Joe Lafata
New York Giants 1947–1949
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 62 | 111 | 95 | 13 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 15 | 18 | 1 | 0 | .221 | .333 | .295 | .628 | 70.6 | 66.7 | .307 | -0.2 |
| 1948 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -129.9 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1949 | 64 | 151 | 140 | 18 | 33 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 9 | 23 | 1 | 0 | .236 | .282 | .343 | .625 | 62.3 | 67.1 | .286 | -0.6 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-06-23 | SF @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1949-06-21 | SF @ STL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 1949-09-18 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1949-09-21 | SF @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1947-05-30 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-04-15 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-17 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-18 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-19 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-20 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.