Sonny Jackson
Houston Colt .45's 1963–1964; Houston Astros 1965–1967; Atlanta Braves 1968–1974
Percentile snapshot
1971 season — qualified batters
of 113 qualified 1971 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.2 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1964 | 9 | 25 | 23 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .348 | .400 | .391 | .791 | 138.6 | 131.7 | .368 | 0.2 |
| 1965 | 10 | 24 | 23 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .130 | .167 | .130 | .297 | -19.2 | -12.8 | .145 | -0.2 |
| 1966 | 150 | 670 | 596 | 80 | 174 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 25 | 42 | 53 | 49 | 14 | .292 | .341 | .334 | .674 | 97.5 | 93.5 | .313 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 129 | 566 | 520 | 67 | 123 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 25 | 36 | 45 | 22 | 9 | .237 | .285 | .283 | .568 | 66.0 | 65.1 | .270 | 0.3 |
| 1968 | 105 | 392 | 358 | 37 | 81 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 25 | 35 | 16 | 6 | .226 | .282 | .268 | .550 | 61.0 | 66.0 | .260 | 0.2 |
| 1969 | 98 | 363 | 318 | 41 | 76 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 27 | 35 | 33 | 12 | 7 | .239 | .317 | .289 | .606 | 73.4 | 70.9 | .292 | 0.6 |
| 1970 | 103 | 380 | 328 | 60 | 85 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 45 | 27 | 11 | 4 | .259 | .347 | .320 | .668 | 81.8 | 76.5 | .319 | 0.8 |
| 1971 | 149 | 593 | 547 | 58 | 141 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 25 | 35 | 45 | 7 | 6 | .258 | .302 | .324 | .626 | 71.5 | 72.8 | .294 | 0.2 |
| 1972 | 60 | 133 | 126 | 20 | 30 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 0 | .238 | .278 | .333 | .612 | 63.2 | 66.5 | .286 | 0.0 |
| 1973 | 117 | 234 | 206 | 29 | 43 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 22 | 13 | 6 | 3 | .209 | .283 | .252 | .536 | 45.3 | 45.2 | .262 | -0.9 |
| 1974 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .429 | .429 | .429 | .857 | 144.1 | 136.7 | .405 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966-08-19 | CIN @ HOU Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1966-06-26 | STL @ HOU Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 1966-09-16 | PHI @ HOU Gameday | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1967-08-24 | ATL @ HOU Gameday | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1971-05-22 | ATL @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967-05-30 | HOU @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1967-07-22 | HOU @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1967-07-23 | HOU @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1967-09-29 | HOU @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1967-09-30 | HOU @ PIT 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.