Joe Adcock

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 210 lb

BornOctober 30, 1927 · Coushatta, LA, USA

MLB debutApril 23, 1950

Final gameOctober 1, 1966

Seasons17 (1950–1966)

Cincinnati Reds 1950–1952; Milwaukee Braves 1953–1962; Cleveland Indians 1963; Los Angeles Angels 1964; California Angels 1965–1966

Percentile snapshot

1961 season — qualified batters

152

61.9

629

58.3

562

61.9

46.4

160

66.7

26.2

88.1

RBI

108

86.9

53.6

14.3

79.8

.285

61.9

OBP

.354

SLG

.507

77.4

OPS

.861

76.2

wRC+

132.7

77.4

OPS+

132.5

78.6

wOBA

.378

71.4

sWAR

3.4

65.5

of 85 qualified 1961 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

122.7

OPS+

124.9

85.6

sWAR

30.3

96.6

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1950	102	399	372	46	109	16	1	8	55	24	24	2	0	.293	.336	.406	.742	91.5	93.6	.334	0.3
1951	113	422	395	40	96	16	4	10	47	24	29	1	2	.243	.288	.380	.668	71.5	76.8	.302	-0.7
1952	117	403	378	43	105	22	4	13	52	23	38	1	4	.278	.321	.460	.781	111.1	114.0	.351	1.3
1953	157	640	590	71	168	33	6	18	80	42	82	3	2	.285	.334	.453	.787	107.7	109.9	.347	1.4
1954	133	562	500	73	154	27	5	23	87	44	58	1	4	.308	.365	.520	.885	136.4	137.4	.388	3.2
1955	84	324	288	40	76	14	0	15	45	31	44	0	2	.264	.339	.469	.807	118.4	118.8	.355	1.2
1956	137	500	454	76	132	23	1	38	103	32	86	1	0	.291	.337	.597	.934	152.2	153.5	.397	3.7
1957	65	231	209	31	60	13	2	12	38	20	51	0	0	.287	.351	.541	.891	143.8	145.7	.384	1.5
1958	105	349	320	40	88	15	1	19	54	21	63	0	0	.275	.317	.506	.823	121.5	124.1	.356	1.4
1959	115	444	404	53	118	19	2	25	76	32	77	0	0	.292	.339	.535	.874	134.6	139.0	.375	2.5
1960	138	570	514	55	153	21	4	25	91	46	86	2	2	.298	.354	.500	.854	138.9	140.1	.375	3.4
1961	152	629	562	77	160	20	0	35	108	59	94	2	1	.285	.354	.507	.861	132.7	132.5	.378	3.4
1962	121	447	391	48	97	12	1	29	78	50	91	2	0	.248	.333	.506	.839	121.3	126.0	.365	1.7
1963	97	317	283	28	71	7	1	13	49	30	53	1	2	.251	.320	.420	.740	104.5	106.5	.327	0.5
1964	118	415	366	39	98	13	0	21	64	48	61	0	2	.268	.352	.475	.827	137.6	136.6	.367	2.4
1965	122	387	349	30	84	14	0	14	47	37	74	2	2	.241	.315	.401	.716	108.5	107.8	.326	0.8
1966	83	265	231	33	63	10	3	18	48	31	48	2	2	.273	.355	.576	.930	163.3	166.4	.399	2.2

Career totals

1,959

292nd-most career G

7,304

400th-most career PA

6,606

380th-most career AB

823

1,832

388th-most career H

295

336

117th-most career HR

RBI

1,122

212th-most career RBI

594

1,059

347th-most career SO

.2773

OBP

.3369

SLG

.4852

193rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8221

335th-highest career OPS

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
1954-07-31	ATL @ LAD Gameday	5	5	5	1	0	4	7	0	18
1956-07-19	SF @ ATL Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	2	8	0	11
1956-05-31	ATL @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	5	1	10
1959-08-11	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	1	4	2	0	1	2	0	9
1951-07-17	CIN @ PHI Gameday	4	4	4	0	1	1	1	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
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
1953-05-10	CHC @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1953-05-10	CHC @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1953-05-30	ATL @ STL 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

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.