Joe Harris

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 170 lb

BornMay 20, 1891 · Coulter, PA, USA

MLB debutJune 9, 1914

Final gameSeptember 25, 1928

Seasons10 (1914–1928)

New York Yankees 1914; Cleveland Indians 1917; Cleveland Indians 1919; Boston Red Sox 1922–1925; Washington Senators 1925–1926; Pittsburgh Pirates 1927; Brooklyn Robins 1928; Pittsburgh Pirates 1928

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified batters

129

59.2

486

50.9

411

50.3

134

71.6

75.1

59.8

RBI

72.2

37.3

32.5

.326

74.6

OBP

.402

81.1

SLG

.472

OPS

.874

76.9

wRC+

129.7

76.9

OPS+

127.5

75.1

wOBA

.404

78.7

sWAR

2.4

65.1

of 170 qualified 1927 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

133.6

93.1

OPS+

132.5

92.1

sWAR

20.9

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
1914	2	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	.000	.800	.000	.800	303.3	142.7	.621	0.1
1917	112	435	369	40	112	22	4	0	65	55	32	11	0	.304	.398	.385	.783	143.4	138.2	.389	2.8
1919	62	227	184	30	69	16	1	1	46	33	21	2	0	.375	.472	.489	.962	173.9	165.3	.458	2.4
1922	119	448	408	53	129	30	9	6	54	30	15	2	6	.316	.364	.478	.842	116.8	118.7	.384	1.8
1923	142	553	483	82	162	28	11	13	76	52	27	7	3	.335	.406	.520	.925	139.9	140.8	.427	3.8
1924	133	592	491	82	148	36	9	3	77	81	25	6	1	.301	.406	.430	.835	117.7	114.5	.398	2.2
1925	108	388	319	64	100	21	10	13	61	56	33	6	3	.313	.424	.564	.988	149.2	152.5	.448	3.0
1926	92	307	257	43	79	13	9	5	55	37	9	2	3	.307	.405	.486	.891	135.7	135.1	.414	1.9
1927	129	486	411	57	134	27	9	5	73	48	19	0	0	.326	.402	.472	.874	129.7	127.5	.404	2.4
1928	71	132	112	10	30	8	2	1	10	18	6	0	0	.268	.374	.402	.776	107.1	103.8	.365	0.4

Career totals

970

3,574

3,035

461

963

201

478th-most career 3B

RBI

517

413

188

.3173

72nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.4044

55th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4722

281st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8766

115th-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	TB
1925-08-29	MIN @ CWS Gameday	4	4	4	1	0	2	5	11
1925-05-27	MIN @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	2	5	11
1927-05-31	CHC @ PIT Gameday	5	2	5	1	2	0	4	10
1925-08-22	MIN @ DET Gameday	6	3	4	2	0	1	1	9
1922-08-08	BOS @ CLE Gameday	6	2	4	2	1	0	3	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1914-04-14	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-17	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-18	MIN @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-21	MIN @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-22	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.