MLB / Players

Joe Knight

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornSeptember 28, 1859 · Port Stanley, ON, CAN

MLB debutMay 16, 1884

Final gameOctober 3, 1890

Seasons2 (1884–1890)

Philadelphia Quakers 1884; Cincinnati Reds 1890

Percentile snapshot

1890 season — qualified batters

127

60.1

523

33.1

481

39.2

20.3

150

70.3

80.4

41.2

58.1

RBI

56.8

34.5

20.3

.312

81.8

OBP

.367

60.1

SLG

.424

74.3

OPS

.791

wRC+

122.0

77.7

OPS+

130.1

78.4

wOBA

.379

68.9

sWAR

2.6

62.2

of 149 qualified 1890 batters (min 415 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.0

69.8

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
1884	6	24	24	2	6	3	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	.250	.250	.375	.625	93.1	94.0	.277	-0.7
1890	127	523	481	67	150	26	8	4	67	38	31	17	0	.312	.367	.424	.791	122.0	130.1	.379	2.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1884	6	6	2	4	0	6	0	66	31	21	8	2	51.0	5.47	1.706	1.41	4.29	144.0	54.4	-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

133

547

505

156

RBI

.3089

OBP

.3620

SLG

.4218

OPS

.7838

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

5.471

WHIP

1.7059

K/9

1.41

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.