MLB / Players

Jay Ward

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb
BornSeptember 9, 1938 · Brookfield, MO, USA
MLB debutMay 6, 1963
Final gameJune 7, 1970
Seasons3 (1963–1970)

Minnesota Twins 1963–1964; Cincinnati Reds 1970

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
-0.2
26.3

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1963916150110021500.067.125.133.258-40.2-27.8.127-0.2
196412373147200261300.226.351.290.64282.981.4.3010.0
19706530000002100.000.400.000.40074.617.9.3000.0

Career totals

G
27
PA
58
AB
49
R
4
H
8
2B
3
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
4
BB
9
SO
19
SB
0
BA
.1633
OBP
.2931
SLG
.2245
OPS
.5176

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1964-10-02LAA @ MIN Gameday412100203
1964-09-15MIN @ BAL Gameday412100003
1963-05-10ATH @ MIN Gameday301100202
1964-09-16MIN @ BAL Gameday101000031
1964-09-30ATH @ MIN Gameday411000001

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.