Joe Gates
Chicago White Sox 1978–1979
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 8 | 30 | 24 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .379 | .250 | .629 | 94.4 | 80.4 | .320 | 0.1 |
| 1979 | 16 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .063 | .167 | .188 | .354 | -4.7 | -4.4 | .175 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-05-13 | KC @ CWS Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1978-09-15 | CWS @ SEA Gameday | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1978-09-16 | CWS @ SEA Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1978-09-12 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1978-09-14 | CWS @ SEA Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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.