Joe Girardi
Chicago Cubs 1989–1992; Colorado Rockies 1993–1995; New York Yankees 1996–1999; Chicago Cubs 2000–2002; St. Louis Cardinals 2003
Percentile snapshot
1995 season — qualified batters
of 139 qualified 1995 batters (min 446 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 59 | 172 | 157 | 15 | 39 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 11 | 26 | 2 | 1 | .248 | .304 | .331 | .635 | 68.5 | 76.6 | .286 | 0.5 |
| 1990 | 133 | 447 | 419 | 36 | 113 | 24 | 2 | 1 | 38 | 17 | 50 | 8 | 3 | .270 | .300 | .344 | .644 | 62.4 | 71.8 | .285 | 0.6 |
| 1991 | 21 | 54 | 47 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .191 | .283 | .234 | .517 | 41.0 | 44.3 | .247 | 0.0 |
| 1992 | 91 | 291 | 270 | 19 | 73 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 19 | 38 | 0 | 2 | .270 | .320 | .300 | .620 | 72.4 | 74.5 | .291 | 0.8 |
| 1993 | 86 | 350 | 310 | 35 | 90 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 31 | 24 | 41 | 6 | 6 | .290 | .346 | .397 | .743 | 89.2 | 87.1 | .340 | 1.4 |
| 1994 | 93 | 361 | 330 | 47 | 91 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 34 | 21 | 48 | 3 | 3 | .276 | .321 | .364 | .685 | 61.0 | 64.6 | .310 | 0.2 |
| 1995 | 125 | 506 | 462 | 63 | 121 | 17 | 2 | 8 | 55 | 29 | 76 | 3 | 3 | .262 | .308 | .359 | .667 | 55.3 | 60.0 | .304 | -0.1 |
| 1996 | 124 | 471 | 422 | 55 | 124 | 22 | 3 | 2 | 45 | 30 | 55 | 13 | 4 | .294 | .346 | .374 | .720 | 85.7 | 83.9 | .325 | 1.6 |
| 1997 | 112 | 433 | 398 | 38 | 105 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 50 | 26 | 53 | 2 | 3 | .264 | .311 | .334 | .645 | 70.9 | 71.1 | .293 | 0.8 |
| 1998 | 78 | 279 | 254 | 31 | 70 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 31 | 14 | 38 | 2 | 4 | .276 | .317 | .386 | .703 | 86.2 | 87.1 | .312 | 1.1 |
| 1999 | 65 | 229 | 209 | 23 | 50 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 10 | 26 | 3 | 1 | .239 | .271 | .354 | .626 | 58.3 | 61.3 | .277 | 0.1 |
| 2000 | 106 | 407 | 363 | 47 | 101 | 15 | 1 | 6 | 40 | 32 | 61 | 1 | 0 | .278 | .339 | .375 | .714 | 83.8 | 83.6 | .320 | 1.3 |
| 2001 | 78 | 253 | 229 | 22 | 58 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 25 | 21 | 50 | 0 | 1 | .253 | .315 | .345 | .660 | 73.3 | 75.7 | .292 | 0.6 |
| 2002 | 90 | 256 | 234 | 19 | 53 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 16 | 35 | 1 | 0 | .226 | .275 | .291 | .565 | 45.9 | 51.9 | .256 | -0.1 |
| 2003 | 16 | 26 | 23 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .130 | .231 | .130 | .361 | 2.1 | -0.2 | .189 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999-08-23 | NYY @ TEX Gameday | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 8 |
| 2000-08-04 | CHC @ SD Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1995-05-03 | SD @ COL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
| 1997-08-26 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 2001-08-15 | CHC @ HOU Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.