Jerry Grote

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 185 lb

BornOctober 6, 1942 · San Antonio, TX, USA

MLB debutSeptember 21, 1963

Final gameOctober 3, 1981

Seasons16 (1963–1981)

Houston Colt .45's 1963–1964; New York Mets 1966–1976; Los Angeles Dodgers 1977; New York Mets 1977; Los Angeles Dodgers 1978; Kansas City Royals 1981; Los Angeles Dodgers 1981

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

wRC+

81.5

11.9

OPS+

83.8

14.3

sWAR

18.0

92.6

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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	3	7	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	3	0	0	.200	.286	.200	.486	47.3	46.9	.237	0.0
1964	100	325	298	26	54	9	3	3	24	20	75	0	2	.181	.240	.262	.502	40.5	46.1	.228	-0.4
1966	120	364	317	26	75	12	2	3	31	40	81	4	3	.237	.327	.315	.642	80.1	80.7	.294	1.4
1967	120	367	344	25	67	8	0	4	23	14	65	2	2	.195	.226	.253	.479	24.6	38.0	.213	-1.0
1968	124	454	404	29	114	18	0	3	31	44	81	1	5	.282	.357	.349	.706	115.9	113.6	.331	3.5
1969	113	406	365	38	92	12	3	6	40	32	59	2	1	.252	.313	.351	.663	83.7	85.7	.307	1.6
1970	126	463	415	38	106	14	1	2	34	36	39	2	1	.255	.313	.308	.621	65.8	68.7	.286	0.6
1971	125	450	403	35	109	25	0	2	35	40	47	1	4	.270	.339	.347	.686	99.7	97.4	.323	2.6
1972	64	241	205	15	43	5	1	3	21	26	27	1	0	.210	.304	.288	.592	65.1	72.2	.272	0.4
1973	84	305	285	17	73	10	2	1	32	13	23	0	0	.256	.290	.316	.606	68.5	70.1	.283	0.6
1974	97	363	319	25	82	8	1	5	36	33	33	0	1	.257	.326	.335	.661	87.7	87.9	.313	1.5
1975	119	428	386	28	114	14	5	2	39	38	23	0	1	.295	.357	.373	.731	107.7	108.5	.341	2.8
1976	101	366	323	30	88	14	2	4	28	38	19	1	2	.272	.350	.365	.715	112.1	109.8	.339	2.6
1977	60	158	142	11	38	3	1	0	11	11	17	0	1	.268	.329	.303	.632	75.3	75.1	.294	0.4
1978	41	83	70	5	19	5	0	0	9	10	5	0	0	.271	.354	.343	.697	99.8	97.5	.328	0.6
1981	24	64	58	4	17	3	1	1	9	3	3	1	0	.293	.333	.431	.764	121.0	121.1	.349	0.6

Career totals

1,421

4,844

4,339

352

1,092

160

RBI

404

399

600

.2517

OBP

.3162

SLG

.3257

OPS

.6419

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
1972-04-27	NYM @ SD Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	1	2	0	8
1972-05-19	NYM @ PHI Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	4	0	8
1981-06-03	SEA @ KC Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	7	0	7
1968-05-12	NYM @ CHC Gameday	3	1	3	1	0	1	1	0	7
1969-08-01	ATL @ NYM Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	1	1	7

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.

Honors

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.