Joe Grzenda
Detroit Tigers 1961; Kansas City Athletics 1964; Kansas City Athletics 1966; New York Mets 1967; Minnesota Twins 1969; Washington Senators 1970–1971; St. Louis Cardinals 1972
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 481.5 | 435.5 | .914 | -0.1 |
| 1964 | 20 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -136.4 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 1966 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.3 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.2 |
| 1967 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.4 |
| 1969 | 38 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .286 | .000 | .286 | 18.9 | -14.0 | .215 | 0.3 |
| 1970 | 49 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.7 |
| 1971 | 46 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -38.8 | -18.2 | .133 | 2.0 |
| 1972 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -131.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.7 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5.7 | 7.94 | 1.941 | 0.00 | 8.15 | 200.2 | 51.3 | -0.1 |
| 1964 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 15 | 13 | 17 | 2 | 25.0 | 5.40 | 1.880 | 6.12 | 3.82 | 100.9 | 70.1 | -0.3 |
| 1966 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 1 | 22.0 | 3.27 | 1.818 | 5.73 | 3.39 | 100.0 | 103.5 | 0.2 |
| 1967 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 16.7 | 2.16 | 1.320 | 4.86 | 3.20 | 95.7 | 154.7 | 0.4 |
| 1969 | 38 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 21 | 17 | 24 | 4 | 48.7 | 3.88 | 1.418 | 4.44 | 3.55 | 97.3 | 94.0 | 0.3 |
| 1970 | 49 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 47 | 34 | 38 | 8 | 84.7 | 5.00 | 1.417 | 4.04 | 4.07 | 113.6 | 71.7 | -0.7 |
| 1971 | 46 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 15 | 17 | 56 | 2 | 70.3 | 1.92 | 1.009 | 7.17 | 1.90 | 55.4 | 179.1 | 2.0 |
| 1972 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 22 | 17 | 15 | 1 | 35.0 | 5.66 | 1.800 | 3.86 | 3.76 | 110.3 | 60.2 | -0.7 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971-07-28 | TEX @ MIN Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1961-04-26 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1961-04-27 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1961-05-07 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1961-05-09 | TEX @ DET Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969-06-17 | LAA @ MIN Gameday | 3.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1971-07-03 | TEX @ CLE Gameday | 3.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1971-06-05 | ATH @ TEX Gameday | 2.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1971-09-18 | BOS @ TEX Gameday | 4.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1970-08-03 | TEX @ DET Gameday | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 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.