MLB / Players

Joe Boley

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornJuly 19, 1896 · Mahanoy City, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 12, 1927

Final gameJune 29, 1932

Seasons6 (1927–1932)

Philadelphia Athletics 1927–1931; Cleveland Indians 1932; Philadelphia Athletics 1932

Percentile snapshot

1928 season — qualified batters

132

67.3

479

57.3

425

57.8

50.8

112

56.8

60.3

38.2

RBI

58.8

60.8

42.2

47.7

23.6

.264

23.1

OBP

.317

22.1

SLG

.325

19.6

OPS

.641

20.1

wRC+

68.1

17.6

OPS+

68.7

19.6

wOBA

.302

20.1

sWAR

0.3

25.6

of 200 qualified 1928 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.4

71.8

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1927	118	415	370	49	115	18	8	1	52	26	14	8	5	.311	.361	.411	.772	97.3	98.1	.360	1.7
1928	132	479	425	49	112	20	3	0	49	32	11	5	1	.264	.317	.325	.641	68.1	68.7	.302	0.3
1929	91	336	303	36	76	17	6	2	47	24	16	1	0	.251	.310	.366	.676	71.5	73.2	.312	0.3
1930	121	465	420	41	116	22	2	4	55	32	26	0	0	.276	.335	.367	.701	78.1	77.1	.323	0.8
1931	67	244	224	26	51	9	3	0	20	15	13	1	1	.228	.282	.295	.577	48.6	49.7	.273	-0.5
1932	11	40	38	2	8	2	0	0	4	1	4	0	1	.211	.231	.263	.494	21.1	26.7	.227	-0.2

Career totals

540

1,979

1,780

203

478

RBI

227

130

.2685

OBP

.3229

SLG

.3545

OPS

.6774

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
1929-05-14	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	1	2	0	2	0	8
1930-05-05	BAL @ ATH Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	0	8
1929-06-25	BOS @ ATH Gameday	5	1	2	0	1	1	1	0	7
1930-07-12	ATH @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	0	3	0	6
1927-07-05	ATH @ BOS Gameday	3	0	3	1	1	0	3	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1927-04-12	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-13	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-14	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-15	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-16	ATH @ MIN 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.