | 84 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 53 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 0 | .312 | .344 | .480 | .824 | 105.8 | 110.1 | .370 | 0.9 |
| 1927 | 76 | 294 | 267 | 52 | 81 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 49 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 0 | .303 | .338 | .434 | .773 | 104.2 | 106.7 | .352 | 0.8 |
| 1928 | 51 | 183 | 167 | 25 | 51 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | .305 | .341 | .389 | .730 | 98.1 | 98.8 | .337 | 0.3 |
| 1932 | 10 | 39 | 37 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .297 | .333 | .459 | .793 | 132.9 | 140.8 | .372 | 0.3 |
| 1940 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .286 | .286 | .571 | 70.4 | 72.4 | .277 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5.0 | 5.40 | 1.600 | 1.80 | 6.42 | 122.3 | 97.2 | 0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-05-28 | MEM @ LRG Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1932-05-14 | LRG @ MON Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1932-06-05 | LRG @ MNT Gameday | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1932-06-04 | LRG @ MNT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1932-06-06 | LRG @ MNT Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-04-22 | MON @ LRG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-23 | MON @ LRG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-14 | LRG @ MON Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-15 | LRG @ MON Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-15 | LRG @ MON 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.