Joe Black
Baltimore Elite Giants 1943–1948; Brooklyn Dodgers 1952–1955; Cincinnati Redlegs 1955–1956; Washington Senators 1957
Percentile snapshot
1948 season — qualified pitchers
of 73 qualified 1948 pitchers (min 73 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -80.0 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1944 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | 11.7 | 7.4 | .188 | -0.3 |
| 1945 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -92.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1946 | 25 | 46 | 40 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .273 | .225 | .498 | 49.2 | 39.6 | .252 | 2.2 |
| 1947 | 23 | 50 | 47 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .277 | .320 | .277 | .597 | 67.7 | 64.0 | .292 | 1.7 |
| 1948 | 19 | 50 | 43 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .209 | .292 | .256 | .547 | 64.6 | 59.0 | .274 | 3.3 |
| 1952 | 57 | 42 | 36 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .139 | .139 | .139 | .278 | -43.8 | -22.7 | .128 | 4.0 |
| 1953 | 34 | 17 | 17 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .235 | .235 | .235 | .471 | 11.5 | 22.5 | .212 | 0.0 |
| 1954 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
| 1955 | 38 | 37 | 33 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .121 | .147 | .121 | .268 | -42.7 | -28.9 | .129 | 1.1 |
| 1956 | 34 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -133.4 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 1957 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 3.0 | 6.00 | 3.333 | 15.00 | 2.79 | 58.1 | 80.1 | 0.0 |
| 1944 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 12.7 | 7.82 | 1.895 | 2.13 | 5.00 | 115.9 | 55.2 | -0.3 |
| 1945 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 7.0 | 5.14 | 1.286 | 6.43 | 4.01 | 97.2 | 80.2 | 0.0 |
| 1946 | 24 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 114 | 53 | 50 | 69 | 3 | 126.0 | 3.79 | 1.302 | 4.93 | 4.19 | 94.9 | 116.6 | 2.2 |
| 1947 | 22 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 138 | 58 | 58 | 65 | 4 | 130.0 | 4.02 | 1.508 | 4.50 | 4.33 | 104.6 | 103.1 | 1.7 |
| 1948 | 17 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 82 | 25 | 36 | 85 | 3 | 113.3 | 1.99 | 1.041 | 6.75 | 2.98 | 83.9 | 178.7 | 3.3 |
| 1952 | 56 | 2 | 15 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 102 | 34 | 41 | 85 | 9 | 142.3 | 2.15 | 1.005 | 5.37 | 2.93 | 78.7 | 173.3 | 4.0 |
| 1953 | 34 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 43 | 27 | 42 | 12 | 72.7 | 5.33 | 1.390 | 5.20 | 4.76 | 109.9 | 81.3 | 0.0 |
| 1954 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7.0 | 11.57 | 2.286 | 3.86 | 9.27 | 223.2 | 35.9 | -0.5 |
| 1955 | 38 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 121 | 53 | 30 | 63 | 14 | 117.7 | 4.05 | 1.283 | 4.82 | 3.55 | 84.4 | 103.7 | 1.1 |
| 1956 | 32 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 31 | 25 | 27 | 11 | 61.7 | 4.52 | 1.395 | 3.94 | 4.89 | 123.4 | 87.6 | 0.1 |
| 1957 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 12.7 | 7.11 | 1.816 | 1.42 | 6.43 | 166.3 | 54.4 | -0.4 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-06-25 | PHS @ BEG Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1953-08-29 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1947-06-20 | NYC @ BEG Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1947-08-10 | NYC @ BEG Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1947-08-24 | CAG @ BEG Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-06-07 | NE @ BEG Gameday | 9.1 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| 1948-05-06 | BEG @ NYC Gameday | 7.2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| 1948-07-02 | PHS @ BEG Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 1948-05-18 | HOM @ BEG Gameday | 8.2 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
| 1947-05-13 | PHS @ BEG Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 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.