Joe Greene

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 190 lb

BornOctober 17, 1911 · Stone Mountain, GA, USA

Seasons11 (1932–1948)

Atlanta Black Crackers 1932; Chicago American Giants 1936; Homestead Grays 1936; Atlanta Black Crackers 1938; Kansas City Monarchs 1939–1943; Kansas City Monarchs 1946–1947; Cleveland Buckeyes 1948

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

8.1

84.4

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1932	10	37	33	2	4	0	0	0	1	4	0	1	.121	.216	.121	.337	20.4	4.0	.185	-0.2
1936	2	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	48.4	28.0	.232	0.0
1938	29	104	88	15	26	4	4	0	10	12	8	0	.295	.392	.432	.824	132.2	137.1	.391	0.9
1939	32	121	105	11	24	3	2	2	11	11	0	0	.229	.300	.352	.652	88.0	89.3	.309	0.5
1940	28	108	91	26	24	7	4	2	22	15	0	5	.264	.368	.495	.862	145.7	160.1	.414	1.2
1941	33	118	105	18	30	5	6	0	27	12	2	0	.286	.359	.448	.807	130.6	138.7	.381	1.2
1942	34	132	118	24	34	9	1	6	28	13	0	3	.288	.359	.534	.893	152.2	163.6	.409	1.5
1943	2	8	8	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.125	.125	.375	.500	44.0	51.4	.224	0.0
1946	26	95	71	14	21	2	1	2	12	22	1	1	.296	.462	.437	.899	162.9	165.4	.446	1.2
1947	42	150	116	30	38	6	1	4	24	29	1	5	.328	.469	.500	.969	153.8	160.8	.463	1.6
1948	14	48	38	8	9	1	0	2	5	9	0	0	.237	.383	.421	.804	116.0	115.1	.383	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1947	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	4	0	0	1.7	10.80	3.600	0.00	13.05	265.0	45.6	1.6

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

252

925

777

148

212

RBI

141

127

.2728

OBP

.3772

SLG

.4414

OPS

.8186

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

10.800

WHIP

3.6000

K/9

0.00

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
1942-07-19	KCM @ CAG Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	1	8
1946-06-20	IC @ KCM Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	0	0	0	7
1947-06-26	KCM @ MEM Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	1	4	2	6
1946-06-16	CLB @ KCM Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	3	0	6
1947-06-16	CLB @ KCM Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	1	3	2	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB
1947-05-01	KCM @ IC Gameday	1.2	2	3	2	4
1932-04-23	ATL @ MNT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-24	ATL @ MNT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-24	ATL @ MNT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1932-05-02	MNT @ ATL Gameday	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

2× 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.