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Joe Delahanty

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 168 lb

BornOctober 18, 1875 · Cleveland, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 30, 1907

Final gameOctober 6, 1909

Seasons3 (1907–1909)

St. Louis Cardinals 1907–1909

Percentile snapshot

1908 season — qualified batters

140

553

45.2

499

51.9

28.8

127

54.8

44.2

81.7

35.6

RBI

54.8

46.2

43.3

39.4

.255

48.1

OBP

.309

40.4

SLG

.333

52.9

OPS

.641

41.3

wRC+

104.6

46.2

OPS+

105.6

48.1

wOBA

.313

38.5

sWAR

1.4

40.4

of 105 qualified 1908 batters (min 477 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.2

70.9

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1907	7	22	22	3	7	0	0	1	2	0	0	3	.318	.318	.455	.773	134.9	141.8	.367	0.1
1908	140	553	499	37	127	14	11	1	44	32	43	11	.255	.309	.333	.641	104.6	105.6	.313	1.4
1909	123	468	411	28	88	16	4	2	54	42	50	10	.214	.292	.287	.579	82.4	81.6	.291	0.7

Career totals

270

1,043

932

222

RBI

100

.2382

OBP

.3012

SLG

.3155

OPS

.6167

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	TB
1909-08-17	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	1	3	2	1	0	1	7
1908-04-15	PIT @ STL Gameday	4	0	3	1	1	0	0	6
1908-05-18	ATL @ STL Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	1	1	6
1908-07-13	LAD @ STL Gameday	3	1	2	0	2	0	1	6
1908-04-27	STL @ CIN Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	0	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1907-04-11	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-14	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-15	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-16	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-17	STL @ CIN 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.