Joe Azcue
Cincinnati Reds 1960; Kansas City Athletics 1962; Cleveland Indians 1963; Kansas City Athletics 1963; Cleveland Indians 1964–1968; Boston Red Sox 1969; California Angels 1969; Cleveland Indians 1969; California Angels 1970; California Angels 1972; Milwaukee Brewers 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 14 | 33 | 31 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 1 | .097 | .152 | .097 | .248 | -40.2 | -30.5 | .128 | -0.3 |
| 1962 | 72 | 248 | 223 | 18 | 51 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 17 | 27 | 1 | 0 | .229 | .287 | .305 | .592 | 44.1 | 56.1 | .261 | -0.3 |
| 1963 | 96 | 343 | 324 | 26 | 91 | 16 | 0 | 14 | 46 | 15 | 47 | 1 | 1 | .281 | .310 | .460 | .770 | 112.2 | 113.5 | .338 | 2.5 |
| 1964 | 83 | 294 | 271 | 20 | 74 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 34 | 16 | 38 | 0 | 2 | .273 | .314 | .358 | .672 | 84.8 | 87.4 | .302 | 1.1 |
| 1965 | 111 | 371 | 335 | 16 | 77 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 35 | 27 | 54 | 2 | 1 | .230 | .290 | .269 | .559 | 52.8 | 60.0 | .255 | 0.1 |
| 1966 | 98 | 330 | 302 | 22 | 83 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 37 | 20 | 22 | 0 | 2 | .275 | .319 | .404 | .723 | 103.6 | 107.4 | .319 | 2.2 |
| 1967 | 86 | 324 | 295 | 33 | 74 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 34 | 22 | 35 | 0 | 3 | .251 | .307 | .437 | .744 | 118.9 | 117.9 | .338 | 2.7 |
| 1968 | 115 | 389 | 357 | 23 | 100 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 42 | 28 | 33 | 1 | 1 | .280 | .331 | .342 | .672 | 105.4 | 105.9 | .313 | 2.6 |
| 1969 | 106 | 365 | 323 | 23 | 72 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 23 | 35 | 36 | 0 | 1 | .223 | .299 | .266 | .566 | 52.8 | 61.9 | .260 | 0.1 |
| 1970 | 114 | 381 | 351 | 19 | 85 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 24 | 40 | 0 | 0 | .242 | .292 | .302 | .594 | 63.6 | 67.7 | .275 | 0.6 |
| 1972 | 14 | 17 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .176 | .125 | .301 | -49.7 | -8.7 | .118 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963-08-18 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 1970-06-26 | LAA @ KC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1963-06-20 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1963-09-24 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1964-08-14 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962-05-26 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-05-27 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-06-19 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-06-20 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-06-21 | LAA @ ATH 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.