MLB / Players

Sheldon Jones

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornFebruary 2, 1922 · Tecumseh, NE, USA

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1946

Final gameJune 28, 1953

Seasons8 (1946–1953)

New York Giants 1946–1951; Boston Braves 1952; Chicago Cubs 1953

Percentile snapshot

1950 season — qualified pitchers

46.7

43.3

13.3

38.3

SHO

188

78.3

102

36.7

199.0

33.3

ERA

4.61

18.3

WHIP

1.397

58.3

K/9

4.39

68.3

FIP

4.64

13.3

FIP-

112.8

6.7

ERA+

89.2

sWAR

0.6

of 61 qualified 1950 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

8.7

85.3

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1946	6	8	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.250	.500	25.6	41.0	.236	0.4
1947	15	17	16	0	2	0	0	1	0	3	.125	.125	.125	.250	-54.8	-33.9	.115	0.6
1948	55	74	64	5	13	3	1	6	1	19	.203	.215	.281	.497	20.4	32.8	.225	3.6
1949	42	72	66	2	8	0	1	1	0	15	.121	.121	.152	.273	-46.2	-27.1	.123	3.3
1950	40	72	57	3	6	0	0	3	5	22	.105	.177	.105	.283	-30.9	-23.4	.148	0.6
1951	41	32	31	1	3	1	1	1	1	6	.097	.125	.194	.319	-33.1	-15.4	.144	0.6
1952	39	9	8	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	.125	.125	.125	.250	-48.2	-28.8	.115	-0.3
1953	22	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.8	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1946	6	4	1	2	0	1	0	21	10	17	24	4	28.0	3.21	1.357	7.71	4.39	126.9	107.7	0.4
1947	15	6	2	2	0	0	0	51	24	29	24	2	55.7	3.88	1.437	3.88	3.90	94.3	106.5	0.6
1948	55	21	16	8	5	8	1	204	75	90	82	16	201.3	3.35	1.460	3.67	4.22	105.5	119.1	3.6
1949	42	27	15	12	0	11	1	198	77	88	79	19	207.3	3.34	1.379	3.43	4.38	108.9	120.3	3.3
1950	40	28	13	16	2	11	2	188	102	90	97	26	199.0	4.61	1.397	4.39	4.64	112.8	89.2	0.6
1951	41	12	6	11	4	2	0	119	57	52	58	12	120.3	4.26	1.421	4.34	4.11	104.3	92.4	0.6
1952	39	1	1	4	1	0	0	81	37	31	40	8	70.0	4.76	1.600	5.14	4.13	116.1	74.8	-0.3
1953	22	2	0	2	0	0	0	47	23	16	9	3	38.3	5.40	1.643	2.11	4.81	109.2	81.5	-0.1

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

260

291

257

RBI

.1362

OBP

.1591

SLG

.1751

OPS

.3342

Pitching

G (P)

260

101

SHO

920

SO (P)

413

BB allowed

413

ERA

3.962

WHIP

1.4370

K/9

4.04

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	RBI	TB
1948-09-25	SF @ ATL Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	2	3
1948-07-30	CHC @ SF Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	3
1948-07-22	SF @ STL Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	0	3
1949-06-18	SF @ PIT Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	0	3
1951-07-07	ATL @ SF Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1946-09-29	PHI @ SF Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	5	8	0
1950-09-12	PIT @ SF Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	5	8	0
1949-08-24	CHC @ SF Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	0	7	2
1949-05-29	SF @ PHI Gameday	11.0	10	2	2	2	6	0
1948-04-25	SF @ ATL Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	4	6	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.