Joey Jay

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 228 lb

BornAugust 15, 1935 · Middletown, CT, USA

MLB debutJuly 21, 1953

Final gameOctober 2, 1966

Seasons13 (1953–1966)

Milwaukee Braves 1953–1955; Milwaukee Braves 1957–1960; Cincinnati Reds 1961–1965; Atlanta Braves 1966; Cincinnati Reds 1966

Percentile snapshot

1964 season — qualified pitchers

26.9

28.4

49.3

82.1

55.2

SHO

167

85.1

70.1

95.5

134

49.3

62.7

183.0

22.4

ERA

3.39

50.7

WHIP

1.109

77.6

K/9

6.59

65.7

FIP

3.13

67.2

FIP-

86.3

68.7

ERA+

106.9

52.2

sWAR

2.0

41.8

of 68 qualified 1964 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.4

35.7

sWAR

13.4

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1953	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.3	-100.0	.000	0.5
1954	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1955	12	3	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	.667	.667	.667	1.333	284.9	267.9	.605	0.1
1957	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1958	18	37	32	0	3	0	0	0	4	16	.094	.194	.094	.288	-14.6	-16.4	.158	2.5
1959	34	38	35	0	3	0	0	0	2	15	.086	.135	.086	.221	-41.5	-36.6	.114	0.5
1960	32	52	45	2	7	0	0	1	3	23	.156	.204	.156	.360	1.6	4.3	.176	1.7
1961	34	93	89	3	8	3	0	5	2	29	.090	.110	.124	.233	-50.6	-38.1	.109	3.4
1962	39	107	90	7	15	0	2	9	10	36	.167	.250	.233	.483	30.8	30.0	.235	3.8
1963	30	54	50	0	8	1	0	0	2	22	.160	.192	.180	.372	-2.5	7.6	.177	-0.3
1964	34	60	53	0	3	1	0	2	1	23	.057	.091	.075	.166	-68.7	-53.0	.084	2.0
1965	37	55	49	3	2	1	0	0	2	24	.041	.078	.061	.140	-80.4	-61.0	.073	0.3
1966	21	38	34	2	4	1	0	2	2	16	.118	.167	.147	.314	-25.5	-14.5	.153	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1953	3	1	1	0	0	1	1	6	0	5	4	0	10.0	0.00	1.100	3.60	3.32	83.0	—	0.5
1954	15	1	1	0	0	0	0	21	13	16	13	2	18.0	6.50	2.056	6.50	5.25	139.3	58.0	-0.4
1955	12	1	0	0	0	0	0	23	10	13	3	2	19.0	4.74	1.895	1.42	5.41	142.5	80.2	0.1
1957	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	0.00	.000	0.00	2.51	70.4	—	0.0
1958	18	12	7	5	0	6	3	60	23	43	74	8	96.7	2.14	1.066	6.89	3.42	94.7	168.4	2.5
1959	34	19	6	11	0	4	1	130	62	64	88	11	136.3	4.09	1.423	5.81	3.90	107.7	88.4	0.5
1960	32	11	9	8	1	3	0	128	48	59	90	10	133.3	3.24	1.403	6.08	3.74	106.9	107.9	1.7
1961	34	34	21	10	0	14	4	217	97	92	157	25	247.3	3.53	1.249	5.71	3.89	95.9	114.9	3.4
1962	39	37	21	14	0	16	4	269	114	100	155	26	273.0	3.76	1.352	5.11	3.97	99.0	106.6	3.8
1963	30	22	7	18	1	4	1	172	81	73	116	19	170.0	4.29	1.441	6.14	3.93	117.9	77.7	-0.3
1964	34	23	11	11	2	10	0	167	69	36	134	17	183.0	3.39	1.109	6.59	3.13	86.3	106.9	2.0
1965	37	24	9	8	1	4	1	150	73	63	102	21	155.7	4.22	1.368	5.90	4.37	116.9	88.6	0.3
1966	21	18	6	6	1	1	1	117	58	43	63	12	103.3	5.05	1.548	5.49	4.33	113.8	75.5	-0.6

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

310

540

483

RBI

206

.1139

OBP

.1637

SLG

.1408

OPS

.3045

Pitching

G (P)

310

203

SHO

354th-most career SHO

1,546

SO (P)

999

BB allowed

607

ERA

3.772

WHIP

1.3367

K/9

5.81

414th-highest career K/9

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
1962-05-28	HOU @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	4	6
1962-05-01	CIN @ NYM Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	3	4
1962-06-14	SF @ CIN Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	2
1960-09-02	ATL @ CIN Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	0	2
1961-07-09	CIN @ LAD Gameday	5	0	1	1	0	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1964-08-11	LAD @ CIN Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	3	13	0
1964-09-04	ATL @ CIN Gameday	8.0	5	2	2	1	12	1
1966-05-20	STL @ CIN Gameday	7.2	7	3	3	1	12	0
1964-07-05	STL @ CIN Gameday	9.0	6	3	3	1	10	0
1963-07-10	CHC @ CIN Gameday	8.1	7	1	0	1	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

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.