Jerry Reuss

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 200 lb

BornJune 19, 1949 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 27, 1969

Final gameOctober 3, 1990

Seasons22 (1969–1990)

St. Louis Cardinals 1969–1971; Houston Astros 1972–1973; Pittsburgh Pirates 1974–1978; Los Angeles Dodgers 1979–1986; California Angels 1987; Cincinnati Reds 1987; Los Angeles Dodgers 1987; Chicago White Sox 1988–1989; Milwaukee Brewers 1989; Pittsburgh Pirates 1990

Percentile snapshot

1988 season — qualified pitchers

26.7

21.1

46.7

66.7

SHO

183

76.7

91.1

2.2

54.4

183.0

ERA

3.44

48.9

WHIP

1.235

57.8

K/9

3.59

3.3

FIP

3.84

31.1

FIP-

96.9

45.6

ERA+

115.3

68.9

sWAR

2.9

54.4

of 91 qualified 1988 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.9

sWAR

37.6

97.6

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1969	1	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	87.3	88.2	.311	0.4
1970	20	48	40	3	2	0	0	0	1	3	32	1	.050	.116	.050	.166	-61.3	-53.9	.095	1.0
1971	36	86	65	6	8	1	0	0	4	10	36	0	.123	.240	.138	.378	10.3	8.3	.205	-1.0
1972	33	72	66	5	7	2	0	0	1	5	40	0	.106	.169	.136	.305	-19.0	-11.1	.156	-0.1
1973	42	109	95	7	13	3	0	0	8	4	45	0	.137	.170	.168	.338	-14.5	-5.3	.163	2.3
1974	35	98	86	7	13	1	0	0	4	8	25	0	.151	.223	.163	.386	12.3	11.8	.200	2.5
1975	32	86	71	6	14	2	0	0	2	5	27	0	.197	.250	.225	.475	32.2	34.5	.234	5.5
1976	31	78	66	7	16	1	1	0	8	9	22	0	.242	.333	.288	.621	86.4	79.0	.308	2.6
1977	35	80	70	3	12	2	0	0	6	6	26	0	.171	.237	.200	.437	16.7	18.5	.214	1.8
1978	23	27	27	1	5	2	0	0	1	0	12	0	.185	.185	.259	.444	8.5	21.8	.203	-0.4
1979	39	49	42	4	7	1	0	0	1	3	19	0	.167	.239	.190	.430	20.5	20.3	.215	1.9
1980	37	78	68	4	6	1	0	1	3	6	25	0	.088	.162	.147	.309	-17.3	-11.9	.158	5.0
1981	22	58	51	3	10	0	0	0	3	0	18	0	.196	.196	.196	.392	2.3	14.3	.184	3.5
1982	39	95	77	8	17	3	0	0	3	2	28	0	.221	.241	.260	.500	38.6	42.7	.235	4.0
1983	32	83	71	4	20	2	0	0	3	2	28	0	.282	.301	.310	.611	70.7	71.7	.287	4.5
1984	30	29	24	2	4	1	0	0	2	3	9	0	.167	.259	.208	.468	38.9	34.9	.237	0.7
1985	34	83	74	1	10	0	0	0	7	2	28	0	.135	.156	.135	.291	-27.0	-16.1	.140	3.4
1986	19	21	20	0	5	1	0	0	0	1	6	0	.250	.286	.300	.586	67.4	67.6	.275	-1.2
1987	25	10	8	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	5	0	.125	.125	.250	.375	-20.5	-5.0	.161	-1.0
1988	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.9
1989	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.8
1990	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1969	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	3	0	7.0	0.00	.714	3.86	3.94	110.0	—	0.4
1970	20	20	7	8	0	5	2	132	58	49	74	9	127.3	4.10	1.421	5.23	3.78	91.8	100.5	1.0
1971	36	35	14	14	0	7	2	228	112	109	131	15	211.0	4.78	1.597	5.59	3.87	108.1	75.0	-1.0
1972	33	30	9	13	1	4	1	177	89	83	174	14	192.0	4.17	1.354	8.16	3.12	92.0	81.2	-0.1
