Jerry Hairston
Chicago White Sox 1973–1977; Pittsburgh Pirates 1977; Chicago White Sox 1981–1989
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 60 | 245 | 210 | 25 | 57 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 33 | 30 | 0 | 0 | .271 | .371 | .333 | .705 | 106.3 | 97.9 | .341 | 0.6 |
| 1974 | 45 | 125 | 109 | 8 | 25 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 13 | 18 | 0 | 2 | .229 | .311 | .294 | .605 | 77.6 | 73.6 | .294 | -0.1 |
| 1975 | 69 | 274 | 219 | 26 | 62 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 46 | 23 | 1 | 0 | .283 | .407 | .320 | .726 | 116.5 | 106.4 | .355 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 44 | 147 | 119 | 20 | 27 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 24 | 19 | 1 | 1 | .227 | .352 | .277 | .629 | 96.6 | 85.7 | .317 | 0.2 |
| 1977 | 64 | 90 | 78 | 8 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .322 | .359 | .681 | 86.9 | 83.9 | .316 | 0.1 |
| 1981 | 9 | 29 | 25 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .280 | .345 | .440 | .785 | 127.6 | 128.0 | .357 | 0.2 |
| 1982 | 85 | 103 | 90 | 11 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .233 | .294 | .456 | .750 | 100.0 | 103.5 | .327 | 0.2 |
| 1983 | 101 | 151 | 126 | 17 | 37 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 22 | 23 | 16 | 0 | 1 | .294 | .397 | .500 | .897 | 142.1 | 143.5 | .393 | 1.1 |
| 1984 | 115 | 271 | 227 | 41 | 59 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 41 | 29 | 2 | 1 | .260 | .373 | .401 | .774 | 116.3 | 111.9 | .354 | 1.1 |
| 1985 | 95 | 175 | 140 | 9 | 34 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 29 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .243 | .371 | .343 | .714 | 98.8 | 95.4 | .329 | 0.2 |
| 1986 | 101 | 253 | 225 | 32 | 61 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 0 | .271 | .348 | .404 | .752 | 102.7 | 102.5 | .337 | 0.4 |
| 1987 | 66 | 155 | 126 | 14 | 29 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 20 | 25 | 25 | 0 | 0 | .230 | .357 | .413 | .770 | 103.6 | 102.3 | .342 | 0.3 |
| 1988 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -122.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1989 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 90.0 | 91.1 | .308 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986-08-01 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1975-09-24 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1987-07-29 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1984-07-17 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1985-07-22 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
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.