Spook Jacobs
Philadelphia Athletics 1954; Kansas City Athletics 1955–1956; Pittsburgh Pirates 1956
Percentile snapshot
1954 season — qualified batters
of 82 qualified 1954 batters (min 483 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 132 | 575 | 508 | 63 | 131 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 60 | 22 | 17 | 3 | .258 | .336 | .283 | .619 | 69.5 | 68.4 | .303 | 0.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | 28 | 23 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .261 | .370 | .261 | .631 | 79.7 | 69.8 | .321 | 0.0 |
| 1956 | 43 | 156 | 134 | 17 | 27 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | .201 | .296 | .239 | .535 | 44.2 | 42.8 | .263 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-06-01 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1954-04-13 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1954-06-15 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1954-07-24 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1954-07-05 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-08-12 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-08-31 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-09-25 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-08-23 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956-04-18 | PIT @ SF 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.