Sam Jethroe
Indianapolis ABCs 1938; Cincinnati-Cleveland Buckeyes 1942; Cleveland Buckeyes 1943–1948; Boston Braves 1950–1952; Pittsburgh Pirates 1954
Percentile snapshot
1952 season — qualified batters
of 76 qualified 1952 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 1.000 | 162.2 | 183.8 | .447 | 0.0 |
| 1942 | 42 | 172 | 164 | 28 | 55 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 27 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 0 | .335 | .363 | .506 | .869 | 146.8 | 156.9 | .400 | 1.5 |
| 1943 | 38 | 158 | 152 | 29 | 46 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .303 | .325 | .474 | .799 | 134.5 | 144.0 | .373 | 1.3 |
| 1944 | 24 | 105 | 95 | 19 | 31 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .326 | .385 | .421 | .806 | 146.5 | 149.7 | .389 | 1.0 |
| 1945 | 21 | 91 | 81 | 14 | 27 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 0 | .333 | .407 | .556 | .962 | 166.2 | 179.9 | .443 | 1.1 |
| 1946 | 19 | 86 | 78 | 20 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .269 | .329 | .385 | .714 | 106.9 | 110.5 | .346 | 0.4 |
| 1947 | 21 | 96 | 84 | 26 | 28 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | .333 | .404 | .583 | .988 | 147.2 | 164.3 | .450 | 0.9 |
| 1948 | 10 | 46 | 39 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .282 | .391 | .564 | .955 | 142.2 | 153.7 | .432 | 0.4 |
| 1950 | 141 | 642 | 582 | 100 | 159 | 28 | 8 | 18 | 58 | 52 | 93 | 35 | 0 | .273 | .338 | .442 | .780 | 107.5 | 109.3 | .349 | 2.9 |
| 1951 | 148 | 644 | 572 | 101 | 160 | 29 | 10 | 18 | 65 | 57 | 88 | 35 | 5 | .280 | .356 | .460 | .816 | 124.3 | 125.0 | .368 | 4.2 |
| 1952 | 151 | 688 | 608 | 79 | 141 | 23 | 7 | 13 | 58 | 68 | 112 | 28 | 9 | .232 | .318 | .357 | .675 | 91.5 | 91.3 | .316 | 1.9 |
| 1954 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -137.7 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-08-13 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| 1943-09-12 | IC @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 1946-07-23 | NE @ CLB Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1951-04-19 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 1942-07-30 | NE @ CLB Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-05-15 | HSL @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-15 | HSL @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-16 | MEM @ HSL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-22 | HSL @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-22 | HSL @ KCM 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.
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.