MLB / Players

Joe Christopher

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornDecember 13, 1935 · Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

MLB debutMay 26, 1959

Final gameJune 9, 1966

Seasons8 (1959–1966)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1959–1961; New York Mets 1962–1965; Boston Red Sox 1966

Percentile snapshot

1964 season — qualified batters

154

56.4

604

43.6

543

46.8

58.5

163

69.1

63.8

85.1

51.1

RBI

61.7

52.1

29.8

57.4

23.4

.300

78.7

OBP

.360

70.2

SLG

.466

71.3

OPS

.826

72.3

wRC+

132.7

76.6

OPS+

130.5

75.5

wOBA

.369

70.2

sWAR

3.8

61.7

of 95 qualified 1964 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.3

74.9

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
1959	15	14	12	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	.000	.077	.000	.077	-86.1	-76.9	.057	-0.3
1960	50	61	56	21	13	2	0	1	3	5	8	1	0	.232	.295	.321	.617	71.5	69.7	.287	-0.1
1961	76	206	186	25	49	7	3	0	14	18	24	6	4	.263	.327	.333	.660	80.8	77.3	.306	-0.1
1962	119	314	271	36	66	10	2	6	32	35	42	11	3	.244	.338	.362	.699	89.1	84.6	.327	0.4
1963	64	168	149	19	33	5	1	1	8	13	21	1	3	.221	.295	.289	.584	69.5	67.4	.277	-0.3
1964	154	604	543	78	163	26	8	16	76	48	92	6	5	.300	.360	.466	.826	132.7	130.5	.369	3.8
1965	148	486	437	38	109	18	3	5	40	35	82	4	4	.249	.311	.339	.650	85.4	84.7	.299	0.1
1966	12	15	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	0	.077	.200	.077	.277	-23.6	-20.3	.159	-0.2

Career totals

638

1,868

1,667

224

434

RBI

173

157

277

.2603

OBP

.3287

SLG

.3737

OPS

.7024

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
1964-08-18	PIT @ NYM Gameday	5	2	4	1	2	1	3	0	12
1964-06-12	NYM @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	1	3	0	8
1964-06-20	PHI @ NYM Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	1	8
1964-05-31	SF @ NYM Gameday	10	2	4	0	0	1	3	0	7
1964-08-28	NYM @ CHC Gameday	6	2	4	0	0	1	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1959-07-09	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1959-08-14	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1959-08-16	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1959-08-16	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1959-09-22	ATL @ PIT 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.