Al Jackson
Pittsburgh Pirates 1959; Pittsburgh Pirates 1961; New York Mets 1962–1965; St. Louis Cardinals 1966–1967; New York Mets 1968; Cincinnati Reds 1969; New York Mets 1969
Percentile snapshot
1966 season — qualified pitchers
of 62 qualified 1966 pitchers (min 162 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | -1.8 | 8.5 | .182 | -0.4 |
| 1961 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .111 | .000 | .111 | -66.3 | -66.8 | .082 | 0.3 |
| 1962 | 44 | 81 | 73 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 0 | 0 | .068 | .093 | .096 | .189 | -66.5 | -49.9 | .091 | 1.1 |
| 1963 | 49 | 84 | 79 | 8 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 1 | .203 | .210 | .228 | .438 | 13.1 | 24.9 | .200 | 0.7 |
| 1964 | 50 | 76 | 72 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 26 | 0 | 0 | .153 | .176 | .264 | .440 | 13.3 | 21.8 | .198 | 0.5 |
| 1965 | 56 | 70 | 60 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .117 | .145 | .133 | .278 | -30.8 | -20.2 | .134 | -0.2 |
| 1966 | 51 | 84 | 74 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 30 | 2 | 0 | .176 | .215 | .257 | .472 | 24.0 | 30.1 | .217 | 5.7 |
| 1967 | 41 | 34 | 31 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .258 | .303 | .290 | .593 | 76.0 | 73.3 | .283 | 0.4 |
| 1968 | 27 | 30 | 28 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .241 | .286 | .527 | 47.4 | 58.4 | .241 | 0.2 |
| 1969 | 42 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | -2.4 | 10.5 | .187 | -1.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 18.0 | 6.50 | 2.111 | 6.50 | 3.23 | 83.6 | 59.5 | -0.4 |
| 1961 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 15 | 2 | 23.7 | 3.42 | 1.014 | 5.70 | 3.00 | 75.3 | 116.6 | 0.3 |
| 1962 | 36 | 33 | 8 | 20 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 244 | 113 | 78 | 118 | 16 | 231.3 | 4.40 | 1.392 | 4.59 | 3.68 | 89.5 | 93.4 | 1.1 |
| 1963 | 37 | 34 | 13 | 17 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 237 | 100 | 84 | 142 | 25 | 227.0 | 3.96 | 1.414 | 5.63 | 3.95 | 117.1 | 85.0 | 0.7 |
| 1964 | 40 | 31 | 11 | 16 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 229 | 101 | 60 | 112 | 18 | 213.3 | 4.26 | 1.355 | 4.73 | 3.70 | 103.9 | 83.6 | 0.5 |
| 1965 | 37 | 31 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 217 | 99 | 61 | 120 | 17 | 205.3 | 4.34 | 1.354 | 5.26 | 3.55 | 101.5 | 80.6 | -0.2 |
| 1966 | 36 | 30 | 13 | 15 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 222 | 65 | 45 | 90 | 18 | 232.7 | 2.51 | 1.148 | 3.48 | 3.52 | 96.4 | 145.4 | 5.7 |
| 1967 | 38 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 117 | 47 | 29 | 43 | 7 | 107.0 | 3.95 | 1.364 | 3.62 | 3.55 | 107.6 | 83.3 | 0.4 |
| 1968 | 25 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 38 | 17 | 59 | 5 | 92.7 | 3.69 | 1.133 | 5.73 | 2.59 | 86.9 | 80.7 | 0.2 |
| 1969 | 42 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 29 | 21 | 26 | 6 | 38.3 | 6.81 | 1.722 | 6.10 | 5.29 | 142.3 | 54.4 | -1.1 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964-07-26 | ATL @ NYM Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1966-05-28 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1964-07-09 | STL @ NYM Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1964-08-01 | HOU @ NYM Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1966-07-21 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965-05-04 | PHI @ NYM Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 0 |
| 1962-06-22 | HOU @ NYM Gameday | 9.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
| 1968-07-14 | PHI @ NYM Gameday | 6.2 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
| 1962-05-11 | ATL @ NYM Gameday | 9.0 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 0 |
| 1963-09-27 | NYM @ HOU Gameday | 9.0 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 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.