MLB / Players

Joe Hague

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 195 lb

BornApril 25, 1944 · Huntington, WV, USA

MLB debutSeptember 19, 1968

Final gameJune 2, 1973

Seasons6 (1968–1973)

St. Louis Cardinals 1968–1971; Cincinnati Reds 1972; St. Louis Cardinals 1972; Cincinnati Reds 1973

Percentile snapshot

1970 season — qualified batters

139

13.3

524

6.2

451

2.7

14.2

122

9.7

11.5

46.9

41.6

RBI

45.1

57.5

36.3

16.8

78.8

.271

45.1

OBP

.358

60.2

SLG

.417

38.1

OPS

.775

41.6

wRC+

108.8

38.9

OPS+

105.8

36.3

wOBA

.356

47.8

sWAR

1.3

24.8

of 114 qualified 1970 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.0

70.1

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
1968	7	19	17	2	4	0	0	1	1	2	2	0	0	.235	.316	.412	.728	127.3	120.4	.343	0.1
1969	40	112	100	8	17	2	1	2	8	12	23	0	2	.170	.259	.270	.529	47.4	49.1	.253	-0.5
1970	139	524	451	58	122	16	4	14	68	63	87	2	1	.271	.358	.417	.775	108.8	105.8	.356	1.3
1971	129	443	380	46	86	9	3	16	54	58	69	0	3	.226	.330	.392	.722	99.6	101.0	.330	0.4
1972	96	255	214	25	52	12	2	7	31	37	36	1	2	.243	.350	.416	.766	120.3	122.5	.347	0.9
1973	19	39	33	2	5	2	0	0	1	5	5	1	0	.152	.256	.212	.469	40.0	35.2	.236	-0.2

Career totals

430

1,392

1,195

141

286

RBI

163

177

222

.2393

OBP

.3360

SLG

.3908

OPS

.7268

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1971-05-10	STL @ WSH Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	3	0	9
1970-07-02	STL @ WSH Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	5	1	8
1971-06-05	STL @ CIN Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	4	1	8
1970-05-28	STL @ NYM Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	5	0	7
1970-08-08	WSH @ STL Gameday	6	2	3	1	1	5	0	7

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.