Jerry Buchek
St. Louis Cardinals 1961; St. Louis Cardinals 1963–1966; New York Mets 1967–1968
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 31 | 93 | 90 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .151 | .156 | .306 | -35.8 | -21.1 | .141 | -1.1 |
| 1963 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 29.7 | 40.0 | .229 | 0.0 |
| 1964 | 35 | 33 | 30 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .273 | .333 | .606 | 64.6 | 64.4 | .281 | 0.1 |
| 1965 | 55 | 181 | 166 | 17 | 41 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 46 | 1 | 0 | .247 | .300 | .386 | .686 | 85.2 | 87.7 | .307 | 0.4 |
| 1966 | 100 | 313 | 284 | 23 | 67 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 25 | 23 | 71 | 0 | 5 | .236 | .288 | .342 | .630 | 69.4 | 73.7 | .282 | 0.2 |
| 1967 | 124 | 444 | 411 | 35 | 97 | 11 | 2 | 14 | 41 | 26 | 101 | 3 | 5 | .236 | .283 | .375 | .658 | 85.9 | 88.4 | .299 | 1.0 |
| 1968 | 73 | 207 | 192 | 8 | 35 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 53 | 1 | 1 | .182 | .234 | .219 | .453 | 22.8 | 37.2 | .209 | -1.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967-09-02 | NYM @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1967-09-22 | HOU @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 8 |
| 1966-05-13 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1967-05-14 | NYM @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1965-09-30 | STL @ HOU Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
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.