Joe Hesketh
Montreal Expos 1984–1989; Atlanta Braves 1990; Boston Red Sox 1990; Montreal Expos 1990; Boston Red Sox 1991–1994
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .250 | .100 | .350 | 18.0 | 4.5 | .203 | 1.4 |
| 1985 | 26 | 53 | 44 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 30 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .167 | .091 | .258 | -25.8 | -23.9 | .140 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 15 | 28 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .080 | .000 | .080 | -85.6 | -75.8 | .060 | -0.7 |
| 1987 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.2 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.6 |
| 1988 | 60 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .500 | 135.5 | 53.7 | .374 | 1.4 |
| 1989 | 43 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 200.9 | 187.4 | .465 | -0.8 |
| 1990 | 45 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -131.0 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.2 |
| 1991 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3.2 |
| 1992 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.1 |
| 1993 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.2 |
| 1994 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.9 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 9 | 15 | 32 | 2 | 45.0 | 1.80 | 1.178 | 6.40 | 2.95 | 85.6 | 191.3 | 1.4 |
| 1985 | 25 | 25 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 125 | 43 | 45 | 113 | 10 | 155.3 | 2.49 | 1.094 | 6.55 | 2.87 | 83.7 | 137.6 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 46 | 31 | 67 | 11 | 82.7 | 5.01 | 1.488 | 7.29 | 4.05 | 109.5 | 73.9 | -0.7 |
| 1987 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 10 | 15 | 31 | 2 | 28.7 | 3.14 | 1.326 | 9.73 | 3.39 | 81.0 | 133.3 | 0.6 |
| 1988 | 60 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 23 | 35 | 64 | 1 | 72.7 | 2.85 | 1.349 | 7.93 | 2.57 | 72.0 | 125.3 | 1.4 |
| 1989 | 43 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 31 | 26 | 44 | 5 | 48.3 | 5.77 | 1.655 | 8.19 | 3.80 | 108.1 | 60.9 | -0.8 |
| 1990 | 45 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 30 | 25 | 50 | 7 | 59.7 | 4.53 | 1.575 | 7.54 | 3.97 | 99.0 | 88.6 | 0.2 |
| 1991 | 39 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 142 | 56 | 53 | 104 | 19 | 153.3 | 3.29 | 1.272 | 6.10 | 4.20 | 98.8 | 129.3 | 3.2 |
| 1992 | 30 | 25 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 162 | 72 | 58 | 104 | 15 | 148.7 | 4.36 | 1.480 | 6.30 | 3.91 | 94.4 | 95.1 | 1.1 |
| 1993 | 28 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 30 | 29 | 34 | 4 | 53.3 | 5.06 | 1.706 | 5.74 | 4.33 | 95.1 | 90.0 | 0.2 |
| 1994 | 25 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 117 | 54 | 46 | 83 | 9 | 114.0 | 4.26 | 1.430 | 6.55 | 4.03 | 81.2 | 116.4 | 1.9 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984-09-28 | NYM @ WSH Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1985-04-17 | WSH @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1985-04-27 | STL @ WSH Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1985-05-24 | SF @ WSH Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1985-06-19 | PIT @ WSH Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985-05-08 | HOU @ WSH Gameday | 7.2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 |
| 1986-06-17 | NYM @ WSH Gameday | 8.1 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 1985-05-03 | WSH @ ATL Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
| 1991-10-02 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 7.1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| 1986-05-11 | LAD @ WSH Gameday | 6.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 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.