MLB / Players

Joe Beggs

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 182 lb

BornNovember 4, 1910 · Rankin, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1938

Final gameApril 24, 1948

Seasons9 (1938–1948)

New York Yankees 1938; Cincinnati Reds 1940–1944; Cincinnati Reds 1946–1947; New York Giants 1947–1948

Percentile snapshot

1946 season — qualified pitchers

37.7

44.2

42.9

68.8

SHO

49.4

175

45.5

70.1

66.2

15.6

6.5

190.0

57.1

ERA

2.32

89.6

WHIP

1.126

92.2

K/9

1.80

FIP

3.58

54.5

FIP-

108.6

15.6

ERA+

141.9

80.5

sWAR

4.4

83.1

of 78 qualified 1946 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

12.0

88.8

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1938	14	21	20	2	5	1	2	1	3	.250	.286	.300	.586	47.3	49.6	.274	0.2
1940	37	22	21	1	4	0	0	0	5	.190	.190	.190	.381	-6.8	6.2	.176	2.3
1941	37	11	10	1	3	0	1	1	2	.300	.364	.300	.664	93.5	90.0	.324	0.5
1942	38	22	21	1	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.8	-100.0	.000	1.8
1943	39	39	35	4	5	0	4	2	10	.143	.189	.143	.332	-13.9	-2.2	.169	2.4
1944	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.9	-100.0	.000	0.2
1946	28	74	63	4	14	2	2	4	17	.222	.269	.254	.523	43.9	51.3	.255	4.4
1947	43	27	24	1	2	0	2	0	7	.083	.083	.083	.167	-78.9	-55.7	.077	0.3
1948	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1938	14	9	3	2	0	4	0	69	35	20	8	7	58.3	5.40	1.526	1.23	5.43	117.5	85.6	0.2
1940	37	1	12	3	7	0	0	68	17	21	25	1	76.7	2.00	1.161	2.93	3.13	82.6	189.6	2.3
1941	37	0	4	3	5	0	0	57	24	27	19	2	57.0	3.79	1.474	3.00	3.78	105.8	94.2	0.5
1942	38	0	6	5	8	0	0	65	21	33	24	4	88.7	2.13	1.105	2.44	3.48	106.8	152.9	1.8
1943	39	4	7	6	6	4	2	121	30	25	28	0	115.3	2.34	1.266	2.18	2.64	80.5	140.0	2.4
1944	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	8	2	0	2	0	9.0	2.00	.889	2.00	2.09	60.5	172.5	0.2
1946	28	22	12	10	1	14	2	175	49	39	38	15	190.0	2.32	1.126	1.80	3.58	108.6	141.9	4.4
1947	43	4	3	6	2	0	0	123	50	24	34	10	98.3	4.58	1.495	3.11	3.96	96.6	89.6	0.3
1948	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0.3	0.00	6.000	0.00	2.57	64.2	—	0.0

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

238

220

198

RBI

.1667

OBP

.1990

SLG

.1818

OPS

.3808

Pitching

G (P)

238

SHO

694

SO (P)

178

BB allowed

189

ERA

2.958

WHIP

1.2643

K/9

2.31

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	TB
1946-06-23	CIN @ PHI Gameday	5	0	3	0	3
1946-04-21	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	0	2	1	3
1938-04-25	NYY @ ATH Gameday	3	1	2	0	2
1946-04-27	PIT @ CIN Gameday	3	1	2	0	2
1946-09-13	CIN @ SF Gameday	4	1	2	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1941-08-18	CIN @ PHI Gameday	7.2	5	1	1	0	7	0
1940-04-26	CIN @ CHC Gameday	7.0	6	1	1	2	5	0
1947-09-17	SF @ CHC Gameday	5.2	3	0	0	1	5	0
1946-06-23	CIN @ PHI Gameday	11.0	7	5	3	1	4	2
1946-09-22	CIN @ PIT Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	1	4	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.