Ray Jablonski
St. Louis Cardinals 1953–1954; Cincinnati Redlegs 1955–1956; New York Giants 1957; San Francisco Giants 1958; Kansas City Athletics 1959; St. Louis Cardinals 1959; Kansas City Athletics 1960
Percentile snapshot
1954 season — qualified batters
of 82 qualified 1954 batters (min 477 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 157 | 640 | 604 | 64 | 162 | 23 | 5 | 21 | 112 | 34 | 61 | 2 | 2 | .268 | .308 | .427 | .735 | 85.5 | 89.0 | .324 | 1.2 |
| 1954 | 152 | 674 | 611 | 80 | 181 | 33 | 3 | 12 | 104 | 49 | 42 | 9 | 4 | .296 | .345 | .419 | .764 | 95.7 | 97.3 | .341 | 2.1 |
| 1955 | 74 | 239 | 221 | 28 | 53 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 28 | 13 | 35 | 0 | 1 | .240 | .289 | .403 | .691 | 74.9 | 77.7 | .305 | -0.1 |
| 1956 | 130 | 458 | 407 | 42 | 104 | 25 | 1 | 15 | 66 | 37 | 57 | 2 | 4 | .256 | .324 | .432 | .756 | 94.9 | 96.6 | .331 | 1.5 |
| 1957 | 107 | 344 | 305 | 37 | 88 | 15 | 1 | 9 | 57 | 31 | 47 | 0 | 2 | .289 | .346 | .433 | .779 | 108.2 | 108.3 | .344 | 1.5 |
| 1958 | 82 | 251 | 230 | 28 | 53 | 15 | 1 | 12 | 46 | 17 | 50 | 2 | 0 | .230 | .287 | .461 | .748 | 91.5 | 95.5 | .324 | 0.7 |
| 1959 | 85 | 164 | 152 | 15 | 39 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 22 | 11 | 30 | 1 | 0 | .257 | .305 | .388 | .693 | 81.5 | 82.1 | .313 | 0.2 |
| 1960 | 21 | 37 | 32 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .219 | .297 | .250 | .547 | 48.6 | 48.3 | .265 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956-05-18 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1958-07-05 | STL @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1957-07-29 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1953-05-06 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 1955-04-16 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-04-16 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-04-19 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-04-20 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-04-26 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-05-03 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.