Joe Garagiola
St. Louis Cardinals 1946–1950; Pittsburgh Pirates 1951; St. Louis Cardinals 1951; Pittsburgh Pirates 1952; Chicago Cubs 1953; Pittsburgh Pirates 1953; Chicago Cubs 1954; New York Giants 1954
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 74 | 235 | 211 | 21 | 50 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 23 | 25 | 0 | 0 | .237 | .312 | .308 | .620 | 72.8 | 74.8 | .302 | 0.7 |
| 1947 | 77 | 228 | 183 | 20 | 47 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 25 | 40 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .257 | .398 | .415 | .814 | 120.2 | 114.0 | .383 | 1.9 |
| 1948 | 24 | 69 | 56 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .107 | .275 | .232 | .508 | 41.4 | 36.4 | .260 | -0.1 |
| 1949 | 81 | 275 | 241 | 25 | 63 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 26 | 31 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .261 | .348 | .357 | .705 | 89.4 | 87.5 | .331 | 1.2 |
| 1950 | 34 | 98 | 88 | 8 | 28 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .318 | .388 | .477 | .865 | 124.9 | 123.1 | .388 | 0.9 |
| 1951 | 99 | 331 | 284 | 33 | 68 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 44 | 41 | 27 | 4 | 1 | .239 | .339 | .423 | .762 | 100.1 | 99.6 | .348 | 1.8 |
| 1952 | 118 | 396 | 344 | 35 | 94 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 54 | 50 | 24 | 0 | 1 | .273 | .369 | .410 | .779 | 113.4 | 109.9 | .362 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 101 | 337 | 301 | 30 | 79 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 35 | 31 | 34 | 1 | 0 | .262 | .337 | .365 | .703 | 81.3 | 80.9 | .321 | 1.0 |
| 1954 | 68 | 200 | 164 | 17 | 46 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 22 | 29 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .280 | .397 | .415 | .812 | 117.2 | 110.8 | .373 | 1.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-05-28 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1954-05-16 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1948-04-30 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 1954-09-02 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1946-08-17 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-04-16 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-17 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-18 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-20 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-21 | STL @ CHC 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.