Jake Early

Position: Catcher

Bats: Left • Throws: Right

5-11, 168lb (180cm, 76kg)

Born: May 19, 1915 in Kings Mountain, NC us

Died: May 31, 1985 in Melbourne, FL

Buried: Brevard Memorial Park, Cocoa, FL

Debut: May 4, 1939 (Age 23-350d, 8,660th in major league history)
vs. CHW 1 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: September 30, 1949 (Age 34-134d)
vs. BOS 0 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1940 season

Full Name: Jacob Willard Early

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1x All-Star

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

8.2

2208

532

.241

216

RBI

264

OBP

.330

SLG

.350

OPS

.679

OPS+

Fielding stats are given overall and by position. In some cases, they will be identical.

1948 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1948 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	1	Apr 19	WSH		NYY	L,4-12	CG	45	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
2	3 (1)	Apr 21	WSH		NYY	W,6-3	CG	37	9.0	0	1	0	1	0
3	4	Apr 23	WSH	@	PHA	W,5-3	CG	38	10.0	4	0	0	4	0
4	6 (1)	Apr 25 (1)	WSH	@	PHA	L,0-4	CG	33	8.0	2	2	0	4	0
5	9 (2)	Apr 29	WSH	@	NYY	L,4-5	GS	30	7.0	1	2	0	3	0
6	10	Apr 30	WSH		PHA	L,1-3	CG	39	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
7	11	May 1	WSH		PHA	L,1-5	CG	36	9.0	6	1	0	7	1
8	12	May 2	WSH		PHA	L,3-4	CG	39	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
9	14 (1)	May 5	WSH		CHW	W,6-0	CG	0	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
10	16 (1)	May 7	WSH		CLE	L,0-8	CG	44	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
11	18 (1)	May 9	WSH		SLB	W,3-1	CG	38	9.0	7	1	0	8	0
12	20 (1)	May 11	WSH		DET	L,1-4	CG	35	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
13	21	May 12	WSH		DET	L,9-14	GF	16	2.0	1	1	0	2	0
14	22	May 15	WSH	@	BOS	L,0-5	CG	0	8.0	3	0	0	3	0
15	23	May 16	WSH	@	BOS	L,5-14	GS	23	4.0	1	0	0	1	0
16	24	May 18	WSH	@	CHW	W,5-4	GF	11	3.0	1	1	0	2	0
17	25	May 19	WSH	@	CHW	W,4-1	CG	34	9.0	3	2	0	5	1
18	26	May 20	WSH	@	SLB	L,7-17	GS	35	6.0	2	1	0	3	0
19	27	May 21	WSH	@	SLB	L,3-4	GF	0	1.0	1	0	0	1	0
20	28	May 22	WSH	@	SLB	L,2-4	GS	32	7.0	2	1	0	3	0
21	29	May 23	WSH	@	DET	W,1-0	GS	29	8.0	4	1	0	5	0
22	31 (1)	May 25	WSH	@	CLE	L,0-4	CG	36	8.0	1	1	1	3	0
23	33 (1)	May 27	WSH		PHA	L,3-7	CG	47	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
24	35 (1)	May 29 (1)	WSH		BOS	W,5-4	CG	39	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
25	36	May 29 (2)	WSH		BOS	W,7-6	GF	31	5.0	1	0	0	1	0
26	39 (2)	May 31 (2)	WSH	@	NYY	L,4-5	GS	34	7.0	4	1	0	5	0
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
27	40	Jun 1	WSH	@	NYY	W,4-1	CG	32	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
28	41	Jun 2	WSH		CLE	W,2-1	GS	28	8.0	3	2	0	5	0
29	42	Jun 4	WSH		CLE	L,0-5	CG	62	15.0	11	2	0	13	0
30	44 (1)	Jun 6 (1)	WSH		CHW	L,4-10	CG	46	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
31	45	Jun 6 (2)	WSH		CHW	L,4-11	GF	9	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
32	46	Jun 7	WSH		CHW	W,7-1	CG	31	7.0	3	0	0	3	0
33	47	Jun 8	WSH		SLB	W,6-5	GS	13	3.0	4	1	0	5	0
34	52 (4)	Jun 13 (1)	WSH		DET	L,3-9	CG	44	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
35	54 (1)	Jun 16	WSH	@	SLB	L,5-6	GS	28	7.0	1	0	0	1	0
36	55	Jun 18	WSH	@	CHW	L,2-5	CG	34	8.0	5	0	0	5	0
37	56	Jun 19	WSH	@	CHW	L,5-9	GS	36	7.0	3	1	0	4	0
38	58 (1)	Jun 20 (2)	WSH	@	CHW	W,4-1	CG	35	9.0	3	2	0	5	0
