MLB / Players

Joe Bitker

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb
BornFebruary 12, 1964 · Glendale, CA, USA
MLB debutJuly 31, 1990
Final gameJune 19, 1991
Seasons2 (1990–1991)

Oakland Athletics 1990; Texas Rangers 1990–1991

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
0.0
44.4

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
199060000000000000.3
19919000000000000-0.3

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
199060000008348012.02.251.0006.002.7270.2172.30.3
199190100001711816414.76.751.7059.825.91145.960.0-0.3

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

G
15
PA
0
AB
0
R
0
H
0
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
0
SB
0

Pitching

G (P)
15
GS
0
W
1
L
0
SV
0
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
27
SO (P)
24
BB allowed
12
ERA
4.725
WHIP
1.3875
K/9
8.10

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1990-09-06KC @ TEX Gameday000000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1990-09-29ATH @ TEX Gameday2.0000150
1991-06-16NYY @ TEX Gameday4.0000130
1991-05-29MIN @ TEX Gameday2.0444132
1991-06-08TEX @ NYY Gameday2.0233131
1990-07-31SEA @ ATH Gameday3.0100120

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.