1973	41	40	16	13	0	12	3	271	116	117	177	17	279.3	3.74	1.389	5.70	3.36	92.2	97.6	2.3
1974	35	35	16	11	0	14	1	259	101	101	105	20	260.0	3.50	1.385	3.63	3.95	113.0	100.1	2.5
1975	32	32	18	11	0	15	6	224	67	78	131	10	237.3	2.54	1.272	4.97	3.05	85.6	140.1	5.5
1976	31	29	14	9	2	11	3	209	82	51	108	16	209.3	3.53	1.242	4.64	3.37	97.0	98.5	2.6
1977	33	33	10	13	0	8	2	225	95	71	116	11	208.0	4.11	1.423	5.02	3.39	85.8	96.1	1.8
1978	23	12	3	2	0	3	1	97	45	23	42	5	82.7	4.90	1.452	4.57	3.34	90.7	75.1	-0.4
1979	39	21	7	14	3	4	1	178	63	60	83	4	160.0	3.54	1.488	4.67	3.16	86.1	103.6	1.9
1980	37	29	18	6	3	10	6	193	64	40	111	12	229.3	2.51	1.016	4.36	2.98	84.3	140.8	5.0
1981	22	22	10	4	0	8	2	138	39	27	51	6	152.7	2.30	1.081	3.01	3.12	93.1	145.8	3.5
1982	39	37	18	11	0	8	4	232	88	50	138	11	254.7	3.11	1.107	4.88	2.84	81.2	112.4	4.0
1983	32	31	12	11	0	7	0	233	73	50	143	12	223.3	2.94	1.267	5.76	2.79	77.9	121.7	4.5
1984	30	15	5	7	1	2	0	102	42	31	44	4	99.0	3.82	1.343	4.00	3.37	95.8	92.1	0.7
1985	34	33	14	10	0	5	3	210	69	58	84	13	212.7	2.92	1.260	3.55	3.48	100.2	119.1	3.4
1986	19	13	2	6	1	0	0	96	48	17	29	13	74.0	5.84	1.527	3.53	5.02	143.6	59.8	-1.2
1987	25	23	4	10	0	1	1	166	79	29	49	18	119.0	5.97	1.639	3.71	4.82	111.8	72.0	-1.0
1988	32	29	13	9	0	2	0	183	70	43	73	15	183.0	3.44	1.235	3.59	3.84	96.9	115.3	2.9
1989	30	26	9	9	0	1	1	171	80	34	40	19	140.3	5.13	1.461	2.57	4.85	126.9	74.5	-0.8
1990	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	8	3	3	1	1	7.7	3.52	1.435	1.17	5.42	147.8	104.1	0.1

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

631

1,195

1,024

171

RBI

433

.1670

OBP

.2199

SLG

.1953

OPS

.4152

Pitching

G (P)

628

198th-most career G (P)

547

34th-most career GS

220

82nd-most career W

191

52nd-most career L

127

304th-most career CG

SHO

51st-most career SHO

3,670

57th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,907

109th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,127

69th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.637

WHIP

1.3246

K/9

4.68

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	HR	RBI	TB
1983-09-28	LAD @ SD Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	1	4
1980-08-25	LAD @ PHI Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	4
1984-04-16	LAD @ HOU Gameday	3	1	3	0	0	1	3
1971-05-10	STL @ WSH Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	2	3
1978-09-27	CHC @ PIT Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1975-05-13	SD @ PIT Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	2	12	0
1974-09-17	STL @ PIT Gameday	13.0	8	2	2	5	11	0
1983-06-25	HOU @ LAD Gameday	10.0	11	1	1	0	11	0
1971-05-04	STL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	6	3	3	4	10	1
1971-08-31	NYM @ STL Gameday	9.0	9	1	1	5	10	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

2× 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.