Jimmy Direaux - Seamheads Negro Leagues Database

Jimmy Direaux

James Direaux
(Derrick; Duck)

Born: 1916 in Pasadena, CA

Bats:

Throws: R

Ht: 5'9"

Wt: 168

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Notes:

• High School: Jacob Riis HS (Los Angeles, CA)

Teammates

Glossary

#	Players	Pos	Yrs	First	Last	Team		WAR	Off	Fld	Pit	Adj
1	Jesús Valenzuela	SP	4	1940	1944	TPC		20.7	-0.9	0.1	21.5	0.0
2	Willie Jefferson	SP	1	1940	1940	MTY		9.2	0.0	0.0	9.2	0.0
3	Francisco Castañeda	SP	2	1941	1942	TPC		8.6	0.0	0.0	8.6	0.0
4	Ray Dandridge	SS	2	1943	1945	MXD/VEZ		8.3	5.7	1.6	0.0	1.0
5	Manuel Arroyo	2B	4	1940	1944	MTY/TPC		7.5	6.9	-0.4	0.0	1.0
6	Tomás de la Cruz	SP	1	1945	1945	MXD		7.3	-0.1	0.0	7.4	0.0
7	Angel Castro	1B	3	1941	1944	TPC		6.8	5.7	2.3	-0.3	-0.9
8	Ramón Bragaña	SP	1	1943	1943	VEZ		6.5	0.3	0.0	6.2	0.0
9	Nate Moreland	SP	2	1941	1944	TPC		6.3	-0.9	-0.3	7.6	0.0
10	Santos Amaro	RF	3	1941	1944	TPC		5.1	7.8	-1.8	0.0	-0.8
11	Bus Clarkson	SS	1	1941	1941	TPC		4.2	3.7	0.0	0.0	0.5
12	Sam Bankhead	SS	1	1940	1940	MTY		4.0	3.4	0.0	0.0	0.6
13	Bill Byrd	SP	2	1937	1938	BEG		3.5	0.7	0.3	2.6	0.0
14	Quincy Trouppe	C	1	1940	1940	MTY		3.4	3.3	0.0	0.0	0.1
15	Marcos Váldez	SP	1	1940	1940	MTY		3.3	0.0	0.0	3.3	0.0
16	Roberto Ortiz	CF	1	1945	1945	MXD		3.2	3.9	-0.7	0.0	0.0
17	Pedro Ramírez	SP	1	1943	1943	VEZ		3.2	-0.1	0.0	3.5	-0.2
18	Fermín Vázquez	CF	2	1943	1945	MXD/VEZ		2.5	2.4	0.4	0.0	-0.3
19	Bob Griffith	SP	2	1937	1938	BEG		2.5	0.1	0.0	2.4	0.0
20	Sammy Hughes	2B	2	1937	1938	BEG		2.3	2.4	-0.2	0.0	0.2
21	Wild Bill Wright	CF	2	1937	1938	BEG		2.3	3.0	-0.5	0.0	-0.2
22	Jim West	1B	2	1937	1938	BEG		2.3	2.4	0.2	0.0	-0.3
23	Avelino Cañizares	SS	1	1944	1944	TPC		2.2	1.3	0.5	0.0	0.5
24	Barney Brown	SP	1	1945	1945	MXD		2.1	1.3	0.1	0.7	0.0
25	Andy Porter	SP	3	1937	1943	BEG/VEZ		2.0	-0.6	0.0	2.6	0.0
26	Sergio Correa	C	2	1943	1945	MXD/VEZ		2.0	1.2	0.4	0.1	0.3
27	Theolic Smith	SP	1	1945	1945	MXD		1.8	1.3	0.1	0.5	-0.1
28	Carlos Galina	1B	1	1940	1940	MTY		1.8	2.2	0.0	0.0	-0.4
29	Felino Cárdenas	LF	2	1944	1945	MXD/TPC		1.5	-0.4	2.5	0.0	-0.5
30	Tom Glover	SP	2	1937	1938	BEG		1.2	-0.3	0.0	1.5	0.0
31	Joe González	CF	2	1940	1941	TPC		1.1	1.3	0.0	0.0	-0.1
32	Manuel Cortinas	LF	1	1940	1940	MTY		1.1	1.5	0.0	0.0	-0.4
33	Verdell Mathis	SP	1	1941	1941	TPC		1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0
34	Marvin Williams	2B	1	1945	1945	MXD		1.0	2.5	-1.7	0.0	0.2
35	Juan Guerrero	SP	2	1940	1942	MTY/TPC		1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0
36	Biz Mackey	C	2	1937	1938	BEG		1.0	0.3	0.6	0.0	0.1
37	Jorge Bravo	1B	1	1945	1945	MXD		1.0	-0.1	1.3	0.0	-0.2
38	Henry McHenry	SP	2	1940	1944	MTY/TPC		0.9	0.6	-0.1	0.6	0.0
39	Lonnie Summers	CF	3	1938	1941	BEG/TPC		0.9	0.5	0.4	0.1	-0.1
40	George Scales	3B	1	1938	1938	BEG		0.7	0.4	0.1	0.2	0.0
41	Porter Moss	RP	1	1940	1940	TPC		0.6	0.0	0.0	0.6	0.0
