Jay Ritchie
Boston Red Sox 1964–1965; Atlanta Braves 1966–1967; Cincinnati Reds 1968
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 21 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .222 | -65.7 | -39.5 | .101 | 1.0 |
| 1965 | 44 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .333 | .200 | .533 | 61.3 | 50.6 | .277 | 1.2 |
| 1966 | 22 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 191.0 | 177.5 | .456 | 0.3 |
| 1967 | 52 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .300 | .300 | .500 | .800 | 128.7 | 126.6 | .360 | 1.1 |
| 1968 | 28 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -143.1 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.7 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 14 | 14 | 35 | 4 | 46.0 | 2.74 | 1.239 | 6.85 | 2.98 | 77.5 | 140.4 | 1.0 |
| 1965 | 44 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 25 | 26 | 55 | 3 | 71.0 | 3.17 | 1.535 | 6.97 | 2.54 | 68.4 | 117.1 | 1.2 |
| 1966 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 16 | 12 | 33 | 3 | 35.3 | 4.08 | 1.245 | 8.41 | 2.93 | 79.6 | 90.2 | 0.3 |
| 1967 | 52 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 29 | 29 | 57 | 6 | 82.3 | 3.17 | 1.263 | 6.23 | 3.42 | 102.2 | 105.6 | 1.1 |
| 1968 | 28 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 29 | 13 | 32 | 7 | 56.7 | 4.61 | 1.429 | 5.08 | 3.76 | 119.4 | 68.4 | -0.7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967-05-16 | NYM @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1965-05-23 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1966-09-04 | HOU @ ATL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1967-05-23 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1964-08-13 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965-09-01 | BOS @ TEX Gameday | 5.1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| 1964-09-18 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 4.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1967-05-16 | NYM @ ATL Gameday | 5.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1967-08-14 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 4.2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 1966-09-04 | HOU @ ATL Gameday | 4.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 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.