MLB / Players

Joe Kappel

HandednessBats Right
Listed at5 ft 10 in · 165 lb
BornApril 27, 1857 · Philadelphia, PA, USA
MLB debutMay 26, 1884
Final gameSeptember 8, 1890
Seasons2 (1884–1890)

Philadelphia Quakers 1884; Philadelphia Athletics 1890

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
0.2
52.1

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
1884415151100000200.067.067.067.133-18.3-57.9.060-0.2
189056229208295081122200120.240.310.303.61384.480.2.3070.4

Career totals

G
60
PA
244
AB
223
R
30
H
51
2B
8
3B
1
HR
1
RBI
22
BB
20
SO
2
SB
12
BA
.2287
OBP
.2951
SLG
.2870
OPS
.5821

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.