42	Woody Williams	RP	2	1937	1938	BEG		0.6	-0.1	0.0	0.8	0.0
43	Lloyd Davenport	CF	1	1940	1940	TPC		0.6	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
44	Raúl Navarro	C	1	1944	1944	TPC		0.6	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.2
45	Felton Snow	SS	2	1937	1938	BEG		0.6	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2
46	Antonio Ordeñana	SS	1	1945	1945	MXD		0.5	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.1
47	Rafael Caballero	CF	1	1940	1940	MTY		0.5	0.5	0.0	0.0	-0.1
48	José María Ferrer	3B	1	1942	1942	TPC		0.5	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
49	Harry Williams	2B	1	1941	1941	TPC		0.5	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.1
50	Chile Gómez	2B	1	1940	1940	MTY		0.4	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.3
51	Agustín Bejerano	LF	1	1943	1943	VEZ		0.4	0.8	0.0	0.0	-0.4
52	Pedro Pagés	1B	1	1941	1941	TPC		0.4	0.8	0.0	0.0	-0.4
53	Leroy Morney	3B	1	1937	1937	BEG		0.4	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0
54	Eduardo Reyes	RF	1	1945	1945	MXD		0.4	-0.1	0.7	0.0	-0.2
55	Tommie Dukes	C	2	1941	1942	TPC		0.4	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.5
56	Bert Hunter	RP	1	1943	1943	VEZ		0.3	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0
57	Ramón Mendoza	-	1	1944	1944	TPC		0.3	-0.4	0.5	0.0	0.2
58	Phelps	RP	1	1938	1938	BEG		0.3	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0
59	Luis Montes de Oca	3B	1	1940	1940	MTY		0.3	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
60	Bernardo López	C	1	1943	1943	VEZ		0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2
61	Apolinar Pulido	SS	1	1940	1940	TPC		0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.2
62	Salvador Vargas	3B	1	1945	1945	MXD		0.2	-0.8	0.9	0.0	0.1
63	Enrique Fernández	LF	1	1945	1945	MXD		0.2	0.0	0.3	0.0	-0.1
64	Granville Lyons	RF	1	1938	1938	BEG		0.2	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
65	Jimmy Ford	3B	2	1938	1941	BEG/TPC		0.2	0.3	-0.1	0.0	0.0
66	Guillermo Gómez	3B	1	1940	1940	MTY		0.2	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
67	Ernesto Maimón	RP	2	1941	1942	TPC		0.2	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0
68	Jesús Torrijos	-	1	1945	1945	MXD		0.2	-0.2	0.3	0.0	0.0
69	Hoss Walker	SS	2	1937	1938	BEG		0.1	-0.5	0.3	0.0	0.3
70	Gilberto Garza	RP	1	1940	1940	MTY		0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0
71	Jesse Houston	RP	1	1940	1940	TPC		0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0
72	Joe Naranjo	3B	1	1940	1940	MTY		0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
73	Epitacio Torres	RF	1	1940	1940	MTY		0.1	0.5	0.0	0.0	-0.4
74	Jonas Gaines	SP	2	1937	1938	BEG		0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0
75	Alfonso Nieto	C	1	1945	1945	MXD		0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
