Joe Dawson
Cleveland Indians 1924; Pittsburgh Pirates 1927–1929
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .286 | .286 | .571 | 38.2 | 45.8 | .269 | -0.3 |
| 1927 | 20 | 26 | 25 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | -7.7 | 4.7 | .186 | 0.4 |
| 1928 | 31 | 48 | 43 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .279 | .340 | .372 | .713 | 83.2 | 83.7 | .333 | 2.8 |
| 1929 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .667 | .500 | 1.167 | 210.3 | 191.7 | .557 | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 15 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 20.3 | 6.64 | 2.213 | 3.10 | 5.68 | 131.1 | 65.3 | -0.3 |
| 1927 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 80 | 40 | 32 | 17 | 2 | 80.7 | 4.46 | 1.388 | 1.90 | 4.08 | 99.2 | 92.2 | 0.4 |
| 1928 | 31 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 116 | 47 | 56 | 36 | 6 | 128.7 | 3.29 | 1.337 | 2.52 | 4.15 | 101.6 | 124.2 | 2.8 |
| 1929 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8.7 | 8.31 | 1.846 | 2.08 | 6.89 | 143.8 | 57.7 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928-05-05 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1928-05-02 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1927-07-15 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1924-07-04 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1927-07-07 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924-07-09 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 8.0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 0 |
| 1928-09-21 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1928-08-02 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 4.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| 1928-07-24 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 8.0 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 1927-07-07 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 8.0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 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.