Jay Ward
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 9 | 16 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .067 | .125 | .133 | .258 | -40.2 | -27.8 | .127 | -0.2 |
| 1964 | 12 | 37 | 31 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .226 | .351 | .290 | .642 | 82.9 | 81.4 | .301 | 0.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .400 | .000 | .400 | 74.6 | 17.9 | .300 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964-10-02 | LAA @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1964-09-15 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1963-05-10 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1964-09-16 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 1964-09-30 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.