Joe Gaines
Cincinnati Reds 1960–1962; Baltimore Orioles 1963–1964; Houston Colt .45's 1964; Houston Astros 1965–1966
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 11 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | -2.4 | 9.4 | .183 | -0.2 |
| 1961 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .400 | .000 | .400 | 72.4 | 18.5 | .296 | 0.0 |
| 1962 | 64 | 60 | 52 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .333 | .346 | .679 | 87.4 | 81.9 | .321 | 0.0 |
| 1963 | 66 | 147 | 126 | 24 | 36 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 20 | 20 | 39 | 2 | 1 | .286 | .381 | .476 | .857 | 149.9 | 144.7 | .385 | 1.2 |
| 1964 | 105 | 371 | 333 | 39 | 82 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 36 | 30 | 76 | 8 | 2 | .246 | .311 | .387 | .699 | 104.4 | 101.8 | .320 | 1.0 |
| 1965 | 100 | 256 | 229 | 21 | 52 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 31 | 18 | 59 | 4 | 1 | .227 | .290 | .349 | .639 | 85.3 | 83.8 | .294 | 0.0 |
| 1966 | 11 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .077 | .250 | .154 | .404 | 31.6 | 18.6 | .219 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964-08-30 | HOU @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1964-08-02 | HOU @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 1965-07-30 | HOU @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1964-09-01 | HOU @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1963-04-27 | LAA @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
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.