Jay Tessmer
New York Yankees 1998–2000; New York Yankees 2002
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.2 |
| 1999 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
| 2002 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 8.7 | 3.12 | .923 | 6.23 | 4.72 | 106.6 | 142.2 | 0.2 |
| 1999 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 6.7 | 14.85 | 3.000 | 4.05 | 6.50 | 138.2 | 31.7 | -0.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6.7 | 6.75 | 1.500 | 6.75 | 8.02 | 167.7 | 70.9 | -0.1 |
| 2002 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.3 | 6.75 | 1.500 | 0.00 | 7.56 | 172.9 | 64.8 | 0.0 |
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
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-09-19 | NYY @ TOR Gameday | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998-08-27 | LAA @ NYY Gameday | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998-08-30 | SEA @ NYY Gameday | 2.1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998-09-05 | NYY @ CWS Gameday | 2.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999-05-08 | SEA @ NYY Gameday | 2.0 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
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.