76	David Rodríguez	SP	1	1940	1940	MTY		0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0
77	Charlie Bates	C	1	1940	1940	TPC		0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
78	Arnold Waites	RP	1	1937	1937	BEG		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
79	Zollie Wright	RF	1	1937	1937	BEG		0.0	0.4	-0.2	0.0	-0.1
80	Albert Overton	RP	1	1940	1940	MTY		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
81	Amadeo Lozano	-	1	1940	1940	MTY		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
82	Francisco Mora	-	1	1943	1943	VEZ		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
83	Salvador Rodríguez	-	1	1940	1940	TPC		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
84	Nish Williams	C	1	1937	1937	BEG		0.0	-0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0
85	Manuel Juárez	SS	1	1942	1942	TPC		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
86	Markey	-	1	1937	1937	BEG		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
87	Carlos Lugo	LF	1	1940	1940	TPC		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
88	Guillermo Ornelas	2B	1	1940	1940	TPC		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
89	Buddy Burbage	RF	1	1938	1938	BEG		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
90	Antonio Jiménez	LF	1	1943	1943	VEZ		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
91	Dave Thomas	1B	1	1938	1938	BEG		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
92	Ángel Abreu	C	1	1943	1943	VEZ		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
93	Agapito Mayor	SP	1	1944	1944	TPC		0.0	0.1	0.0	-0.1	0.0
94	Henry Spearman	-	1	1945	1945	MXD		-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
95	Eligio Mendoza	2B	1	1943	1943	VEZ		-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
96	Miguel Arvizu	RF	1	1945	1945	MXD		-0.1	0.0	-0.1	0.0	0.0
97	José Ayala	-	1	1945	1945	MXD		-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
98	Felipe Sosa	-	1	1945	1945	MXD		-0.1	0.0	-0.1	0.0	0.0
99	Oscar Tavizón	-	1	1945	1945	MXD		-0.1	0.0	0.0	-0.1	0.0
100	Carlos Del Valle	-	1	1942	1942	TPC		-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
101	Manuel Islas	-	1	1945	1945	MXD		-0.1	0.0	-0.1	0.0	0.0
102	Sergio Cabal	RP	1	1944	1944	TPC		-0.1	0.0	0.0	-0.1	0.0
103	Gustavo Bello	RP	1	1944	1944	TPC		-0.1	-0.2	0.1	-0.1	0.0
104	Rafael Hernández	-	1	1941	1941	TPC		-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
105	Manuel Portilla	-	1	1944	1944	TPC		-0.1	0.0	-0.1	0.0	0.0
106	Fernando Arencibia	RF	1	1943	1943	VEZ		-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
107	Bill Hoskins	LF	1	1938	1938	BEG		-0.1	0.1	-0.2	0.0	0.0
108	Marcos Arias	CF	1	1942	1942	TPC		-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
109	Ernesto Arroyo	-	1	1942	1942	TPC		-0.1	0.0	0.0	-0.1	0.0
110	Fernando Barradas	RP	1	1943	1943	VEZ		-0.1	-0.4	0.0	0.5	-0.3
