Jay Porter
St. Louis Browns 1952; Detroit Tigers 1955–1957; Cleveland Indians 1958; St. Louis Cardinals 1959; Washington Senators 1959
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 33 | 115 | 104 | 12 | 26 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 0 | .250 | .316 | .308 | .623 | 67.8 | 70.3 | .300 | 0.0 |
| 1955 | 24 | 63 | 55 | 6 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .236 | .333 | .273 | .606 | 73.2 | 67.0 | .302 | 0.0 |
| 1956 | 14 | 22 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .095 | .091 | .095 | .186 | -71.8 | -50.4 | .085 | -0.4 |
| 1957 | 58 | 156 | 140 | 14 | 35 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .323 | .350 | .673 | 83.8 | 83.4 | .314 | 0.1 |
| 1958 | 40 | 96 | 85 | 13 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 19 | 9 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .284 | .353 | .637 | 77.0 | 76.5 | .295 | 0.2 |
| 1959 | 60 | 156 | 139 | 13 | 31 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .223 | .290 | .317 | .607 | 62.3 | 64.2 | .279 | 0.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-09-28 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1957-04-25 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1958-06-29 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1959-05-19 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1959-08-08 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-08-01 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952-08-02 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952-08-03 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952-08-03 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952-08-05 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.