Joe Bowman
Philadelphia Athletics 1932; New York Giants 1934; Philadelphia Phillies 1935–1936; Pittsburgh Pirates 1937–1941; Boston Red Sox 1944–1945; Cincinnati Reds 1945
Percentile snapshot
1945 season — qualified pitchers
of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 157 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 438.0 | 416.4 | .920 | -0.3 |
| 1934 | 31 | 32 | 29 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .172 | .226 | .241 | .467 | 25.2 | 27.9 | .220 | 1.4 |
| 1935 | 49 | 72 | 67 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .194 | .239 | .284 | .523 | 25.2 | 32.8 | .241 | 2.0 |
| 1936 | 44 | 84 | 77 | 9 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .195 | .253 | .208 | .461 | 12.2 | 18.7 | .226 | 0.7 |
| 1937 | 35 | 55 | 47 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .213 | .288 | .234 | .523 | 45.9 | 44.2 | .257 | 0.4 |
| 1938 | 18 | 24 | 21 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .364 | .429 | .792 | 116.7 | 117.1 | .363 | 0.2 |
| 1939 | 70 | 106 | 96 | 9 | 33 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .344 | .382 | .448 | .830 | 124.2 | 123.5 | .381 | 1.8 |
| 1940 | 57 | 105 | 90 | 11 | 22 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .244 | .352 | .356 | .708 | 100.3 | 95.9 | .337 | 1.5 |
| 1941 | 22 | 32 | 31 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .258 | .281 | .290 | .572 | 55.1 | 61.1 | .270 | 1.4 |
| 1944 | 59 | 105 | 100 | 7 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 19 | 1 | 0 | .200 | .238 | .290 | .528 | 42.0 | 50.9 | .250 | -1.6 |
| 1945 | 38 | 85 | 80 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 0 | .088 | .120 | .138 | .258 | -39.5 | -26.8 | .126 | 0.9 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 11.0 | 8.18 | 1.818 | 3.27 | 7.22 | 159.1 | 55.4 | -0.3 |
| 1934 | 30 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 119 | 43 | 36 | 36 | 9 | 107.3 | 3.61 | 1.444 | 3.02 | 4.57 | 117.4 | 107.9 | 1.4 |
| 1935 | 33 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 157 | 70 | 56 | 58 | 13 | 148.3 | 4.25 | 1.436 | 3.52 | 4.59 | 102.8 | 105.2 | 2.0 |
| 1936 | 40 | 28 | 9 | 20 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 243 | 114 | 53 | 80 | 14 | 203.7 | 5.04 | 1.453 | 3.54 | 4.03 | 90.0 | 88.9 | 0.7 |
| 1937 | 30 | 19 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 161 | 65 | 35 | 38 | 11 | 128.0 | 4.57 | 1.531 | 2.67 | 4.32 | 111.6 | 84.7 | 0.4 |
| 1938 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 31 | 20 | 25 | 2 | 60.0 | 4.65 | 1.467 | 3.75 | 3.34 | 88.0 | 81.6 | 0.2 |
| 1939 | 37 | 27 | 10 | 14 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 217 | 92 | 43 | 58 | 15 | 184.7 | 4.48 | 1.408 | 2.83 | 4.05 | 104.4 | 86.5 | 1.8 |
| 1940 | 32 | 24 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 209 | 93 | 66 | 57 | 10 | 187.7 | 4.46 | 1.465 | 2.73 | 4.00 | 104.1 | 86.1 | 1.5 |
| 1941 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 77 | 23 | 28 | 22 | 3 | 69.3 | 2.99 | 1.514 | 2.86 | 3.75 | 103.1 | 121.8 | 1.4 |
| 1944 | 26 | 24 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 175 | 90 | 64 | 53 | 14 | 168.3 | 4.81 | 1.420 | 2.83 | 4.18 | 122.4 | 70.9 | -1.6 |
| 1945 | 28 | 27 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 216 | 86 | 77 | 71 | 9 | 197.3 | 3.92 | 1.485 | 3.24 | 3.77 | 103.3 | 93.4 | 0.9 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935-06-23 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1939-05-16 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1939-09-06 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1940-04-26 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1936-04-20 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936-07-12 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 8.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 1936-09-12 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| 1944-06-17 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| 1936-06-23 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 8.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1939-06-06 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 8.0 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
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.