Sad Sam Jones

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornJuly 26, 1892 · Woodsfield, OH, USA

MLB debutJune 13, 1914

Final gameSeptember 28, 1935

Seasons22 (1914–1935)

Cleveland Naps 1914; Cleveland Indians 1915; Boston Red Sox 1916–1921; New York Yankees 1922–1926; St. Louis Browns 1927; Washington Senators 1928–1931; Chicago White Sox 1932–1935

Percentile snapshot

1934 season — qualified pitchers

37.3

61.8

38.2

22.5

55.9

SHO

37.3

217

40.2

104

21.6

41.2

44.1

6.9

183.3

ERA

5.11

17.6

WHIP

1.511

31.4

K/9

2.95

26.5

FIP

4.65

25.5

FIP-

100.1

42.2

ERA+

90.9

21.6

sWAR

1.2

36.3

of 103 qualified 1934 pitchers (min 153 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.4

51.4

sWAR

46.0

98.5

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
1914	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	202.6	194.5	.483	0.1
1915	48	41	32	4	5	0	0	0	1	6	15	0	0	.156	.289	.156	.446	42.7	31.3	.251	0.3
1916	13	6	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	97.3	103.4	.323	0.0
1917	9	5	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.6	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1918	24	73	57	6	10	1	0	0	1	13	14	0	0	.175	.329	.193	.522	74.6	60.3	.290	3.1
1919	35	97	81	4	11	2	1	0	5	9	21	0	0	.136	.239	.185	.424	25.8	23.4	.222	0.3
1920	44	103	92	12	20	3	1	0	5	4	27	0	0	.217	.265	.272	.537	43.7	45.5	.258	1.9
1921	43	114	100	11	24	3	1	2	14	10	25	1	1	.240	.321	.350	.671	74.2	73.6	.318	6.3
1922	45	102	87	14	23	9	0	1	8	6	28	1	0	.264	.347	.402	.749	94.4	94.2	.350	4.4
1923	39	98	85	13	19	3	0	0	6	10	28	0	0	.224	.305	.259	.564	52.0	49.9	.281	3.4
1924	36	60	51	4	9	3	0	1	5	3	14	0	0	.176	.222	.294	.516	25.2	33.0	.242	2.8
1925	46	95	80	2	13	2	0	0	3	3	19	1	0	.163	.212	.188	.399	0.6	3.2	.197	1.2
1926	44	58	49	3	10	1	0	0	4	3	16	1	0	.204	.264	.224	.489	28.2	30.2	.242	-0.2
1927	32	65	55	2	6	2	0	0	3	7	18	0	0	.109	.246	.145	.392	7.3	1.3	.215	1.7
1928	37	94	79	13	20	5	1	2	11	6	9	0	0	.253	.306	.418	.724	85.8	89.4	.329	5.6
1929	28	63	51	6	8	1	1	0	3	8	15	1	0	.157	.283	.216	.499	37.2	30.6	.255	2.0
1930	30	78	61	9	9	0	0	0	10	11	21	0	1	.148	.297	.148	.445	33.3	17.5	.243	2.7
1931	30	60	48	8	15	2	0	0	5	5	10	0	0	.313	.389	.354	.743	102.9	98.4	.355	1.8
1932	39	74	57	12	11	2	0	0	5	9	22	1	0	.193	.303	.228	.531	51.2	42.8	.267	2.2
1933	37	67	58	10	9	1	0	0	3	8	10	1	1	.155	.258	.172	.430	23.8	16.9	.224	3.3
1934	31	73	60	9	12	3	0	0	6	8	13	0	1	.200	.304	.250	.554	46.0	42.0	.278	1.2
1935	22	61	48	8	8	1	0	0	1	10	16	0	0	.167	.310	.188	.498	39.3	29.8	.265	2.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1914	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	3.3	2.70	1.200	0.00	4.14	145.3	105.6	0.1
1915	48	9	4	9	4	2	0	131	59	63	42	0	145.7	3.65	1.332	2.59	3.12	103.0	83.0	0.3
1916	12	0	0	1	1	0	0	25	11	10	7	0	27.0	3.67	1.296	2.33	2.92	106.4	74.8	0.0