39	59	Jun 22	WSH	@	DET	W,5-4	CG	41	9.0	5	0	0	5	0
40	60	Jun 23	WSH	@	DET	W,2-1	CG	43	9.0	2	2	0	4	1
41	61	Jun 25	WSH	@	CLE	W,3-2	GS	14	4.0	1	1	0	2	0
42	65 (3)	Jun 29	WSH	@	PHA	W,5-3	CG	41	9.0	4	0	1	5	0
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
43	66	Jul 1	WSH	@	PHA	L,2-3	CG	42	8.2	6	0	0	6	0
44	68 (1)	Jul 3	WSH	@	NYY	L,3-5	CG	37	8.0	3	0	0	3	0
45	69	Jul 4	WSH	@	NYY	L,5-6	GF	16	3.0	0	0	0	0	0
46	70	Jul 5 (1)	WSH		PHA	W,3-1	CG	31	9.0	3	2	0	5	0
47	73 (2)	Jul 7	WSH	@	BOS	W,7-6	CG	40	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
48	76 (2)	Jul 10	WSH		NYY	L,2-5	CG	42	10.0	4	2	0	6	0
49	77	Jul 11	WSH		NYY	W,9-4	GF	0	1.0	1	0	0	1	0
50	79 (1)	Jul 16	WSH		CHW	L,2-3	CG	40	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
51	80	Jul 17	WSH		CHW	L,7-9	GS	7	1.0	1	0	0	1	0
52	86 (5)	Jul 22	WSH		DET	W,9-8	GF	15	4.0	1	0	0	1	0
53	87	Jul 23	WSH		DET	L,5-11	GF	19	4.0	2	0	0	2	0
54	89 (1)	Jul 25 (1)	WSH		SLB	W,5-1	CG	37	9.0	0	0	0	0	0
55	90	Jul 25 (2)	WSH		SLB	L,4-6	CG	48	11.0	5	1	0	6	0
56	91	Jul 27	WSH	@	CHW	L,1-2	GF	7	1.2	0	0	0	0	0
57	92	Jul 28	WSH	@	CHW	L,1-2	CG	37	8.0	3	2	0	5	0
58	93	Jul 30	WSH	@	SLB	W,3-2	GS	31	8.0	5	0	0	5	0
59	94	Jul 31	WSH	@	SLB	L,8-10	CG	42	8.0	3	1	0	4	1
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
60	95	Aug 1 (1)	WSH	@	SLB	L,5-8	CG	0	8.0	5	1	0	6	0
61	96	Aug 1 (2)	WSH	@	SLB	W,4-3	GF	7	2.0	1	0	0	1	0
62	98 (1)	Aug 3	WSH	@	CLE	L,3-5	CG	41	8.0	1	0	0	1	0
63	100 (1)	Aug 6	WSH	@	DET	L,0-1	GF	14	2.2	0	0	0	0	0
64	101	Aug 7	WSH	@	DET	W,3-2	GS	19	4.2	0	1	0	1	0
65	104 (2)	Aug 10 (1)	WSH	@	PHA	W,8-2	CG	38	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
66	106 (1)	Aug 11	WSH	@	PHA	L,3-8	CG	36	8.0	5	1	0	6	1
67	108 (1)	Aug 14	WSH		BOS	L,3-4	CG	40	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
68	109	Aug 15 (1)	WSH		BOS	W,5-4	CG	43	9.0	5	1	0	6	0
69	112 (2)	Aug 18	WSH		NYY	L,1-4	CG	22	5.0	2	0	0	2	0
70	113	Aug 19	WSH		NYY	L,1-8	CG	43	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
71	122 (8)	Aug 28	WSH		DET	L,5-7	GF	19	3.0	2	0	0	2	0
72	123	Aug 29 (1)	WSH		CLE	L,0-6	CG	41	9.0	6	0	0	6	0
73	124	Aug 29 (2)	WSH		CLE	W,5-2	GF	11	3.0	0	0	0	0	0
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
74	127 (2)	Sep 1	WSH		CHW	W,5-4	CG	40	9.0	2	2	0	4	0
75	129 (1)	Sep 3 (2)	WSH	@	NYY	L,2-5	GS	4	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
76	133 (3)	Sep 6 (2)	WSH		BOS	L,1-2	CG	35	9.0	4	0	1	5	0
77	135 (1)	Sep 8 (2)	WSH		PHA	L,2-5	CG	43	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
78	136	Sep 10 (1)	WSH		PHA	L,6-9	CG	46	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
79	137	Sep 10 (2)	WSH		PHA	L,0-3	GF	7	1.0	1	0	0	1	0
80	138	Sep 11	WSH		NYY	L,3-6	CG	46	9.0	4	1	0	5	0
81	139	Sep 12	WSH		NYY	L,5-10	GS	37	7.0	3	0	0	3	0
82	141 (1)	Sep 14 (2)	WSH	@	DET	L,1-12	CG	0	8.0	8	1	0	9	1
83	142	Sep 15	WSH	@	DET	L,2-4	CG	35	8.0	0	0	0	0	0
84	144 (1)	Sep 17	WSH	@	CLE	L,1-4	CG	34	8.0	1	0	0	1	0
85	146 (1)	Sep 19 (1)	WSH	@	CHW	W,10-7	CG	42	9.0	2	2	0	4	1
86	148 (1)	Sep 22	WSH	@	SLB	W,5-4	GS	0	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
87	149	Sep 23	WSH	@	SLB	W,9-8	CG	0	9.0	8	0	0	8	0
88	150	Sep 28	WSH	@	BOS	W,4-2	GS	30	7.0	3	0	0	3	0
89	151	Sep 29	WSH	@	BOS	L,1-5	CG	39	8.0	2	0	0	2	0
90	152	Sep 30	WSH	@	BOS	L,3-7	GS	40	7.0	3	0	0	3	0
91	153	Oct 2	WSH	@	PHA	W,7-1	GF	14	3.0	1	0	0	1	0
92	154	Oct 3	WSH	@	PHA	W,7-2	CG	31	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
							92gm		644.2	268	51	3	322	7