Jay Baller
Philadelphia Phillies 1982; Chicago Cubs 1985–1987; Kansas City Royals 1990; Philadelphia Phillies 1992
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | — | 391.5 | — | .753 | 0.1 |
| 1985 | 20 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -137.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.7 |
| 1986 | 36 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -134.5 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
| 1987 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 475.5 | 423.3 | .913 | -0.5 |
| 1990 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
| 1992 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 8.0 | 3.38 | 1.125 | 7.88 | 3.75 | 103.4 | 107.4 | 0.1 |
| 1985 | 20 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 20 | 17 | 31 | 8 | 52.0 | 3.46 | 1.327 | 5.37 | 4.46 | 113.2 | 113.9 | 0.7 |
| 1986 | 36 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 32 | 28 | 42 | 7 | 53.7 | 5.37 | 1.602 | 7.04 | 4.55 | 114.2 | 74.3 | -0.4 |
| 1987 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 22 | 20 | 27 | 4 | 29.3 | 6.75 | 1.977 | 8.28 | 4.84 | 113.9 | 63.0 | -0.5 |
| 1990 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2.3 | 15.43 | 2.571 | 3.86 | 11.38 | 295.0 | 25.0 | -0.3 |
| 1992 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 11.0 | 8.18 | 1.818 | 7.36 | 9.78 | 276.6 | 43.2 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987-08-11 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1982-09-19 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982-09-22 | PHI @ WSH Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982-09-27 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982-09-30 | WSH @ PHI Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985-08-18 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 5.2 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
| 1986-06-09 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 3.2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1985-09-09 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 3.1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1982-09-30 | WSH @ PHI Gameday | 4.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 1986-06-13 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 3.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 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.