Joe Gantenbein
Philadelphia Athletics 1939–1940
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 111 | 387 | 348 | 47 | 101 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 32 | 22 | 1 | 5 | .290 | .353 | .388 | .741 | 89.1 | 88.8 | .344 | 0.9 |
| 1940 | 75 | 210 | 197 | 21 | 47 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 11 | 21 | 1 | 0 | .239 | .282 | .350 | .633 | 58.7 | 62.8 | .287 | -0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-09-10 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1939-06-25 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1940-08-25 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1939-06-03 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1939-05-06 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-04-20 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-21 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-22 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-23 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-24 | ATH @ NYY 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.