Joe Coleman
Philadelphia Athletics 1942; Philadelphia Athletics 1946–1951; Philadelphia Athletics 1953; Baltimore Orioles 1954–1955; Detroit Tigers 1955
Percentile snapshot
1954 season — qualified pitchers
of 57 qualified 1954 pitchers (min 154 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -130.2 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 1946 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .400 | .400 | .800 | 124.9 | 123.9 | .373 | -0.1 |
| 1947 | 32 | 55 | 48 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 25 | 0 | 0 | .146 | .212 | .188 | .399 | -0.1 | 10.5 | .200 | 0.4 |
| 1948 | 33 | 85 | 74 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 29 | 0 | 0 | .122 | .177 | .149 | .326 | -22.9 | -12.7 | .166 | 2.2 |
| 1949 | 33 | 91 | 79 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 29 | 0 | 0 | .177 | .226 | .253 | .479 | 17.9 | 28.2 | .231 | 3.1 |
| 1950 | 15 | 19 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .059 | .158 | .235 | .393 | -9.1 | 0.1 | .188 | -1.8 |
| 1951 | 28 | 30 | 27 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .259 | .310 | .370 | .681 | 77.3 | 81.5 | .317 | -0.8 |
| 1953 | 21 | 29 | 28 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .310 | .357 | .667 | 69.1 | 75.1 | .308 | 1.3 |
| 1954 | 33 | 81 | 74 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 22 | 1 | 0 | .176 | .208 | .297 | .505 | 25.2 | 38.7 | .232 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 23 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .714 | .714 | .857 | 1.571 | 354.3 | 330.7 | .724 | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 3.00 | 1.500 | 0.00 | 3.05 | 81.8 | 124.2 | 0.1 |
| 1946 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 13.0 | 5.54 | 2.077 | 5.54 | 4.06 | 116.0 | 63.2 | -0.1 |
| 1947 | 32 | 21 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 171 | 77 | 62 | 65 | 17 | 160.3 | 4.32 | 1.453 | 3.65 | 4.15 | 110.1 | 87.3 | 0.4 |
| 1948 | 33 | 29 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 224 | 98 | 90 | 86 | 11 | 215.7 | 4.09 | 1.456 | 3.59 | 3.88 | 90.7 | 104.6 | 2.2 |
| 1949 | 33 | 30 | 13 | 14 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 249 | 103 | 127 | 109 | 12 | 240.3 | 3.86 | 1.564 | 4.08 | 3.86 | 94.0 | 106.4 | 3.1 |
| 1950 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 74 | 51 | 50 | 12 | 9 | 54.0 | 8.50 | 2.296 | 2.00 | 7.21 | 159.2 | 53.3 | -1.8 |
| 1951 | 28 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 117 | 64 | 59 | 34 | 12 | 96.3 | 5.98 | 1.827 | 3.18 | 5.42 | 128.7 | 70.5 | -0.8 |
| 1953 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 85 | 40 | 49 | 18 | 8 | 90.0 | 4.00 | 1.489 | 1.80 | 4.99 | 118.4 | 105.3 | 1.3 |
| 1954 | 33 | 32 | 13 | 17 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 184 | 86 | 96 | 103 | 16 | 221.3 | 3.50 | 1.265 | 4.19 | 3.73 | 101.8 | 104.8 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 23 | 24 | 9 | 6 | 37.0 | 5.59 | 1.757 | 2.19 | 6.16 | 161.8 | 68.5 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-08-23 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1951-08-21 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1954-06-15 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1950-08-16 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1954-05-25 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-05-20 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 10.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 0 |
| 1947-08-10 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
| 1947-05-30 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 1948-05-09 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 1949-06-17 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 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.
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.