Joe Ginsberg
Detroit Tigers 1948; Detroit Tigers 1950–1952; Cleveland Indians 1953; Detroit Tigers 1953; Cleveland Indians 1954; Baltimore Orioles 1956; Kansas City Athletics 1956; Baltimore Orioles 1957–1960; Chicago White Sox 1960; Boston Red Sox 1961; Chicago White Sox 1961; New York Mets 1962
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 11 | 39 | 36 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .361 | .410 | .361 | .771 | 108.2 | 104.8 | .373 | 0.3 |
| 1950 | 36 | 109 | 95 | 12 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 0 | .232 | .318 | .295 | .612 | 56.5 | 56.4 | .298 | 0.0 |
| 1951 | 102 | 351 | 304 | 44 | 79 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 37 | 43 | 21 | 0 | 2 | .260 | .355 | .385 | .740 | 101.2 | 99.8 | .351 | 2.0 |
| 1952 | 113 | 364 | 307 | 29 | 68 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 36 | 51 | 21 | 1 | 1 | .221 | .338 | .336 | .673 | 88.3 | 85.4 | .327 | 1.6 |
| 1953 | 64 | 192 | 162 | 16 | 47 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .290 | .388 | .327 | .715 | 104.1 | 97.4 | .348 | 1.2 |
| 1954 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .667 | 1.500 | 2.167 | 437.4 | 485.9 | .821 | 0.1 |
| 1956 | 86 | 252 | 223 | 15 | 50 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 25 | 21 | 1 | 1 | .224 | .299 | .283 | .581 | 49.7 | 53.1 | .274 | -0.2 |
| 1957 | 85 | 201 | 175 | 15 | 48 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 2 | 1 | .274 | .342 | .360 | .702 | 99.3 | 98.9 | .325 | 1.2 |
| 1958 | 61 | 126 | 109 | 4 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .211 | .302 | .303 | .604 | 72.4 | 72.5 | .282 | 0.3 |
| 1959 | 65 | 190 | 166 | 14 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 21 | 13 | 1 | 0 | .181 | .268 | .211 | .479 | 34.1 | 36.2 | .229 | -0.4 |
| 1960 | 42 | 125 | 105 | 11 | 27 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 0 | .257 | .358 | .305 | .662 | 88.5 | 83.5 | .317 | 0.6 |
| 1961 | 25 | 29 | 27 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .250 | .222 | .472 | 20.2 | 24.4 | .222 | -0.1 |
| 1962 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-07-07 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 1951-04-23 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1952-09-09 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 1951-07-04 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1952-04-26 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-04-20 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-21 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-22 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-23 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-24 | CLE @ DET 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.