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Joey Jay played 13 major-league seasons (1953-1966) as a P (310). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 11 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 18 | ML1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| 1955 | 20 | ML1 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .667 | 1.333 | 266 |
| 1958 | 23 | ML1 | 18 | 32 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 16 | .094 | .288 | -18 |
| 1959 | 24 | ML1 | 34 | 35 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15 | .086 | .221 | -37 |
| 1960 | 25 | ML1 | 32 | 45 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 23 | .156 | .360 | 4 |
| 1961 | 26 | CIN | 34 | 89 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 29 | .090 | .233 | -36 |
| 1962 | 27 | CIN | 39 | 90 | 7 | 15 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 10 | 36 | .167 | .483 | 35 |
| 1963 | 28 | CIN | 30 | 50 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22 | .160 | .372 | 12 |
| 1964 | 29 | CIN | 34 | 53 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 23 | .057 | .166 | -51 |
| 1965 | 30 | CIN | 37 | 49 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 24 | .041 | .140 | -59 |
| 1966 | 31 | CIN|ATL | 21 | 34 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 16 | .118 | .314 | -9 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 18 | ML1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 0.00 | — |
| 1954 | 19 | ML1 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 13 | 16 | 6.50 | 63 |
| 1955 | 20 | ML1 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 13 | 4.74 | 85 |
| 1957 | 22 | ML1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| 1958 | 23 | ML1 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 96.2 | 74 | 43 | 2.14 | 185 |
| 1959 | 24 | ML1 | 34 | 19 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 136.1 | 88 | 64 | 4.09 | 96 |
| 1960 | 25 | ML1 | 32 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 133.1 | 90 | 59 | 3.24 | 116 |
| 1961 | 26 | CIN | 34 | 34 | 21 | 10 | 0 | 247.1 | 157 | 92 | 3.53 | 114 |
| 1962 | 27 | CIN | 39 | 37 | 21 | 14 | 0 | 273 | 155 | 100 | 3.76 | 105 |
| 1963 | 28 | CIN | 30 | 22 | 7 | 18 | 1 | 170 | 116 | 73 | 4.29 | 77 |
| 1964 | 29 | CIN | 34 | 23 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 183 | 134 | 36 | 3.39 | 104 |
| 1965 | 30 | CIN | 37 | 24 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 155.2 | 102 | 63 | 4.22 | 84 |
| 1966 | 31 | CIN|ATL | 21 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 103.1 | 63 | 43 | 5.05 | 71 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | P | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954 | P | 15 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955 | P | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1957 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958 | P | 18 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| 1959 | P | 34 | 19 | 13 | 28 | 2 | 3 |
| 1960 | P | 32 | 11 | 13 | 18 | 1 | 1 |
| 1961 | P | 34 | 34 | 23 | 32 | 2 | 2 |
| 1962 | P | 39 | 37 | 14 | 39 | 1 | 3 |
| 1963 | P | 30 | 22 | 14 | 24 | 3 | 3 |
| 1964 | P | 34 | 23 | 6 | 24 | 1 | 1 |
| 1965 | P | 37 | 24 | 9 | 26 | 1 | 1 |
| 1966 | P | 21 | 18 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 0 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
Joey Jay won: TSN All-Star 1961 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (1 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1961.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 5 | 74 / 224 | 1 |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.