Joe Astroth
Philadelphia Athletics 1945–1946; Philadelphia Athletics 1949–1954; Kansas City Athletics 1955–1956
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 10 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .059 | .111 | .059 | .170 | -69.6 | -50.2 | .095 | -0.2 |
| 1946 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -45.4 | -20.0 | .133 | -0.1 |
| 1949 | 55 | 170 | 148 | 18 | 36 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 21 | 13 | 1 | 0 | .243 | .337 | .284 | .621 | 69.3 | 67.1 | .311 | 0.3 |
| 1950 | 39 | 128 | 110 | 11 | 36 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .327 | .422 | .400 | .822 | 117.7 | 112.3 | .393 | 1.0 |
| 1951 | 64 | 205 | 187 | 30 | 46 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 18 | 13 | 0 | 1 | .246 | .312 | .353 | .665 | 74.8 | 77.6 | .314 | 0.5 |
| 1952 | 104 | 370 | 337 | 24 | 84 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 36 | 25 | 27 | 2 | 2 | .249 | .305 | .291 | .596 | 56.5 | 61.2 | .287 | 0.2 |
| 1953 | 82 | 289 | 260 | 28 | 77 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 27 | 12 | 1 | 0 | .296 | .367 | .404 | .771 | 103.8 | 102.5 | .359 | 1.8 |
| 1954 | 77 | 252 | 226 | 22 | 50 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 21 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .221 | .296 | .279 | .575 | 52.7 | 55.8 | .279 | 0.0 |
| 1955 | 101 | 338 | 274 | 29 | 69 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 23 | 47 | 33 | 2 | 3 | .252 | .372 | .328 | .700 | 90.4 | 87.0 | .337 | 1.6 |
| 1956 | 8 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .077 | .077 | .077 | .154 | -83.9 | -59.7 | .072 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-06-13 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1950-09-23 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 1954-09-05 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1952-06-08 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1950-05-28 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-04-17 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1945-04-18 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1945-04-19 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1945-04-20 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1945-04-21 | ATH @ BOS 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.