Joe Altobelli
Cleveland Indians 1955; Cleveland Indians 1957; Minnesota Twins 1961
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 42 | 84 | 75 | 8 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 1 | .200 | .259 | .320 | .579 | 51.3 | 55.5 | .273 | -0.6 |
| 1957 | 83 | 97 | 87 | 9 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 2 | .207 | .253 | .287 | .540 | 42.7 | 48.6 | .251 | -0.9 |
| 1961 | 41 | 109 | 95 | 10 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .221 | .312 | .358 | .670 | 76.7 | 75.9 | .310 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-09-24 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1957-08-25 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1961-09-17 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1955-04-27 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1961-09-11 | LAA @ MIN Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
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.