MLB / Players

Joe Hatten

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 176 lb

BornNovember 7, 1916 · Bancroft, IA, USA

MLB debutApril 21, 1946

Final gameJuly 4, 1952

Seasons7 (1946–1952)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1946–1951; Chicago Cubs 1951–1952

Percentile snapshot

1949 season — qualified pitchers

55.7

54.1

31.1

73.8

78.7

34.4

SHO

34.4

194

70.5

54.1

73.8

13.1

47.5

187.3

ERA

4.18

24.6

WHIP

1.404

42.6

K/9

2.79

16.4

FIP

4.09

31.1

FIP-

98.9

31.1

ERA+

98.9

29.5

sWAR

1.6

26.2

of 62 qualified 1949 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

101.8

45.7

sWAR

10.8

87.7

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1946	42	85	79	4	6	1	4	2	24	1	0	.076	.099	.089	.187	-74.7	-46.7	.094	3.1
1947	42	88	83	3	17	2	8	2	16	1	0	.205	.224	.229	.452	7.3	19.1	.211	3.6
1948	43	75	63	6	13	2	5	4	19	0	0	.206	.254	.238	.492	26.0	32.6	.235	3.3
1949	39	72	67	4	12	1	4	1	21	0	0	.179	.203	.194	.397	-6.6	5.7	.187	1.6
1950	27	19	18	6	2	0	1	0	6	0	0	.111	.111	.111	.222	-63.3	-41.6	.101	0.2
1951	34	34	32	1	6	0	2	0	8	0	1	.188	.188	.188	.375	-16.8	0.4	.171	-0.1
1952	17	16	15	2	1	0	0	0	5	0	0	.067	.067	.067	.133	-91.9	-63.3	.061	-1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1946	42	30	14	11	2	13	1	207	70	110	85	10	222.0	2.84	1.428	3.45	3.72	108.9	120.4	3.1
1947	42	32	17	8	0	11	3	211	91	105	76	9	225.3	3.63	1.402	3.04	3.88	93.3	114.4	3.6
1948	42	30	13	10	0	11	1	228	83	94	73	9	208.7	3.58	1.543	3.15	3.82	94.9	112.5	3.3
1949	37	29	12	8	2	11	2	194	87	69	58	15	187.3	4.18	1.404	2.79	4.09	98.9	98.9	1.6
1950	23	8	2	2	0	2	1	82	35	31	29	10	68.7	4.59	1.646	3.80	4.86	116.3	91.1	0.2
1951	34	12	3	6	0	1	0	137	68	58	45	11	124.7	4.91	1.564	3.25	4.23	105.0	81.9	-0.1
1952	13	8	4	4	0	2	0	65	34	25	15	6	50.3	6.08	1.788	2.68	4.92	129.5	62.5	-1.0

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

244

389

357

RBI

.1597

OBP

.1826

SLG

.1765

OPS

.3591

Pitching

G (P)

233

149

SHO

1,087

SO (P)

381

BB allowed

492

ERA

3.875

WHIP

1.4867

K/9

3.15

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	RBI	BB	TB
1949-07-07	LAD @ ATL Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	0	3
1947-08-22	CIN @ LAD Gameday	2	0	2	1	1	0	3
1947-09-14	LAD @ CIN Gameday	5	1	2	0	2	0	2
1949-05-18	LAD @ CHC Gameday	4	1	2	0	2	1	2
1948-08-30	LAD @ STL Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1951-04-23	ATL @ LAD Gameday	11.1	5	1	1	4	9	0
1947-05-25	PHI @ LAD Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	6	8	0
1946-09-28	ATL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	5	4	4	4	7	1
1946-05-22	CHC @ LAD Gameday	12.0	4	1	0	8	6	0
1946-09-08	SF @ LAD Gameday	9.0	4	3	1	5	6	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.