MLB / Players

Jerry Walker

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornFebruary 12, 1939 · Ada, OK, USA

MLB debutJuly 6, 1957

Final gameSeptember 25, 1964

Seasons8 (1957–1964)

Baltimore Orioles 1957–1960; Kansas City Athletics 1961–1962; Cleveland Indians 1963–1964

Percentile snapshot

1961 season — qualified pitchers

48.5

16.7

7.6

21.2

83.3

1.5

SHO

161

86.4

48.5

19.7

42.4

168.0

7.6

ERA

4.82

4.5

WHIP

1.530

K/9

3.00

1.5

FIP

5.51

FIP-

132.6

1.5

ERA+

86.2

6.1

sWAR

0.7

7.6

of 67 qualified 1961 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.4

77.8

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1957	13	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.8	-100.0	.000	0.4
1958	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.6	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1959	31	69	65	4	11	0	1	4	1	15	1	.169	.182	.215	.397	2.2	10.8	.182	3.4
1960	35	41	38	6	14	2	0	3	2	6	0	.368	.400	.421	.821	130.5	126.0	.378	1.7
1961	45	68	64	6	16	2	0	7	3	9	0	.250	.284	.281	.565	46.0	49.8	.263	0.7
1962	36	60	57	7	15	2	3	5	0	15	0	.263	.259	.456	.715	75.8	83.6	.307	-0.9
1963	39	21	19	1	2	0	0	2	1	5	0	.105	.190	.105	.296	-17.3	-13.9	.157	-0.6
1964	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-131.6	-100.0	.000	-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
1957	13	3	1	0	1	1	1	24	9	14	13	1	27.7	2.93	1.373	4.23	3.45	97.0	121.4	0.4
1958	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	8	5	6	2	10.3	6.97	2.032	5.23	5.25	147.9	51.0	-0.3
1959	30	22	11	10	4	7	2	160	59	52	100	13	182.0	2.92	1.165	4.95	3.20	85.7	128.0	3.4
1960	29	18	3	4	5	1	0	107	49	56	48	15	118.0	3.74	1.381	3.66	4.74	125.6	101.0	1.7
1961	36	24	8	14	2	4	0	161	90	96	56	23	168.0	4.82	1.530	3.00	5.51	132.6	86.2	0.7
1962	31	21	8	9	0	3	1	165	94	78	57	27	143.3	5.90	1.695	3.58	5.95	142.2	70.8	-0.9
1963	39	2	6	6	1	0	0	92	48	36	41	15	88.0	4.91	1.455	4.19	5.04	139.3	73.7	-0.6
1964	6	0	0	1	0	0	0	9	5	4	5	1	9.7	4.66	1.345	4.66	4.01	111.1	77.6	-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

211

268

252

RBI

.2302

OBP

.2529

SLG

.3016

OPS

.5545

Pitching

G (P)

190

SHO

747

SO (P)

326

BB allowed

341

ERA

4.361

WHIP

1.4391

K/9

3.93

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
1962-05-21	ATH @ BOS Gameday	4	3	2	0	1	2	5
1959-06-18	DET @ BAL Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	1	4
1962-04-20	ATH @ CWS Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4
1962-05-05	CLE @ ATH Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	1	4
1961-08-31	ATH @ LAA Gameday	5	2	2	1	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1959-07-02	NYY @ BAL Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	1	10	1
1959-05-24	NYY @ BAL Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	0	7	1
1960-05-31	NYY @ BAL Gameday	8.0	4	2	1	4	7	0
1959-06-26	BAL @ DET Gameday	7.0	5	1	1	1	7	0
1962-05-26	LAA @ ATH Gameday	6.2	8	6	6	3	7	2

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.