MLB / Players

Joe Hesketh

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 2 in · 170 lb
BornFebruary 15, 1959 · Lackawanna, NY, USA
MLB debutAugust 7, 1984
Final gameAugust 7, 1994
Seasons11 (1984–1994)

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
11.7
88.6

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19841112101100012400.100.250.100.35018.04.5.2031.4
198526534404000143000.091.167.091.258-25.8-23.9.1403.2
198615282300000021800.000.080.000.080-85.6-75.8.060-0.7
198718540000000300.000.000.000.000-126.2-100.0.0000.6
198860421000002100.000.500.000.500135.553.7.3741.4
198943220100000100.500.500.5001.000200.9187.4.465-0.8
199045110000000100.000.000.000.000-131.0-100.0.0000.2
1991390000000000003.2
1992300000000000001.1
1993280000000000000.2
1994250000000000001.9

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1984115221113891532245.01.801.1786.402.9585.6191.31.4
19852525105021125434511310155.32.491.0946.552.8783.7137.63.2
1986151565000924631671182.75.011.4887.294.05109.573.9-0.7
19871800010023101531228.73.141.3269.733.3981.0133.30.6
19886004390063233564172.72.851.3497.932.5772.0125.31.4
19894306430054312644548.35.771.6558.193.80108.160.9-0.8
19904521650069302550759.74.531.5757.543.9799.088.60.2
19913917124000142565310419153.33.291.2726.104.2098.8129.33.2
1992302589110162725810415148.74.361.4806.303.9194.495.11.1
19932853410062302934453.35.061.7065.744.3395.190.00.2
19942520850001175446839114.04.261.4306.554.0381.2116.41.9

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

G
340
PA
105
AB
86
R
2
H
6
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
2
BB
10
SO
58
SB
0
BA
.0698
OBP
.1667
SLG
.0698
OPS
.2365

Pitching

G (P)
339
GS
114
W
60
L
47
SV
21
CG
4
SHO
2
IP
962
SO (P)
726
BB allowed
378
ERA
3.781
WHIP
1.3778
K/9
6.79

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1984-09-28NYM @ WSH Gameday211000111
1985-04-17WSH @ STL Gameday301000001
1985-04-27STL @ WSH Gameday201000001
1985-05-24SF @ WSH Gameday301000001
1985-06-19PIT @ WSH Gameday101000001

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1985-05-08HOU @ WSH Gameday7.24001120
1986-06-17NYM @ WSH Gameday8.18220110
1985-05-03WSH @ ATL Gameday9.0621191
1991-10-02DET @ BOS Gameday7.1533490
1986-05-11LAD @ WSH Gameday6.0522190

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.