Jerry May
Pittsburgh Pirates 1964–1970; Kansas City Royals 1971–1973; New York Mets 1973
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 11 | 35 | 31 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .258 | .314 | .258 | .572 | 66.8 | 64.6 | .273 | 0.1 |
| 1965 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 196.2 | 184.1 | .458 | 0.1 |
| 1966 | 42 | 56 | 52 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .291 | .385 | .676 | 81.7 | 86.6 | .297 | 0.4 |
| 1967 | 110 | 365 | 325 | 23 | 88 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 36 | 55 | 0 | 0 | .271 | .348 | .351 | .699 | 92.3 | 100.7 | .310 | 1.9 |
| 1968 | 137 | 467 | 416 | 26 | 91 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 33 | 41 | 80 | 0 | 0 | .219 | .293 | .272 | .564 | 66.1 | 71.8 | .265 | 1.1 |
| 1969 | 62 | 205 | 190 | 21 | 44 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 23 | 9 | 53 | 1 | 1 | .232 | .268 | .384 | .653 | 79.9 | 83.9 | .297 | 0.7 |
| 1970 | 51 | 163 | 139 | 13 | 29 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 21 | 25 | 0 | 0 | .209 | .313 | .288 | .601 | 60.4 | 65.3 | .274 | 0.1 |
| 1971 | 71 | 249 | 218 | 16 | 55 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 27 | 37 | 0 | 0 | .252 | .329 | .344 | .673 | 86.0 | 93.2 | .305 | 1.1 |
| 1972 | 53 | 131 | 116 | 10 | 22 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .190 | .277 | .276 | .553 | 58.8 | 63.5 | .265 | 0.2 |
| 1973 | 15 | 43 | 38 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .158 | .256 | .237 | .493 | 38.4 | 37.5 | .245 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967-10-01 | HOU @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1969-07-06 | NYM @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1968-06-15 | HOU @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1967-07-13 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1969-04-25 | WSH @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964-04-28 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1964-05-08 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1964-07-09 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1964-09-22 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1964-09-23 | 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.