Joe DeMaestri
Chicago White Sox 1951; St. Louis Browns 1952; Philadelphia Athletics 1953–1954; Kansas City Athletics 1955–1959; New York Yankees 1960–1961
Percentile snapshot
1957 season — qualified batters
of 75 qualified 1957 batters (min 477 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 56 | 79 | 74 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 4 | .203 | .253 | .297 | .550 | 44.8 | 50.8 | .259 | -0.1 |
| 1952 | 81 | 198 | 186 | 13 | 42 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 25 | 0 | 1 | .226 | .258 | .301 | .559 | 41.1 | 51.8 | .262 | -0.3 |
| 1953 | 111 | 452 | 420 | 53 | 107 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 35 | 24 | 39 | 0 | 1 | .255 | .297 | .352 | .649 | 64.0 | 70.1 | .300 | 0.0 |
| 1954 | 146 | 572 | 539 | 49 | 124 | 16 | 3 | 8 | 40 | 20 | 63 | 1 | 4 | .230 | .258 | .315 | .574 | 42.8 | 54.2 | .265 | -1.3 |
| 1955 | 123 | 486 | 457 | 42 | 114 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 37 | 20 | 47 | 3 | 5 | .249 | .284 | .324 | .608 | 55.4 | 60.9 | .284 | -0.4 |
| 1956 | 133 | 468 | 434 | 41 | 101 | 16 | 1 | 6 | 39 | 25 | 73 | 3 | 3 | .233 | .277 | .316 | .593 | 48.7 | 54.8 | .275 | -0.8 |
| 1957 | 135 | 492 | 461 | 44 | 113 | 14 | 6 | 9 | 33 | 22 | 82 | 6 | 1 | .245 | .280 | .360 | .640 | 66.5 | 71.7 | .291 | 0.3 |
| 1958 | 139 | 468 | 442 | 32 | 97 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 38 | 16 | 84 | 1 | 0 | .219 | .247 | .290 | .536 | 37.1 | 45.5 | .244 | -1.3 |
| 1959 | 118 | 387 | 352 | 31 | 86 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 34 | 28 | 65 | 1 | 0 | .244 | .305 | .369 | .674 | 75.4 | 82.0 | .300 | 0.7 |
| 1960 | 49 | 35 | 35 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .229 | .229 | .257 | .486 | 27.1 | 35.5 | .221 | -0.1 |
| 1961 | 30 | 41 | 41 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .146 | .146 | .146 | .293 | -30.8 | -18.8 | .134 | -0.4 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956-07-15 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1953-08-08 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1954-07-09 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 1952-06-11 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1957-07-27 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-04-17 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-06-19 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-07-04 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-07-04 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-07-06 | CWS @ BAL 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.
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.