Joe Coleman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 175 lb

BornFebruary 3, 1947 · Boston, MA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 28, 1965

Final gameSeptember 24, 1979

Seasons15 (1965–1979)

Washington Senators 1965–1970; Detroit Tigers 1971–1975; Chicago Cubs 1976; Detroit Tigers 1976; Oakland Athletics 1977–1978; Toronto Blue Jays 1978; Pittsburgh Pirates 1979; San Francisco Giants 1979

Percentile snapshot

1975 season — qualified pitchers

6.1

31.7

17.1

1.2

20.7

SHO

17.1

234

34.1

124

1.2

32.9

125

47.6

7.3

201.0

31.7

ERA

5.55

WHIP

1.587

2.4

K/9

5.60

70.7

FIP

4.46

1.2

FIP-

112.3

13.4

ERA+

71.5

sWAR

-1.7

of 83 qualified 1975 pitchers (min 159 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

96.7

24.6

sWAR

20.3

93.7

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	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1965	2	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.9	-100.0	.000	0.5
1966	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.7	-100.0	.000	0.2
1967	28	44	36	3	2	1	3	3	22	0	.056	.128	.083	.212	-43.8	-35.4	.115	-1.4
1968	34	78	70	2	9	2	3	2	22	0	.129	.153	.157	.310	-21.9	-4.8	.149	1.1
1969	40	92	84	2	9	1	4	4	40	0	.107	.148	.119	.267	-33.4	-23.0	.134	2.8
1970	39	84	67	5	8	1	6	12	28	0	.119	.263	.134	.397	25.1	15.3	.219	2.3
1971	39	112	96	1	9	2	2	6	39	0	.094	.146	.115	.260	-41.3	-25.8	.133	3.8
1972	40	102	82	5	9	0	5	5	30	1	.110	.161	.110	.271	-35.1	-18.6	.141	3.7
1973	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.5
1974	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1975	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.7
1976	51	13	13	0	2	0	0	0	4	0	.154	.154	.154	.308	-36.5	-15.6	.145	0.1
1977	43	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.8
1978	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
1979	15	5	5	0	1	1	0	0	3	0	.200	.200	.400	.600	48.3	57.5	.263	-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
1965	2	2	2	0	0	2	0	9	3	8	7	0	18.0	1.50	.944	3.50	2.95	85.4	230.7	0.5
1966	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	6	2	2	4	0	9.0	2.00	.889	4.00	2.21	64.4	171.7	0.2
1967	28	22	8	9	0	3	0	154	69	47	77	6	134.0	4.63	1.500	5.17	3.11	98.3	68.2	-1.4
1968	33	33	12	16	0	12	2	212	81	51	139	19	223.0	3.27	1.179	5.61	2.93	100.2	89.5	1.1
1969	40	36	12	13	1	12	4	222	90	100	182	26	247.7	3.27	1.300	6.61	3.54	101.1	107.0	2.8
1970	39	29	8	12	0	6	1	190	87	89	152	25	218.7	3.58	1.276	6.26	3.80	106.0	100.1	2.3
1971	39	38	20	9	0	16	3	241	100	96	236	17	286.0	3.15	1.178	7.43	2.56	72.7	111.9	3.8
1972	40	39	19	14	0	9	3	216	87	110	222	23	280.0	2.80	1.164	7.14	3.03	97.3	111.3	3.7
1973	40	40	23	15	0	13	2	283	113	93	202	32	288.3	3.53	1.304	6.31	3.69	92.1	113.8	4.5
1974	41	41	14	12	0	11	2	272	137	158	177	30	285.7	4.32	1.505	5.58	4.48	119.3	87.0	0.9
1975	31	31	10	18	0	6	1	234	124	85	125	27	201.0	5.55	1.587	5.60	4.46	112.3	71.5	-1.7
1976	51	16	4	13	4	1	0	152	72	69	104	10	145.7	4.45	1.517	6.43	3.66	97.9	84.0	0.1
1977	43	12	4	4	2	2	0	114	42	49	55	11	127.7	2.96	1.277	3.88	4.20	104.5	135.7	2.8
1978	41	0	5	0	0	0	0	79	34	35	32	7	80.3	3.81	1.419	3.59	4.23	110.3	100.5	0.8
1979	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	32	14	11	14	1	24.3	5.18	1.767	5.18	3.68	97.1	73.7	-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

485

540

462

RBI

195

.1061

OBP

.1653

SLG

.1234

OPS

.2887

Pitching

G (P)

484

482nd-most career G (P)

340

235th-most career GS

142

301st-most career W

135

247th-most career L

451st-most career CG

SHO

292nd-most career SHO

2,569

235th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,728

146th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,003

116th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.696

WHIP

1.3307

K/9

6.05

362nd-highest career K/9

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	RBI	BB	TB
1968-06-09	MIN @ TEX Gameday	4	1	2	1	2	0	3
1969-07-14	DET @ TEX Gameday	3	0	2	1	2	1	3
1968-05-12	DET @ TEX Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	3
1970-09-13	TEX @ DET Gameday	4	1	2	0	2	1	2
1971-05-16	DET @ TEX Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1971-09-15	TEX @ DET Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	3	14	1
1972-10-10	ATH @ DET Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	3	14	0
1972-06-24	DET @ BAL Gameday	11.0	4	1	1	3	11	0
1969-07-09	CLE @ TEX Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	6	11	0
1969-07-19	TEX @ NYY Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	2	11	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.

Honors

1× All-Star

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