Jerry Morales

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 155 lb

BornFebruary 18, 1949 · Yabucoa, P.R.

MLB debutSeptember 5, 1969

Final gameSeptember 28, 1983

Seasons15 (1969–1983)

San Diego Padres 1969–1973; Chicago Cubs 1974–1977; St. Louis Cardinals 1978; Detroit Tigers 1979; New York Mets 1980; Chicago Cubs 1981–1983

Percentile snapshot

1977 season — qualified batters

136

12.3

538

14.4

490

19.2

8.9

142

32.2

84.9

47.9

34.2

RBI

47.9

31.5

48.6

.290

66.4

OBP

.348

53.4

SLG

.447

55.5

OPS

.795

57.5

wRC+

103.4

35.6

OPS+

102.4

33.6

wOBA

.357

58.9

sWAR

2.2

41.1

of 147 qualified 1977 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

87.5

19.8

OPS+

89.1

21.4

sWAR

5.6

80.7

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
1969	19	46	41	5	8	2	0	1	6	5	7	0	2	.195	.283	.317	.600	72.6	69.9	.287	0.0
1970	28	61	58	6	9	0	1	1	4	3	11	0	0	.155	.197	.241	.438	14.3	18.6	.205	-0.6
1971	12	19	17	1	2	0	0	0	1	2	2	1	0	.118	.211	.118	.328	-1.3	-2.1	.177	-0.2
1972	115	393	347	38	83	15	7	4	18	35	54	4	6	.239	.307	.357	.665	93.8	93.8	.309	0.8
1973	122	420	388	47	109	23	2	9	34	27	55	6	5	.281	.325	.420	.745	110.0	111.0	.339	1.7
1974	151	590	534	70	146	21	7	15	82	46	63	2	12	.273	.330	.423	.754	106.2	105.9	.350	1.8
1975	153	644	578	62	156	21	0	12	91	50	65	3	7	.270	.328	.369	.696	85.7	88.9	.323	0.3
1976	140	583	537	66	147	17	0	16	67	41	49	3	8	.274	.323	.395	.718	93.2	95.7	.331	0.8
1977	136	538	490	56	142	34	5	11	69	43	75	0	3	.290	.348	.447	.795	103.4	102.4	.357	2.2
1978	130	499	457	44	109	19	8	4	46	33	44	4	4	.239	.288	.341	.629	63.5	66.9	.293	-1.0
1979	129	482	440	50	93	23	1	14	56	30	56	10	4	.211	.260	.364	.624	61.8	65.2	.279	-1.2
1980	94	216	193	19	49	7	1	3	30	13	31	2	3	.254	.293	.347	.640	74.9	80.5	.290	0.1
1981	84	272	245	27	70	6	2	1	25	22	29	1	1	.286	.343	.339	.682	94.3	90.4	.326	0.7
1982	65	126	116	14	33	2	2	4	30	9	7	1	2	.284	.333	.440	.773	112.8	112.4	.352	0.7
1983	63	95	87	11	17	9	0	0	11	7	19	0	0	.195	.253	.299	.551	46.3	49.7	.260	-0.4

Career totals

1,441

4,984

4,528

516

1,173

199

RBI

570

366

567

.2591

OBP

.3129

SLG

.3818

OPS

.6947

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
1974-05-22	CHC @ NYM Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	6	0	9
1974-06-08	CHC @ LAD Gameday	5	3	3	1	1	1	2	0	9
1976-06-24	PIT @ CHC Gameday	6	2	3	2	0	1	1	0	8
1976-04-13	NYM @ CHC Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	4	1	8
1979-08-07	TEX @ DET Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	0	8

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.