Jerry Lynch
Pittsburgh Pirates 1954–1956; Cincinnati Redlegs 1957–1959; Cincinnati Reds 1960–1963; Pittsburgh Pirates 1963–1966
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+ 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 98 | 308 | 284 | 27 | 68 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 36 | 20 | 43 | 2 | 2 | .239 | .290 | .373 | .663 | 65.9 | 71.1 | .297 | -0.7 |
| 1955 | 88 | 308 | 282 | 43 | 80 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 28 | 22 | 33 | 2 | 2 | .284 | .331 | .443 | .774 | 101.1 | 103.9 | .338 | 0.7 |
| 1956 | 19 | 20 | 19 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .158 | .200 | .263 | .463 | 18.5 | 24.6 | .210 | -0.1 |
| 1957 | 67 | 131 | 124 | 11 | 32 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .258 | .290 | .403 | .693 | 75.1 | 79.7 | .303 | -0.1 |
| 1958 | 122 | 443 | 420 | 58 | 131 | 20 | 5 | 16 | 68 | 18 | 54 | 1 | 4 | .312 | .338 | .498 | .835 | 114.0 | 112.8 | .366 | 1.7 |
| 1959 | 117 | 415 | 379 | 49 | 102 | 16 | 3 | 17 | 58 | 29 | 50 | 2 | 0 | .269 | .320 | .462 | .782 | 103.3 | 103.1 | .345 | 1.1 |
| 1960 | 102 | 178 | 159 | 23 | 46 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 27 | 16 | 25 | 0 | 0 | .289 | .356 | .478 | .834 | 124.8 | 124.8 | .367 | 1.0 |
| 1961 | 96 | 210 | 181 | 33 | 57 | 13 | 2 | 13 | 50 | 27 | 25 | 2 | 2 | .315 | .407 | .624 | 1.031 | 166.6 | 168.5 | .439 | 2.2 |
| 1962 | 114 | 316 | 288 | 41 | 81 | 15 | 4 | 12 | 57 | 24 | 38 | 3 | 3 | .281 | .335 | .486 | .822 | 113.3 | 116.4 | .360 | 1.2 |
| 1963 | 110 | 296 | 269 | 31 | 71 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 45 | 23 | 33 | 0 | 1 | .264 | .324 | .454 | .778 | 123.4 | 122.0 | .348 | 1.5 |
| 1964 | 114 | 329 | 297 | 35 | 81 | 14 | 2 | 16 | 66 | 26 | 57 | 0 | 1 | .273 | .328 | .495 | .823 | 128.7 | 129.8 | .361 | 1.9 |
| 1965 | 73 | 131 | 121 | 7 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 16 | 8 | 26 | 0 | 2 | .281 | .328 | .413 | .741 | 104.1 | 108.3 | .327 | 0.4 |
| 1966 | 64 | 60 | 56 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .267 | .286 | .552 | 48.2 | 54.3 | .249 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-04-27 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1964-06-25 | PIT @ NYM Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 1965-05-04 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1958-09-19 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 1959-05-01 | LAD @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-04-29 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-05-02 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-05-04 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-05-09 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-05-13 | ATL @ PIT 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.