Joe Birmingham
Cleveland Naps 1906–1914
Percentile snapshot
1907 season — qualified batters
of 101 qualified 1907 batters (min 489 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 | 10 | 41 | 40 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | .275 | .293 | .375 | .668 | 104.4 | 109.5 | .317 | 0.1 |
| 1907 | 137 | 503 | 476 | 55 | 112 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 33 | 16 | 73 | 23 | 0 | .235 | .265 | .300 | .565 | 77.7 | 81.4 | .275 | 0.4 |
| 1908 | 122 | 446 | 413 | 32 | 88 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 38 | 19 | 63 | 15 | 0 | .213 | .253 | .257 | .510 | 64.2 | 66.5 | .251 | -0.1 |
| 1909 | 100 | 370 | 343 | 29 | 99 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 38 | 19 | 57 | 12 | 0 | .289 | .333 | .356 | .689 | 114.3 | 115.3 | .336 | 2.2 |
| 1910 | 104 | 406 | 367 | 41 | 84 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 23 | 42 | 18 | 0 | .229 | .284 | .270 | .553 | 70.7 | 71.9 | .276 | 0.2 |
| 1911 | 125 | 481 | 447 | 55 | 136 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 51 | 15 | 41 | 16 | 0 | .304 | .334 | .380 | .714 | 94.6 | 97.8 | .341 | 1.4 |
| 1912 | 107 | 415 | 369 | 49 | 94 | 19 | 3 | 1 | 45 | 26 | 34 | 15 | 9 | .255 | .311 | .331 | .641 | 81.0 | 81.8 | .313 | 0.5 |
| 1913 | 47 | 148 | 131 | 16 | 37 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 22 | 7 | 0 | .282 | .324 | .366 | .690 | 95.6 | 99.2 | .333 | 0.4 |
| 1914 | 19 | 50 | 47 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | .128 | .163 | .128 | .291 | -29.6 | -14.2 | .150 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1908-09-07 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1909-04-20 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1911-09-03 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1908-09-23 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1909-08-11 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906-04-17 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1906-04-18 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1906-04-19 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1906-04-21 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1906-04-22 | CLE @ CWS 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.