MLB / Players

Duane Josephson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb
BornJune 3, 1942 · New Hampton, IA, USA
MLB debutSeptember 15, 1965
Final gameJuly 2, 1972
Seasons8 (1965–1972)

Chicago White Sox 1965–1970; Boston Red Sox 1971–1972

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
6.8
82.6

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
196541192100002400.111.273.111.38433.918.2.2180.0
19661141383910033300.237.293.263.55669.967.9.2630.1
1967621991891145511962403.238.262.291.55363.867.5.2570.4
196812846543435107166645185224.247.284.353.63688.691.7.2942.2
196952179162193962120131700.241.296.321.61766.468.5.2910.3
1970963172852890121441242801.316.370.407.777112.8110.4.3572.3
19719133130638751411039223520.245.294.395.68983.889.1.3121.3
19722688821122411741102.268.310.378.688101.9100.1.3240.2

Career totals

G
470
PA
1,631
AB
1,505
R
147
H
388
2B
58
3B
12
HR
23
RBI
164
BB
92
SO
174
SB
4
BA
.2578
OBP
.3029
SLG
.3581
OPS
.6610

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1971-05-21BOS @ BAL Gameday523002409
1968-06-23BOS @ CWS Gameday413001306
1968-08-18CWS @ CLE Gameday413001206
1970-04-15CWS @ ATH Gameday413001106
1971-07-31BOS @ CWS Gameday412101406

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

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.