Willie Jones

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 188 lb

BornAugust 16, 1925 · Dillon, SC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1947

Final gameMay 7, 1961

Seasons15 (1947–1961)

Philadelphia Phillies 1947–1958; Cincinnati Redlegs 1959; Cleveland Indians 1959; Philadelphia Phillies 1959; Cincinnati Reds 1960–1961

Percentile snapshot

1957 season — qualified batters

133

18.9

512

14.9

440

8.1

17.6

1.4

21.6

10.8

28.4

RBI

21.6

62.2

78.4

6.8

94.6

.218

1.4

OBP

.310

13.5

SLG

.332

6.8

OPS

.641

9.5

wRC+

76.1

13.5

OPS+

74.7

9.5

wOBA

.295

9.5

sWAR

0.4

13.5

of 75 qualified 1957 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

102.8

47.2

OPS+

101.9

45.3

sWAR

27.2

95.9

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
1947	18	69	62	5	14	0	1	0	10	7	0	2	0	.226	.304	.258	.562	53.3	52.5	.274	-0.2
1948	17	65	60	9	20	2	0	2	9	3	5	0	0	.333	.365	.467	.832	124.1	125.5	.377	0.4
1949	149	604	532	71	130	35	1	19	77	65	66	3	0	.244	.328	.421	.749	98.7	99.8	.341	2.1
1950	157	678	610	100	163	28	6	25	88	61	40	5	0	.267	.337	.456	.793	107.3	109.1	.353	3.1
1951	148	647	564	79	161	28	5	22	81	60	47	6	2	.285	.358	.470	.828	124.1	124.3	.372	4.2
1952	147	611	541	60	135	12	3	18	72	53	36	5	3	.250	.323	.383	.706	96.6	97.3	.326	2.0
1953	149	571	481	61	108	16	2	19	70	85	45	1	1	.225	.342	.385	.727	93.9	91.2	.333	1.7
1954	142	610	535	64	145	28	3	12	56	61	54	4	1	.271	.342	.402	.744	95.3	95.4	.336	1.9
1955	146	611	516	65	133	20	3	16	81	77	51	6	2	.258	.352	.401	.753	103.9	101.8	.340	2.6
1956	149	621	520	88	144	20	4	17	78	92	49	5	4	.277	.383	.429	.812	126.0	120.5	.366	4.4
1957	133	512	440	58	96	19	2	9	47	61	41	1	0	.218	.310	.332	.641	76.1	74.7	.295	0.4
1958	118	456	398	52	108	15	1	14	60	49	45	1	2	.271	.351	.420	.771	105.9	104.3	.345	2.0
1959	130	466	411	57	105	22	2	14	56	48	43	0	2	.255	.332	.421	.753	98.4	97.5	.337	1.7
1960	79	184	149	16	40	7	0	3	27	31	16	1	0	.268	.388	.376	.764	114.5	109.3	.352	1.0
1961	9	9	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	.000	.222	.000	.222	-13.9	-34.2	.164	-0.1

Career totals

1,691

6,714

5,826

786

1,502

252

190

427th-most career HR

RBI

812

755

317th-most career BB

541

.2578

OBP

.3432

SLG

.4102

OPS

.7534

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	BB	TB
1958-08-20	PHI @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	1	2	8	0	11
1950-07-18	PHI @ CHC Gameday	5	1	4	2	1	3	0	9
1954-06-09	PHI @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	5	0	9
1956-05-24	LAD @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	0	9
1949-06-21	PHI @ PIT Gameday	3	3	3	0	2	3	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1947-04-15	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-17	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-18	PHI @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-19	PHI @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-19	PHI @ ATL 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.

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.