MLB / Players

Jay Hook

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 182 lb

BornNovember 18, 1936 · Waukegan, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 3, 1957

Final gameMay 3, 1964

Seasons8 (1957–1964)

Cincinnati Redlegs 1957–1959; Cincinnati Reds 1960–1961; New York Mets 1962–1964

Percentile snapshot

1962 season — qualified pitchers

52.2

68.7

77.6

SHO

230

34.3

115

4.5

49.3

113

31.3

213.7

52.2

ERA

4.84

7.5

WHIP

1.409

20.9

K/9

4.76

26.9

FIP

4.66

FIP-

113.4

7.5

ERA+

84.8

7.5

sWAR

0.6

of 68 qualified 1962 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-4.9

0.1

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1957	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.4	-100.0	.000	0.0
1958	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-136.9	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1959	19	27	24	2	3	0	1	1	9	.125	.160	.125	.285	-35.6	-23.5	.139	-0.3
1960	36	85	72	3	6	0	3	7	24	.083	.165	.083	.248	-35.3	-29.9	.135	0.1
1961	22	15	15	1	2	0	0	0	5	.133	.133	.133	.267	-42.3	-28.9	.121	-2.1
1962	41	83	69	6	14	0	5	8	24	.203	.286	.203	.489	34.3	31.6	.244	0.6
1963	41	43	38	4	9	1	1	2	13	.237	.268	.263	.531	47.3	52.3	.247	-2.4
1964	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.5	-100.0	.000	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1957	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	6	5	8	6	0	10.0	4.50	1.400	5.40	3.71	90.9	90.8	0.0
1958	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	3	4	2	5	2	3.0	12.00	1.667	15.00	9.84	236.7	34.6	-0.3
1959	17	15	5	5	0	4	0	79	45	39	37	11	79.0	5.13	1.494	4.22	5.09	125.6	79.1	-0.3
1960	36	33	11	18	0	10	2	222	111	73	103	31	222.0	4.50	1.329	4.18	4.59	120.1	85.0	0.1
1961	22	5	1	3	0	0	0	83	54	22	36	14	62.7	7.76	1.676	5.17	5.71	140.9	52.3	-2.1
1962	37	34	8	19	0	13	0	230	115	71	113	31	213.7	4.84	1.409	4.76	4.66	113.4	84.8	0.6
1963	41	20	4	14	1	3	0	168	93	53	89	21	152.7	5.48	1.448	5.25	4.34	128.7	61.5	-2.4
1964	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	17	10	7	5	2	9.7	9.31	2.483	4.66	6.58	184.8	38.2	-0.6

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

166

260

225

RBI

.1511

OBP

.2131

SLG

.1556

OPS

.3687

Pitching

G (P)

160

112

SHO

753

SO (P)

394

BB allowed

275

ERA

5.225

WHIP

1.4389

K/9

4.71

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	RBI	TB
1959-09-05	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	2
1962-06-23	HOU @ NYM Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2
1963-05-08	PHI @ NYM Gameday	4	0	1	1	0	2
1960-04-16	CIN @ PIT Gameday	5	0	1	0	2	1
1962-04-23	NYM @ PIT Gameday	4	2	1	0	2	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1960-05-18	LAD @ CIN Gameday	11.0	10	4	4	2	10	0
1962-07-19	PIT @ NYM Gameday	10.0	8	7	6	5	10	2
1963-05-08	PHI @ NYM Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	4	10	1
1962-08-29	NYM @ PHI Gameday	9.0	9	3	1	3	9	0
1960-05-03	CIN @ LAD Gameday	8.1	10	3	3	3	9	2

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.