Joe Evans
Cleveland Indians 1915–1922; Washington Senators 1923; St. Louis Browns 1924–1925
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1915 | 42 | 138 | 109 | 17 | 28 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 22 | 18 | 6 | 1 | .257 | .382 | .330 | .712 | 116.6 | 109.6 | .364 | 0.8 |
| 1916 | 33 | 94 | 82 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 0 | .146 | .213 | .159 | .372 | 1.1 | 9.4 | .196 | -0.7 |
| 1917 | 132 | 460 | 385 | 36 | 73 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 33 | 42 | 44 | 12 | 0 | .190 | .271 | .242 | .513 | 55.7 | 56.0 | .263 | -0.6 |
| 1918 | 79 | 281 | 243 | 38 | 64 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 22 | 30 | 29 | 7 | 0 | .263 | .344 | .358 | .702 | 106.1 | 105.0 | .350 | 1.3 |
| 1919 | 21 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .071 | .188 | .071 | .259 | -28.5 | -27.2 | .155 | -0.2 |
| 1920 | 56 | 189 | 172 | 32 | 60 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 23 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 2 | .349 | .404 | .506 | .910 | 138.3 | 139.1 | .420 | 1.4 |
| 1921 | 57 | 174 | 153 | 36 | 51 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 1 | .333 | .410 | .405 | .816 | 112.1 | 108.0 | .386 | 0.6 |
| 1922 | 75 | 164 | 145 | 35 | 39 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 2 | .269 | .307 | .338 | .645 | 64.1 | 67.4 | .302 | -0.4 |
| 1923 | 106 | 420 | 372 | 42 | 98 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 27 | 18 | 6 | 4 | .263 | .313 | .320 | .633 | 70.2 | 71.4 | .303 | -0.1 |
| 1924 | 77 | 243 | 209 | 30 | 53 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 24 | 12 | 4 | 4 | .254 | .330 | .297 | .627 | 63.6 | 61.8 | .309 | -0.5 |
| 1925 | 55 | 183 | 159 | 27 | 50 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 2 | .314 | .377 | .390 | .767 | 90.3 | 89.4 | .363 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921-04-26 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1920-06-01 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1920-07-05 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1921-09-15 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1924-07-31 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1915-04-14 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1915-04-15 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1915-04-16 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1915-04-17 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1915-04-18 | CLE @ 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.