Jay Bell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 180 lb

BornDecember 11, 1965 · Eglin AFB, FL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 29, 1986

Final gameSeptember 28, 2003

Seasons18 (1986–2003)

Cleveland Indians 1986–1988; Pittsburgh Pirates 1989–1996; Kansas City Royals 1997; Arizona Diamondbacks 1998–2002; New York Mets 2003

Percentile snapshot

2001 season — qualified batters

129

7.7

509

4.5

428

10.9

106

0.6

14.1

28.8

RBI

8.3

65.4

64.1

82.7

.248

8.3

OBP

.349

52.6

SLG

.400

26.3

OPS

.749

33.3

wRC+

92.5

29.5

OPS+

89.6

wOBA

.335

37.8

sWAR

1.3

21.8

of 157 qualified 2001 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

103.7

49.2

OPS+

101.3

44.3

sWAR

40.0

97.9

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
1986	5	16	14	3	5	2	0	1	4	2	3	0	0	.357	.438	.714	1.152	210.1	208.3	.493	0.3
1987	38	137	125	14	27	9	1	2	13	8	31	2	0	.216	.269	.352	.621	61.4	62.3	.276	0.0
1988	73	236	211	23	46	5	1	2	21	21	53	4	2	.218	.289	.280	.569	60.1	58.6	.270	0.0
1989	78	303	271	33	70	13	3	2	27	19	47	5	3	.258	.307	.351	.658	93.4	91.4	.307	1.2
1990	159	696	583	93	148	28	7	7	52	65	109	10	6	.254	.329	.362	.691	98.1	94.0	.323	2.9
1991	157	697	608	96	164	32	8	16	67	52	99	10	6	.270	.330	.428	.757	116.3	114.5	.346	4.5
1992	159	712	632	87	167	36	6	9	55	55	103	7	5	.264	.326	.383	.709	104.9	101.4	.331	3.7
1993	154	701	604	102	187	32	9	9	51	77	122	16	10	.310	.392	.437	.830	127.4	122.9	.377	5.5
1994	110	487	424	68	117	35	4	9	45	49	82	2	0	.276	.353	.441	.794	107.4	104.4	.355	2.6
1995	138	593	530	79	139	28	4	13	55	55	110	2	5	.262	.336	.404	.739	94.9	92.6	.336	2.3
1996	151	598	527	65	132	29	3	13	71	54	108	6	4	.250	.323	.391	.714	84.8	85.4	.320	1.6
1997	153	660	573	89	167	28	3	21	92	71	101	10	6	.291	.368	.461	.829	115.2	113.5	.367	4.1
1998	155	645	549	79	138	29	5	20	67	81	129	3	5	.251	.353	.432	.785	108.8	106.1	.352	3.6
1999	151	688	589	132	170	32	6	38	112	82	132	7	4	.289	.374	.557	.931	131.2	131.6	.401	5.2
2000	149	649	565	87	151	30	6	18	68	70	88	7	3	.267	.348	.437	.786	98.0	95.9	.350	2.2
2001	129	509	428	59	106	24	1	13	46	65	79	0	1	.248	.349	.400	.749	92.5	89.6	.335	1.3
2002	32	56	49	3	8	1	0	2	11	5	9	0	0	.163	.250	.306	.556	36.8	41.5	.256	-0.3
2003	72	142	116	11	21	1	0	0	3	22	38	0	0	.181	.319	.190	.509	47.7	39.4	.259	-0.5

Career totals

2,063

216th-most career G

8,525

207th-most career PA

7,398

232nd-most career AB

1,123

250th-most career R

1,963

313th-most career H

394

213th-most career 2B

437th-most career 3B

195

404th-most career HR

RBI

860

448th-most career RBI

853

216th-most career BB

1,443

95th-most career SO

.2653

OBP

.3434

SLG

.4158

OPS

.7592

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
1991-07-27	PIT @ HOU Gameday	5	4	4	0	2	4	1	10
1999-04-13	LAD @ AZ Gameday	6	2	4	0	2	2	0	10
1995-08-06	HOU @ PIT Gameday	3	2	3	1	2	3	1	10
1999-04-25	AZ @ SD Gameday	6	4	3	1	2	3	0	10
1992-05-13	PIT @ ATL Gameday	6	3	4	2	1	4	0	9

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

1× Gold Glove1× Silver Slugger2× 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.