MLB / Players

Joe Mays

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 160 lb

BornDecember 10, 1975 · Flint, MI, USA

MLB debutApril 7, 1999

Final gameJuly 22, 2006

Seasons7 (1999–2006)

Minnesota Twins 1999–2003; Minnesota Twins 2005; Cincinnati Reds 2006; Kansas City Royals 2006

Percentile snapshot

2001 season — qualified pitchers

68.7

81.9

18.1

84.3

SHO

83.1

205

44.6

73.5

49.4

123

31.3

233.7

ERA

3.16

90.4

WHIP

1.151

89.2

K/9

4.74

7.2

FIP

4.32

48.2

FIP-

95.0

51.8

ERA+

144.1

97.6

sWAR

5.8

96.4

of 84 qualified 2001 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.3

81.9

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1999	49	5	3	0	0	0	0	2	1	.000	.400	.000	.400	63.5	13.4	.295	2.9
2000	31	6	5	1	2	1	0	0	2	.400	.400	.600	1.000	148.9	145.7	.432	0.9
2001	34	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.3	-100.0	.000	5.8
2002	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
2003	31	5	3	0	1	0	0	1	1	.333	.500	.333	.833	146.3	126.3	.406	-1.1
2005	31	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	77.3	78.8	.298	-0.6
2006	13	10	9	0	2	1	3	0	4	.222	.222	.333	.556	27.6	37.1	.240	-1.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1999	49	20	6	11	2	1	179	83	67	115	24	171.0	4.37	1.439	6.05	4.89	97.6	114.8	2.9
2000	31	28	7	15	2	1	193	99	67	102	20	160.3	5.56	1.622	5.73	4.86	95.8	91.4	0.9
2001	34	34	17	13	4	2	205	82	64	123	25	233.7	3.16	1.151	4.74	4.32	95.0	144.1	5.8
2002	17	17	4	8	1	1	113	57	25	38	14	95.3	5.38	1.448	3.59	5.02	112.3	83.1	0.0
2003	31	21	8	8	0	0	159	91	39	50	21	130.0	6.30	1.523	3.46	5.42	118.3	72.7	-1.1
2005	31	26	6	10	1	1	203	98	41	59	23	156.0	5.65	1.564	3.40	5.06	115.5	77.4	-0.6
2006	13	10	0	5	0	0	78	49	26	25	11	50.7	8.70	2.053	4.44	6.52	139.6	53.7	-1.7

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

206

RBI

.2500

OBP

.3333

SLG

.3333

OPS

.6666

Pitching

G (P)

206

156

SHO

997

SO (P)

512

BB allowed

329

ERA

5.046

WHIP

1.4634

K/9

4.62

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	RBI	BB	TB
2006-07-01	CLE @ CIN Gameday	2	0	1	1	3	0	2
2000-07-07	MIN @ PIT Gameday	1	1	1	1	0	0	2
2000-06-02	MIN @ CIN Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	0	1
2003-06-03	MIN @ SF Gameday	1	0	1	0	0	1	1
2005-06-10	MIN @ LAD Gameday	3	0	1	0	0	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1999-09-24	CWS @ MIN Gameday	8.0	2	2	2	1	9	0
2001-08-20	TOR @ MIN Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	1	8	1
1999-08-12	TOR @ MIN Gameday	7.0	4	0	0	2	8	0
2000-06-07	MIN @ HOU Gameday	6.0	4	0	0	1	8	0
1999-07-17	MIN @ CHC Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	3	7	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.

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.