1917	9	1	0	1	1	0	0	15	8	6	5	1	16.3	4.41	1.286	2.76	3.43	132.6	58.6	-0.3
1918	24	21	16	5	0	16	5	151	46	70	44	1	184.0	2.25	1.201	2.15	3.02	113.6	118.3	3.1
1919	35	31	12	20	1	21	5	258	102	95	67	4	245.0	3.75	1.441	2.46	3.44	113.8	80.8	0.3
1920	37	33	13	16	0	21	3	302	120	79	86	9	274.0	3.94	1.391	2.82	3.61	99.3	92.2	1.9
1921	40	38	23	16	1	25	5	318	107	78	98	1	298.7	3.22	1.326	2.95	3.45	82.7	129.2	6.3
1922	45	28	13	13	8	20	0	270	106	76	81	16	260.0	3.67	1.331	2.80	4.03	99.6	110.4	4.4
1923	39	27	21	8	4	18	3	239	98	69	68	11	243.0	3.63	1.267	2.52	3.86	97.7	108.8	3.4
1924	36	21	9	6	3	8	3	187	72	76	53	6	178.7	3.63	1.472	2.67	4.26	101.6	115.6	2.8
1925	43	31	15	21	2	14	1	267	127	104	92	14	246.7	4.63	1.504	3.36	4.40	102.9	92.2	1.2
1926	39	23	9	8	5	6	1	186	89	80	69	6	161.0	4.98	1.652	3.86	4.11	105.3	78.5	-0.2
1927	30	26	8	14	0	11	0	211	91	102	72	13	189.7	4.32	1.650	3.42	4.85	112.4	100.0	1.7
1928	30	27	17	7	0	19	4	209	71	78	63	5	224.7	2.84	1.277	2.52	3.83	95.9	140.4	5.6
1929	24	24	9	9	0	8	1	156	67	49	36	5	153.7	3.92	1.334	2.11	3.98	94.5	107.4	2.0
1930	25	25	15	7	0	14	1	195	83	61	60	4	183.3	4.07	1.396	2.95	4.13	89.9	112.7	2.7
1931	25	24	9	10	1	8	1	185	71	47	58	10	148.0	4.32	1.568	3.53	4.38	102.0	99.5	1.8
1932	30	28	10	15	0	10	0	217	94	75	64	9	200.3	4.22	1.458	2.88	4.24	99.1	101.3	2.2
1933	27	25	10	12	0	11	2	181	66	65	60	13	176.7	3.36	1.392	3.06	4.48	106.8	124.7	3.3
1934	27	26	8	12	0	11	1	217	104	60	60	16	183.3	5.11	1.511	2.95	4.65	100.1	90.9	1.2
1935	21	19	8	7	0	7	0	162	63	51	38	8	140.0	4.05	1.521	2.44	4.41	96.7	112.5	2.2

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

713

1,489

1,243

151

245

RBI

139

346

.1971

OBP

.2892

SLG

.2550

OPS

.5442

Pitching

G (P)

647

176th-most career G (P)

487

57th-most career GS

229

67th-most career W

217

29th-most career L

250

79th-most career CG

SHO

63rd-most career SHO

3,883

47th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,223

378th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,396

18th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.838

WHIP

1.4113

K/9

2.83

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	TB
1921-04-13	BOS @ MIN Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	2	5
1921-05-13	BOS @ CWS Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	1	3	5
1921-06-01	BOS @ ATH Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	2	5
1928-05-02	NYY @ MIN Gameday	3	2	2	1	1	0	1	5
1928-05-22	MIN @ ATH Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	1	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1935-09-28	DET @ CWS Gameday	9.0	10	3	1	4	9	0
1930-09-18	MIN @ CLE Gameday	8.2	8	3	2	4	9	0
1925-04-21	BOS @ NYY Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	1	8	1
1927-05-12	NYY @ BAL Gameday	9.0	9	4	4	2	8	0
1934-05-22	BOS @ CWS Gameday	9.0	10	5	5	3	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.