Spider Jorgensen
Brooklyn Dodgers 1947–1950; New York Giants 1950–1951
Percentile snapshot
1947 season — qualified batters
of 104 qualified 1947 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 129 | 506 | 441 | 57 | 121 | 29 | 8 | 5 | 67 | 58 | 45 | 4 | 0 | .274 | .360 | .410 | .770 | 103.1 | 101.9 | .357 | 2.1 |
| 1948 | 31 | 108 | 90 | 15 | 27 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 0 | .300 | .411 | .444 | .856 | 134.8 | 129.4 | .398 | 0.9 |
| 1949 | 53 | 160 | 134 | 15 | 36 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 23 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .269 | .376 | .343 | .719 | 97.6 | 91.9 | .344 | 0.5 |
| 1950 | 26 | 45 | 39 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .128 | .244 | .128 | .373 | 3.5 | 1.0 | .200 | -0.4 |
| 1951 | 28 | 56 | 51 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .235 | .291 | .353 | .644 | 68.7 | 72.8 | .295 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-04-17 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
| 1947-06-25 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 1947-07-04 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1947-07-27 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1948-05-18 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-04-15 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-17 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-18 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-19 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-22 | PHI @ LAD 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.