Joe Edelen
Cincinnati Reds 1981; St. Louis Cardinals 1981; Cincinnati Reds 1982
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | -1.0 | 12.9 | .188 | -0.5 |
| 1982 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 192.7 | 179.1 | .466 | -0.8 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 19 | 3 | 15 | 3 | 30.0 | 5.70 | 1.233 | 4.50 | 3.37 | 94.7 | 62.4 | -0.5 |
| 1982 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 15.3 | 8.80 | 1.957 | 6.46 | 4.57 | 124.4 | 41.8 | -0.8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981-05-01 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1982-04-23 | CIN @ HOU Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1981-04-18 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981-04-26 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981-04-29 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981-09-19 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 6.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1982-05-15 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 2.1 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 1982-04-23 | CIN @ HOU Gameday | 3.1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981-04-18 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 2.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982-05-02 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 2.1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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.