MLB / Players

Joe Horlen

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornAugust 14, 1937 · San Antonio, TX, USA

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1961

Final gameOctober 4, 1972

Seasons12 (1961–1972)

Chicago White Sox 1961–1971; Oakland Athletics 1972

Percentile snapshot

1970 season — qualified pitchers

3.8

1.3

7.7

SHO

198

65.4

97.4

1.3

73.1

172.3

5.1

ERA

4.86

WHIP

1.387

23.1

K/9

4.02

7.7

FIP

3.68

48.7

FIP-

94.8

ERA+

79.8

1.3

sWAR

-0.5

1.3

of 79 qualified 1970 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

109.4

70.9

sWAR

26.0

95.6

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	3B	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1961	5	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.4	-100.0	.000	-0.5
1962	20	44	38	1	2	0	0	0	2	11	0	0	.053	.100	.053	.153	-69.3	-57.0	.083	-0.5
1963	33	43	40	2	9	0	0	3	1	9	0	0	.225	.244	.225	.469	29.1	35.3	.217	1.7
1964	32	79	69	2	11	0	0	5	2	11	0	0	.159	.183	.159	.343	-11.9	-1.2	.162	6.1
1965	34	81	68	0	9	1	0	2	5	12	0	0	.132	.192	.147	.339	-1.0	1.7	.169	3.1
1966	64	67	60	6	4	0	0	1	2	12	1	0	.067	.095	.067	.162	-62.5	-50.5	.081	3.7
1967	51	94	83	8	14	1	0	5	1	14	0	1	.169	.186	.181	.367	1.3	11.8	.173	6.0
1968	41	75	67	2	7	0	1	3	3	13	0	0	.104	.143	.134	.277	-33.7	-15.7	.137	4.0
1969	36	84	77	4	14	1	0	5	0	22	0	0	.182	.182	.195	.377	-14.3	2.9	.175	2.4
1970	28	59	52	2	6	1	0	1	2	14	0	0	.115	.148	.135	.283	-39.2	-22.8	.138	-0.5
1971	36	43	40	1	4	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	.100	.098	.100	.198	-72.4	-44.4	.091	-0.1
1972	32	17	17	1	3	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	.176	.176	.176	.353	-8.5	8.9	.166	0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1961	5	4	1	3	0	0	0	25	13	13	11	2	17.7	6.62	2.151	5.60	4.94	125.5	59.4	-0.5
1962	20	19	7	6	0	5	1	108	59	43	63	10	108.7	4.89	1.390	5.22	3.79	97.2	79.8	-0.5
1963	33	21	11	7	0	3	0	122	45	55	61	10	124.0	3.27	1.427	4.43	3.90	111.3	107.4	1.7
1964	32	28	13	9	0	9	2	142	44	55	138	11	210.7	1.88	.935	5.90	2.67	77.0	184.5	6.1
1965	34	34	13	13	0	7	4	203	70	39	125	16	219.0	2.88	1.105	5.14	2.78	86.4	111.9	3.1
1966	37	29	10	13	1	4	2	185	57	53	124	14	211.0	2.43	1.128	5.29	2.96	92.9	131.0	3.7
1967	35	35	19	7	0	13	6	188	59	58	103	13	258.0	2.06	.953	3.59	3.00	97.3	149.7	6.0
1968	35	35	12	14	0	4	1	197	59	70	102	16	223.7	2.37	1.194	4.10	3.37	112.2	126.5	4.0
1969	36	35	13	16	0	7	2	237	99	77	121	20	235.7	3.78	1.332	4.62	3.48	90.9	101.3	2.4
1970	28	26	6	16	0	4	0	198	93	41	77	18	172.3	4.86	1.387	4.02	3.68	94.8	79.8	-0.5
1971	34	18	8	9	2	3	0	150	65	30	82	12	137.3	4.26	1.311	5.37	3.07	86.3	83.3	-0.1
1972	32	6	3	4	1	0	0	74	28	20	58	3	84.0	3.00	1.119	6.21	2.21	76.5	96.3	0.7

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

412

694

618

RBI

127

.1343

OBP

.1594

SLG

.1440

OPS

.3034

Pitching

G (P)

361

290

387th-most career GS

116

474th-most career W

117

364th-most career L

SHO

292nd-most career SHO

2,002

451st-most career IP

SO (P)

1,065

BB allowed

554

ERA

3.106

212th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1903

143rd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.79

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

Date	Game	AB	R	H	3B	RBI	TB
1965-06-08	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	0	3	0	1	3
1968-08-23	MIN @ CWS Gameday	2	0	1	1	1	3
1964-09-27	CWS @ ATH Gameday	2	0	2	0	2	2
1967-09-15	MIN @ CWS Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2
1969-05-01	CWS @ KC Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1964-07-01	TEX @ CWS Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	2	10
1964-09-05	CLE @ CWS Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	4	10
1966-09-16	CWS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	0	9
1964-08-30	CWS @ BAL Gameday	7.0	4	0	0	0	9
1965-07-19	ATH @ CWS Gameday	6.1	5	5	3	2	9

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

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.