Joe Dobson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 197 lb

BornJanuary 20, 1917 · Durant, OK, USA

MLB debutApril 26, 1939

Final gameApril 30, 1954

Seasons14 (1939–1954)

Cleveland Indians 1939–1940; Boston Red Sox 1941–1943; Boston Red Sox 1946–1950; Chicago White Sox 1951–1953; Boston Red Sox 1954

Percentile snapshot

1952 season — qualified pitchers

33.3

61.7

53.3

51.7

41.7

SHO

164

101

51.7

78.3

200.7

48.3

ERA

2.51

91.7

WHIP

1.116

93.3

K/9

4.53

FIP

2.97

86.7

FIP-

81.9

88.3

ERA+

144.2

93.3

sWAR

4.6

78.3

of 61 qualified 1952 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

112.3

77.1

sWAR

31.3

96.7

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1939	35	20	18	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	.056	.105	.056	.161	-58.2	-56.6	.088	-0.6
1940	40	27	24	0	3	0	0	0	0	3	14	0	.125	.222	.125	.347	-0.6	-4.9	.184	0.1
1941	27	54	47	3	7	0	0	1	6	4	14	0	.149	.216	.213	.428	8.2	13.7	.209	0.8
1942	30	78	69	6	10	1	0	0	3	3	17	0	.145	.192	.159	.351	-12.4	-1.9	.176	2.6
1943	25	59	52	3	5	0	0	0	0	2	21	0	.096	.161	.096	.257	-37.9	-24.6	.139	1.7
1946	32	60	50	5	5	0	0	0	2	4	28	0	.100	.167	.100	.267	-43.8	-26.0	.142	2.3
1947	33	91	77	4	16	0	1	0	3	7	22	0	.208	.274	.234	.508	31.9	38.3	.252	5.0
1948	38	101	84	9	17	2	0	1	4	6	27	0	.202	.280	.262	.541	38.5	42.2	.267	4.9
1949	33	83	68	5	10	0	0	0	2	10	22	1	.147	.256	.147	.403	2.8	5.1	.220	3.4
1950	39	88	70	6	15	2	0	0	9	9	23	0	.214	.313	.243	.555	38.2	38.1	.279	3.9
1951	28	53	46	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	20	0	.065	.065	.087	.152	-79.3	-58.5	.069	1.5
1952	29	77	63	3	12	0	0	0	3	4	20	0	.190	.239	.190	.429	12.8	21.3	.212	4.6
1953	23	31	29	0	2	1	0	0	2	1	11	0	.069	.100	.103	.203	-65.5	-45.0	.100	1.1
1954	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-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
1939	35	3	2	3	1	0	0	87	51	51	27	3	78.0	5.88	1.769	3.12	4.94	112.9	74.4	-0.6
1940	40	7	3	7	3	2	1	101	55	48	57	8	100.0	4.95	1.490	5.13	4.26	102.7	83.9	0.1
1941	27	18	12	5	0	7	1	136	67	67	69	8	134.3	4.49	1.511	4.62	4.05	97.7	92.3	0.8
1942	30	23	11	9	0	10	3	155	67	68	72	9	182.7	3.30	1.221	3.55	3.55	94.8	113.5	2.6
1943	25	20	7	11	0	9	3	144	57	57	63	4	164.3	3.12	1.223	3.45	2.94	88.2	106.8	1.7
1946	32	24	13	7	0	9	1	148	60	68	91	11	166.7	3.24	1.296	4.91	3.46	94.2	113.3	2.3
1947	33	31	18	8	1	15	1	203	75	73	110	15	228.7	2.95	1.207	4.33	3.29	84.2	132.2	5.0
1948	38	32	16	10	2	16	5	237	97	92	116	14	245.3	3.56	1.341	4.26	3.68	83.0	124.6	4.9
1949	33	27	14	12	2	12	2	219	91	97	87	12	212.7	3.85	1.486	3.68	3.80	85.6	115.4	3.4
1950	39	27	15	10	4	12	1	217	96	81	81	15	206.7	4.18	1.442	3.53	4.05	81.7	118.5	3.9
1951	28	21	7	6	3	6	0	136	59	51	67	17	146.7	3.62	1.275	4.11	4.21	105.6	110.3	1.5
1952	29	25	14	10	1	11	3	164	56	60	101	11	200.7	2.51	1.116	4.53	2.97	81.9	144.2	4.6
1953	23	15	5	5	1	3	1	96	41	37	50	10	100.7	3.67	1.321	4.47	3.97	99.1	109.2	1.1
1954	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	1	1	0	2.7	6.75	2.250	3.38	2.75	68.0	59.9	-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

414

822

697

106

RBI

244

.1521

OBP

.2203

SLG

.1736

OPS

.3939

Pitching

G (P)

414

273

440th-most career GS

137

331st-most career W

103

112

357th-most career CG

SHO

218th-most career SHO

2,170

361st-most career IP

SO (P)

992

BB allowed

851

205th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.625

WHIP

1.3359

K/9

4.11

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
1941-06-02	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	1	6
1947-06-04	BOS @ BAL Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	0	0	4
1948-04-29	BOS @ ATH Gameday	1	1	1	0	0	1	2	4
1950-08-12	BOS @ MIN Gameday	5	0	2	1	0	0	2	3
1953-05-08	DET @ CWS Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1948-04-19	ATH @ BOS Gameday	10.1	14	5	5	2	9	0
1952-07-05	CWS @ CLE Gameday	10.1	11	3	3	5	9	1
1941-07-15	BOS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	6	9	0
1946-04-30	DET @ BOS Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	3	9	0
1947-05-20	DET @ BOS Gameday	9.0	10	3	3	2	9	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.