Joe Lake

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornJanuary 6, 1881 · Brooklyn, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 21, 1908

Final gameAugust 25, 1913

Seasons6 (1908–1913)

New York Highlanders 1908–1909; St. Louis Browns 1910–1911; Detroit Tigers 1912; St. Louis Browns 1912; Detroit Tigers 1913

Percentile snapshot

1912 season — qualified pitchers

55.2

34.5

37.9

50.6

SHO

260

21.8

28.7

62.1

114

74.7

50.6

219.7

55.2

ERA

3.44

29.9

WHIP

1.434

20.7

K/9

4.67

72.4

FIP

2.90

81.6

FIP-

85.7

82.8

ERA+

98.2

sWAR

1.5

26.4

of 88 qualified 1912 pitchers (min 157 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

98.9

32.9

sWAR

12.9

89.6

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1908	45	114	112	6	21	4	1	1	8	1	26	2	.188	.195	.268	.463	37.3	47.2	.220	0.2
1909	31	83	81	10	14	3	2	0	8	2	19	0	.173	.193	.259	.452	30.2	40.7	.218	4.1
1910	37	93	91	7	21	2	1	0	4	1	21	0	.231	.247	.275	.522	59.1	65.7	.253	3.5
1911	30	82	80	7	21	2	1	0	10	1	15	0	.263	.272	.313	.584	58.5	63.3	.277	2.3
1912	37	85	82	5	12	0	0	1	4	1	25	0	.146	.157	.183	.340	-9.2	-3.7	.163	1.5
1913	28	47	45	4	12	3	1	1	4	1	10	1	.267	.283	.444	.727	102.2	111.8	.340	1.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1908	38	27	9	22	0	19	2	252	95	77	118	6	269.3	3.17	1.222	3.94	2.59	104.4	78.1	0.2
1909	31	26	14	11	1	17	3	180	45	59	117	2	215.3	1.88	1.110	4.89	2.21	87.4	134.6	4.1
1910	35	29	11	17	2	24	1	243	64	77	141	2	261.3	2.20	1.224	4.86	2.16	88.4	111.1	3.5
1911	30	25	10	15	0	14	2	245	79	40	69	3	215.3	3.30	1.324	2.88	3.07	92.6	100.3	2.3
1912	37	20	10	18	1	15	0	260	84	55	114	3	219.7	3.44	1.434	4.67	2.90	85.7	98.2	1.5
1913	28	12	8	7	1	6	0	149	50	24	35	3	137.0	3.28	1.263	2.30	2.79	94.9	89.4	1.2

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

208

504

491

101

RBI

116

.2057

OBP

.2184

SLG

.2770

OPS

.4954

Pitching

G (P)

199

139

443rd-most career CG

SHO

1,318

SO (P)

594

BB allowed

332

ERA

2.847

123rd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2602

388th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.06

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	TB
1908-06-27	BOS @ NYY Gameday	5	1	3	2	0	0	2	5
1913-08-15	MIN @ DET Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	1	5
1909-07-14	NYY @ CWS Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	0	1	4
1908-08-31	ATH @ NYY Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	0	0	4
1912-07-31	MIN @ DET Gameday	3	1	1	0	0	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	BB	SO
1908-07-11	CLE @ NYY Gameday	9.0	8	2	2	9
1910-07-18	BAL @ NYY Gameday	9.0	10	3	2	9
1910-08-04	MIN @ BAL Gameday	9.0	3	0	2	9
1909-09-16	CLE @ NYY Gameday	9.0	2	1	0	8
1909-09-29	BAL @ NYY Gameday	9.0	7	2	0	8

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.