Joe Ferguson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 200 lb

BornSeptember 19, 1946 · San Francisco, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 12, 1970

Final gameJune 17, 1983

Seasons14 (1970–1983)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1970–1976; St. Louis Cardinals 1976; Houston Astros 1977–1978; Los Angeles Dodgers 1978–1980; California Angels 1981; Los Angeles Dodgers 1981; California Angels 1982–1983

Percentile snapshot

1977 season — qualified batters

132

6.2

511

2.7

421

108

1.4

22.6

21.2

48.6

RBI

33.6

93.2

41.8

84.9

.257

17.8

OBP

.379

86.3

SLG

.435

49.3

OPS

.814

66.4

wRC+

130.2

78.8

OPS+

127.3

76.7

wOBA

.371

71.9

sWAR

4.6

82.9

of 147 qualified 1977 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

119.0

77.7

OPS+

117.3

sWAR

26.1

95.7

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
1970	5	7	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	0	.250	.429	.250	.679	109.3	92.1	.347	0.1
1971	36	115	102	13	22	3	0	2	7	12	15	1	0	.216	.304	.304	.608	80.6	78.6	.291	0.4
1972	8	27	24	2	7	3	0	1	5	2	4	0	0	.292	.346	.542	.888	157.7	153.5	.401	0.3
1973	136	585	487	84	128	26	0	25	88	87	81	1	1	.263	.369	.470	.839	137.9	138.0	.379	5.7
1974	111	430	349	54	88	14	1	16	57	75	73	2	2	.252	.380	.436	.815	134.9	134.6	.378	3.8
1975	66	241	202	15	42	2	1	5	23	35	47	2	1	.208	.325	.302	.627	81.5	80.4	.301	0.4
1976	125	439	374	46	79	15	4	10	39	57	81	6	2	.211	.317	.353	.670	94.4	92.0	.319	1.5
1977	132	511	421	59	108	21	3	16	61	85	79	6	2	.257	.379	.435	.814	130.2	127.3	.371	4.6
1978	118	426	348	40	78	16	0	14	50	71	71	1	2	.224	.356	.391	.747	114.8	113.5	.346	3.2
1979	122	442	363	54	95	14	0	20	69	70	68	1	0	.262	.380	.466	.845	135.2	132.3	.384	3.7
1980	77	214	172	20	41	3	2	9	29	38	46	2	2	.238	.371	.436	.807	121.0	127.6	.356	1.8
1981	29	57	44	7	9	2	0	1	6	11	13	0	0	.205	.357	.318	.675	108.7	98.6	.333	0.3
1982	36	97	84	10	19	2	0	3	8	12	19	0	0	.226	.323	.357	.680	92.3	87.8	.316	0.5
1983	12	33	27	3	2	0	0	0	2	5	8	0	0	.074	.219	.074	.293	-4.4	-14.3	.172	-0.2

Career totals

1,013

3,624

3,001

407

719

121

122

RBI

445

562

607

.2396

OBP

.3576

SLG

.4092

OPS

.7668

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1973-09-22	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	4	4	1	2	3	1	11
1980-08-31	WSH @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	3	0	10
1974-05-15	HOU @ LAD Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	5	0	9
1973-08-25	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	4	0	9
1977-04-29	HOU @ PIT Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	4	0	9

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.