MLB / Players

Joe Charboneau

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 205 lb

BornJune 17, 1955 · Belvidere, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1980

Final gameJune 1, 1982

Seasons3 (1980–1982)

Cleveland Indians 1980–1982

Percentile snapshot

1980 season — qualified batters

131

12.1

512

2.4

453

52.4

131

14.5

5.6

14.5

82.3

RBI

78.2

43.5

41.1

10.5

62.1

.289

61.3

OBP

.358

63.7

SLG

.488

85.5

OPS

.846

87.1

wRC+

130.9

79.8

OPS+

128.6

wOBA

.379

83.1

sWAR

2.7

49.2

of 125 qualified 1980 batters (min 496 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.3

71.6

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
1980	131	512	453	76	131	17	2	23	87	49	70	2	4	.289	.358	.488	.846	130.9	128.6	.379	2.7
1981	48	147	138	14	29	7	1	4	18	7	22	1	0	.210	.247	.362	.609	69.9	74.4	.278	-0.3
1982	22	63	56	7	12	2	1	2	9	5	7	0	0	.214	.286	.393	.679	83.1	84.3	.304	0.0

Career totals

201

722

647

172

RBI

114

.2658

OBP

.3292

SLG

.4529

OPS

.7821

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
1980-07-23	CLE @ SEA Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	6	2	8
1981-05-13	CLE @ CWS Gameday	7	2	4	1	1	0	1	0	7
1980-04-19	TOR @ CLE Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	1	2	1	7
1982-05-12	CLE @ SEA Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	1	3	0	6
1980-06-22	CLE @ MIN Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	1	2	0	6

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

1× Rookie of the Year

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.