Joe Hoerner
Houston Colt .45's 1963–1964; St. Louis Cardinals 1966–1969; Philadelphia Phillies 1970–1971; Atlanta Braves 1972; Philadelphia Phillies 1972; Atlanta Braves 1973; Kansas City Royals 1973–1974; Philadelphia Phillies 1975; Texas Rangers 1976; Cincinnati Reds 1977
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.2 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 1964 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -118.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1966 | 57 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .500 | .625 | 53.6 | 63.0 | .259 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 57 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .182 | .182 | .364 | -5.2 | 6.0 | .169 | 1.2 |
| 1968 | 47 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -135.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.4 |
| 1969 | 45 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.9 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.9 |
| 1970 | 44 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .333 | .300 | .633 | 81.6 | 71.8 | .311 | 1.6 |
| 1971 | 49 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .100 | .100 | .200 | -65.4 | -42.8 | .093 | 2.0 |
| 1972 | 40 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -140.7 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1973 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
| 1974 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.3 |
| 1975 | 25 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -133.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.5 |
| 1976 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
| 1977 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.0 | 0.00 | .667 | 6.00 | 1.16 | 37.3 | — | 0.1 |
| 1964 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 11.0 | 4.91 | 1.727 | 3.27 | 7.21 | 216.7 | 67.7 | -0.1 |
| 1966 | 57 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 13 | 21 | 63 | 5 | 76.0 | 1.54 | 1.026 | 7.46 | 2.86 | 78.1 | 237.4 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 57 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 19 | 20 | 50 | 5 | 66.0 | 2.59 | 1.091 | 6.82 | 3.08 | 93.6 | 127.1 | 1.2 |
| 1968 | 47 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 8 | 12 | 42 | 2 | 48.7 | 1.48 | .945 | 7.77 | 2.09 | 71.9 | 196.9 | 1.4 |
| 1969 | 45 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 17 | 9 | 35 | 5 | 53.3 | 2.87 | .994 | 5.91 | 3.13 | 87.2 | 125.0 | 0.9 |
| 1970 | 44 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 17 | 20 | 39 | 5 | 57.7 | 2.65 | 1.266 | 6.09 | 3.72 | 91.8 | 152.5 | 1.6 |
| 1971 | 49 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 16 | 21 | 57 | 6 | 73.0 | 1.97 | 1.068 | 7.03 | 2.95 | 85.8 | 174.4 | 2.0 |
| 1972 | 40 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 22 | 13 | 31 | 6 | 45.0 | 4.40 | 1.511 | 6.20 | 3.88 | 105.8 | 83.2 | 0.0 |
| 1973 | 42 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 20 | 17 | 25 | 1 | 32.0 | 5.63 | 1.938 | 7.03 | 3.01 | 75.7 | 70.6 | -0.3 |
| 1974 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 15 | 12 | 24 | 3 | 35.3 | 3.82 | 1.245 | 6.11 | 3.67 | 97.0 | 99.2 | 0.3 |
| 1975 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 3 | 21.0 | 2.57 | 1.571 | 8.57 | 3.85 | 103.2 | 145.3 | 0.5 |
| 1976 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 20 | 19 | 15 | 3 | 35.0 | 5.14 | 1.714 | 3.86 | 4.50 | 126.0 | 69.5 | -0.3 |
| 1977 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5.7 | 12.71 | 2.118 | 7.94 | 11.03 | 278.5 | 31.2 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966-07-22 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1970-06-16 | HOU @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1967-06-10 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1967-06-21 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1968-10-05 | STL @ DET Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968-06-01 | STL @ NYM Gameday | 4.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 1974-07-20 | KC @ NYY Gameday | 5.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 1970-05-03 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 4.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1970-05-28 | PHI @ WSH Gameday | 4.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1973-08-21 | NYY @ KC Gameday | 4.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.