Jerry Royster

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 165 lb

BornOctober 18, 1952 · Sacramento, CA, USA

MLB debutAugust 14, 1973

Final gameSeptember 28, 1988

Seasons16 (1973–1988)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1973–1975; Atlanta Braves 1976–1984; San Diego Padres 1985–1986; Chicago White Sox 1987; New York Yankees 1987; Atlanta Braves 1988

Percentile snapshot

1979 season — qualified batters

154

71.9

676

79.9

601

81.3

103

89.9

164

68.3

74.1

7.2

RBI

67.6

60.4

90.6

31.7

.273

38.1

OBP

.337

40.3

SLG

.349

10.1

OPS

.687

18.7

wRC+

85.5

18.7

OPS+

82.3

12.9

wOBA

.323

24.5

sWAR

1.3

21.6

of 140 qualified 1979 batters (min 496 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

77.9

8.2

OPS+

77.3

7.2

sWAR

5.1

79.6

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
1973	10	19	19	1	4	0	0	0	2	0	5	1	0	.211	.211	.211	.421	12.6	20.6	.196	-0.1
1974	6	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1975	13	37	36	2	9	2	1	0	1	1	3	1	0	.250	.270	.361	.631	75.8	79.5	.293	0.0
1976	149	605	533	65	132	13	1	5	45	52	53	24	13	.248	.313	.304	.617	70.4	70.9	.296	0.1
1977	140	491	445	64	96	10	2	6	28	38	67	28	10	.216	.278	.288	.566	39.8	44.7	.264	-1.6
1978	140	600	529	67	137	17	8	2	35	56	49	27	17	.259	.331	.333	.664	91.9	88.1	.316	1.9
1979	154	676	601	103	164	25	6	3	51	62	59	35	8	.273	.337	.349	.687	85.5	82.3	.323	1.3
1980	123	435	392	42	95	17	5	1	20	37	48	22	13	.242	.309	.319	.627	74.9	73.0	.298	0.1
1981	64	105	93	13	19	4	1	0	9	7	14	7	5	.204	.257	.269	.526	44.5	48.0	.253	-0.3
1982	108	293	261	43	77	13	2	2	25	22	36	14	6	.295	.351	.383	.734	105.6	102.2	.342	1.2
1983	91	303	268	32	63	10	3	3	30	28	35	11	7	.235	.305	.328	.634	70.9	71.3	.298	0.0
1984	81	247	227	22	47	13	2	1	21	15	41	6	4	.207	.257	.295	.552	45.8	50.9	.259	-0.7
1985	90	287	249	31	70	13	2	5	31	32	31	6	5	.281	.363	.410	.772	123.1	118.0	.359	2.0
1986	118	298	257	31	66	12	0	5	26	32	45	3	5	.257	.336	.362	.697	96.1	94.7	.323	1.1
1987	73	225	196	26	52	13	0	7	27	23	32	4	2	.265	.342	.439	.781	105.3	104.8	.343	0.9
1988	68	111	102	8	18	3	0	0	1	6	16	0	0	.176	.222	.206	.428	10.6	20.8	.203	-0.8

Career totals

1,428

4,732

4,208

552

1,049

165

RBI

352

411

534

189

403rd-most career SB

.2493

OBP

.3155

SLG

.3327

OPS

.6482

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
1985-06-21	SF @ SD Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	4	0	7
1982-08-24	PHI @ ATL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	1	1	7
1985-09-08	PHI @ SD Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	1	0	7
1980-04-27	WSH @ ATL Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	0	0	0	6
1982-09-24	SD @ ATL Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	0	0	0	6

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.