111	Jimmy Johnson	RF	1	1940	1940	TPC		-0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0	-0.1
112	Robert Carpenter	RP	1	1944	1944	TPC		-0.2	0.0	0.0	-0.1	0.0
113	Anastasio Santaella	2B	1	1943	1943	VEZ		-0.2	-0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
114	Junius Savage	-	1	1940	1940	MTY		-0.2	0.0	0.0	-0.2	0.0
115	Manuel Ríos	RP	1	1945	1945	MXD		-0.2	-0.1	0.1	-0.2	0.0
116	Fernando Navarro	CF	1	1943	1943	VEZ		-0.2	-0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
117	Henry Kimbro	CF	2	1937	1938	BEG		-0.2	0.8	-0.9	0.0	-0.2
118	Roberto Rivera	1B	1	1940	1940	TPC		-0.3	-0.2	0.0	0.0	-0.1
119	Jim Keesey	1B	1	1940	1940	TPC		-0.3	-0.2	0.0	0.0	-0.1
120	Pedro Ávila	3B	1	1943	1943	VEZ		-0.3	-0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
121	Boyd Biggers	SP	2	1940	1941	TPC		-0.3	0.0	0.0	-0.3	0.0
122	Napoleón Pérez	-	1	1943	1943	VEZ		-0.3	0.0	0.0	-0.3	0.0
123	Herón Anota	-	1	1945	1945	MXD		-0.3	0.0	0.0	-0.3	0.0
124	Rogelio Serrano	RF	1	1945	1945	MXD		-0.4	0.1	-0.1	-0.4	0.0
125	Jim Willis	-	1	1937	1937	BEG		-0.4	0.1	0.0	-0.4	0.0
126	Larry Brown	C	1	1941	1941	TPC		-0.4	-0.5	0.0	0.0	0.1
127	Dominic Castro	3B	1	1940	1940	TPC		-0.5	-0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
128	Calixto Ramos	RF	1	1942	1942	TPC		-0.5	-0.4	0.0	0.0	-0.1
129	Emilio Sardá	-	1	1945	1945	MXD		-0.5	0.0	0.0	-0.5	0.0
130	Manuel Chávez	3B	1	1943	1943	VEZ		-0.5	-0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
131	Alfonso Rodríguez	RP	1	1942	1942	TPC		-0.6	0.0	0.0	-0.6	0.0
132	Pinky Vargas	LF	3	1940	1942	TPC		-0.6	-0.2	0.0	0.0	-0.4
133	Bill Harvey	SP	2	1940	1941	MTY/TPC		-0.7	0.0	0.0	-0.7	0.0
134	Alfonso Ramírez	LF	1	1945	1945	MXD		-0.7	0.0	0.0	-0.7	0.0
135	Ricardo Carrillo	LF	2	1940	1942	TPC		-0.7	-0.5	0.0	0.0	-0.2
136	Lefty Wilson	-	1	1940	1940	MTY		-0.7	0.0	0.0	-0.7	0.0
137	Rosendo Navarro	RP	1	1943	1943	VEZ		-0.7	0.0	0.0	-0.7	0.0
138	Roy Campanella	C	2	1937	1938	BEG		-0.7	-0.5	-0.3	0.0	0.0
139	Marcelino Bauza	SS	2	1942	1943	TPC/VEZ		-0.8	-1.3	0.0	0.0	0.5
140	Francisco Torrijos	RF	3	1943	1945	MULT		-0.8	-0.6	0.0	0.0	-0.2
141	Roy Partlow	SP	1	1943	1943	VEZ		-0.9	0.0	0.0	-0.9	0.0
142	Jorge Tirado	C	1	1945	1945	MXD		-1.0	-0.5	-0.6	0.0	0.2
143	Gaudencio Guerra	C	1	1940	1940	MTY		-1.0	-1.2	0.0	0.0	0.2
144	Manuel Echeverría	SP	2	1940	1941	MTY/TPC		-1.0	0.0	0.0	-1.0	0.0
145	Eustaquio Martínez	2B	1	1943	1943	VEZ		-1.1	-1.2	0.0	0.0	0.2
146	Oliverio Ortiz	RP	1	1945	1945	MXD		-1.1	0.1	0.1	-1.2	0.0
147	José Vázquez	LF	1	1942	1942	TPC		-1.1	-0.8	0.0	0.0	-0.3
148	Alfonso de la Fuente	2B	2	1940	1941	TPC		-1.2	-1.5	0.0	0.0	0.3
149	José Lara	2B	1	1942	1942	TPC		-1.3	-1.5	0.0	0.0	0.3
150	Sabino Cervantes	-	1	1945	1945	MXD		-1.4	-0.1	0.0	-1.3	0.0
151	Alberto Cornejo	-	1	1944	1944	TPC		-1.8	-2.0	0.2	0.0	0.0
152	Roberto Cabal	RF	1	1943	1943	VEZ		-2.4	-0.3	0.0	-1.8	-0.3

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