Jerry Lumpe

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornJune 2, 1933 · Lincoln, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1956

Final gameOctober 1, 1967

Seasons12 (1956–1967)

New York Yankees 1956–1958; Kansas City Athletics 1959; New York Yankees 1959; Kansas City Athletics 1960–1963; Detroit Tigers 1964–1967

Percentile snapshot

1965 season — qualified batters

145

34.7

575

31.6

502

21.1

48.4

129

23.2

3.2

28.4

8.4

RBI

6.3

56.8

97.9

56.8

90.5

.257

32.6

OBP

.333

48.4

SLG

.323

9.5

OPS

.655

18.9

wRC+

91.0

22.1

OPS+

86.9

18.9

wOBA

.309

23.2

sWAR

1.6

28.4

of 96 qualified 1965 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

86.5

OPS+

86.1

17.3

sWAR

11.8

88.6

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
1956	20	68	62	12	16	3	0	0	4	5	11	1	1	.258	.313	.306	.620	60.5	69.1	.281	0.0
1957	40	113	103	15	35	6	2	0	11	9	13	2	2	.340	.389	.437	.826	134.6	130.0	.380	0.9
1958	81	262	232	34	59	8	4	3	32	23	21	1	2	.254	.319	.362	.681	90.5	92.3	.310	0.7
1959	126	504	448	49	108	11	5	3	30	47	39	2	1	.241	.313	.308	.621	68.5	70.0	.288	0.2
1960	146	630	574	69	156	19	3	8	53	48	49	1	1	.272	.326	.357	.683	82.9	82.9	.316	1.1
1961	148	627	569	81	167	29	9	3	54	48	39	1	0	.293	.348	.392	.740	96.4	95.1	.339	2.1
1962	156	700	641	89	193	34	10	10	83	44	38	0	2	.301	.341	.432	.774	102.0	102.0	.346	2.8
1963	157	663	595	75	161	26	7	5	59	58	44	3	2	.271	.333	.363	.696	90.9	89.7	.318	1.8
1964	158	688	624	75	160	21	6	6	46	50	61	2	1	.256	.312	.338	.650	79.6	80.3	.297	0.9
1965	145	575	502	72	129	15	3	4	39	56	34	7	0	.257	.333	.323	.655	91.0	86.9	.309	1.6
1966	113	418	385	30	89	14	3	1	26	24	44	0	3	.231	.275	.291	.566	59.1	61.8	.261	-0.5
1967	81	193	177	19	41	4	0	4	17	16	18	0	0	.232	.295	.322	.617	79.3	81.2	.287	0.3

Career totals

1,371

5,441

4,912

620

1,314

190

RBI

454

428

411

.2675

OBP

.3250

SLG

.3561

OPS

.6811

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
1962-07-04	ATH @ NYY Gameday	6	2	4	0	1	1	4	0	9
1960-09-27	CLE @ ATH Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	1	2	0	8
1960-05-22	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5	3	2	0	0	2	4	0	8
1963-08-20	TEX @ ATH Gameday	6	2	4	0	0	1	2	1	7
1962-04-21	ATH @ CWS Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	3	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1959-06-03	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-05-26	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-05-27	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-19	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-20	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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

1× 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.