MLB / Players

Joe Gordon

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb

BornFebruary 18, 1915 · Los Angeles, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1938

Final gameSeptember 30, 1950

Seasons11 (1938–1950)

New York Yankees 1938–1943; New York Yankees 1946; Cleveland Indians 1947–1950

Percentile snapshot

1949 season — qualified batters

148

65.3

632

62.7

541

42.7

136

30.7

5.3

22.7

73.3

RBI

73.3

69.3

57.3

.251

9.3

OBP

.355

37.3

SLG

.407

OPS

.762

41.3

wRC+

104.9

41.3

OPS+

105.8

wOBA

.364

sWAR

2.7

53.3

of 76 qualified 1949 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

120.6

79.7

OPS+

122.9

83.5

sWAR

40.7

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
1938	127	520	458	83	117	24	7	25	97	56	72	11	3	.255	.340	.502	.843	107.7	112.3	.376	2.4
1939	151	648	567	92	161	32	5	28	111	75	57	11	10	.284	.370	.506	.876	124.0	127.2	.394	4.3
1940	155	677	616	112	173	32	10	30	103	52	57	18	8	.281	.340	.511	.851	115.0	118.4	.375	3.7
1941	156	665	588	104	162	26	7	24	87	72	80	10	9	.276	.358	.466	.824	119.0	120.6	.376	3.7
1942	147	625	538	88	173	29	4	18	103	79	95	12	6	.322	.409	.491	.900	158.5	157.8	.421	6.8
1943	152	650	543	82	135	28	5	17	69	98	75	4	7	.249	.365	.413	.778	132.7	128.9	.374	4.9
1946	112	431	376	35	79	15	0	11	47	49	72	2	5	.210	.308	.338	.645	79.6	80.4	.309	0.6
1947	155	626	562	89	153	27	6	29	93	62	49	7	3	.272	.346	.496	.842	135.8	139.7	.386	5.1
1948	144	633	550	96	154	21	4	32	124	77	68	5	2	.280	.371	.507	.879	134.1	138.0	.404	5.0
1949	148	632	541	74	136	18	3	20	84	83	33	5	6	.251	.355	.407	.762	104.9	105.8	.364	2.7
1950	119	429	368	59	87	12	1	19	57	56	44	4	1	.236	.340	.429	.770	99.5	101.5	.356	1.5

Career totals

1,566

6,536

5,707

914

461st-most career R

1,530

264

253

248th-most career HR

RBI

975

336th-most career RBI

759

313th-most career BB

702

.2681

OBP

.3569

SLG

.4656

326th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8225

329th-highest career OPS

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
1938-09-04	MIN @ NYY Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	2	3	0	12
1938-08-27	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	2	6	1	11
1940-09-08	NYY @ BOS Gameday	4	3	4	1	1	1	1	2	10
1939-06-28	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	4	0	10
1946-05-23	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	4	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-04-18	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-19	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-19	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-21	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-22	MIN @ 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 2009 (Veterans - Pre-1943)

1× Most Valuable Player9× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.