Sam Jones

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 192 lb

BornDecember 14, 1925 · Stewartsville, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 22, 1951

Final gameOctober 3, 1964

Seasons14 (1947–1964)

Cleveland Buckeyes 1947–1948; Cleveland Indians 1951–1952; Chicago Cubs 1955–1956; St. Louis Cardinals 1957–1958; San Francisco Giants 1959–1961; Detroit Tigers 1962; St. Louis Cardinals 1963; Baltimore Orioles 1964

Percentile snapshot

1960 season — qualified pitchers

74.1

81.5

85.2

18.5

74.1

SHO

64.8

200

48.1

42.6

18.5

190

94.4

46.3

234.0

68.5

ERA

3.19

74.1

WHIP

1.244

66.7

K/9

7.31

92.6

FIP

3.24

83.3

FIP-

91.5

68.5

ERA+

111.1

57.4

sWAR

3.4

68.5

of 55 qualified 1960 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

106.7

63.6

sWAR

20.1

93.6

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1947	1	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-84.4	-100.0	.000	0.2
1948	4	8	8	2	3	0	0	3	0	0	.375	.375	.375	.750	99.3	101.2	.351	-0.3
1951	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.1	-100.0	.000	0.2
1952	14	10	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	.100	.100	.100	.200	-64.3	-42.2	.093	-1.4
1955	36	85	77	2	14	1	0	5	3	27	.182	.213	.195	.407	1.9	8.7	.191	2.2
1956	33	71	57	3	10	0	0	1	4	19	.175	.230	.175	.405	7.5	11.5	.197	1.5
1957	28	70	63	2	10	1	0	3	1	25	.159	.182	.175	.356	-16.2	-4.0	.165	2.4
1958	35	95	90	2	9	0	0	4	2	26	.100	.118	.100	.218	-63.7	-42.2	.104	5.3
1959	50	100	85	3	11	1	0	8	3	30	.129	.157	.141	.298	-26.1	-17.4	.142	5.4
1960	39	89	80	3	16	2	0	5	1	20	.200	.207	.225	.432	14.6	22.3	.197	3.4
1961	37	42	36	0	5	2	0	0	1	7	.139	.162	.194	.357	-10.2	-3.7	.163	0.3
1962	30	21	21	1	2	0	1	1	0	9	.095	.095	.238	.333	-33.8	-14.4	.141	1.1
1963	11	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	131.8	52.9	.369	-0.6
1964	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—	396.6	—	.736	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	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	11	3	2	5	0	8.0	3.38	1.625	5.63	3.55	72.1	146.0	0.2
1948	4	2	1	2	0	0	0	23	16	16	12	1	18.0	8.00	2.167	6.00	6.12	126.4	60.5	-0.3
1951	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	4	2	5	4	0	8.7	2.08	1.038	4.15	3.39	87.9	185.4	0.2
1952	14	4	2	3	1	0	0	38	29	37	28	6	36.0	7.25	2.083	7.00	6.39	187.2	47.1	-1.4
1955	36	34	14	20	0	12	4	175	110	185	198	22	241.7	4.10	1.490	7.37	4.32	105.5	100.0	2.2
1956	33	28	9	14	0	8	2	155	82	115	176	21	188.7	3.91	1.431	8.40	3.77	100.1	96.3	1.5
1957	28	27	12	9	0	10	2	164	73	71	154	17	182.7	3.60	1.286	7.59	3.30	83.7	109.6	2.4
1958	35	35	14	13	0	14	2	204	80	107	225	23	250.0	2.88	1.244	8.10	3.26	79.8	141.7	5.3
1959	50	35	21	15	4	16	4	232	85	109	209	18	270.7	2.83	1.260	6.95	3.24	86.3	132.7	5.4
1960	39	35	18	14	0	13	3	200	83	91	190	18	234.0	3.19	1.244	7.31	3.24	91.5	111.1	3.4
1961	37	17	8	8	1	2	0	134	64	57	105	12	128.3	4.49	1.488	7.36	3.77	97.2	86.3	0.3
1962	30	6	2	4	1	1	0	77	33	35	73	13	81.3	3.65	1.377	8.08	4.16	102.6	111.1	1.1
1963	11	0	2	0	2	0	0	15	11	5	8	0	11.0	9.00	1.818	6.55	2.41	68.2	39.2	-0.6
1964	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	5	6	1	10.3	2.61	.968	5.23	4.01	112.4	136.5	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

327

599

533

RBI

167

.1520

OBP

.1784

SLG

.1707

OPS

.3491

Pitching

G (P)

327

225

103

104

SHO

317th-most career SHO

1,669

SO (P)

1,393

285th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

840

218th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.634

WHIP

1.3640

K/9

7.51

139th-highest career K/9

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	HR	RBI	TB
1961-04-16	PHI @ SF Gameday	3	0	2	2	0	0	4
1962-04-26	ATH @ DET Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4
1948-06-27	CLB @ KCM Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	3	3
1955-09-09	LAD @ CHC Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	1	2
1956-04-20	CIN @ CHC Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1958-08-22	PHI @ STL Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	3	14	1
1960-08-30	PHI @ SF Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	0	14	0
1958-08-30	CHC @ STL Gameday	10.0	9	3	3	1	13	1
1956-08-16	CIN @ CHC Gameday	9.0	7	2	1	2	13	1
1955-06-28	CHC @ ATL Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	3	12	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

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.