Joe McEwing
St. Louis Cardinals 1998–1999; New York Mets 2000–2004; Kansas City Royals 2005; Houston Astros 2006
Percentile snapshot
1999 season — qualified batters
of 158 qualified 1999 batters (min 499 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 10 | 23 | 20 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | .200 | .273 | .250 | .523 | 39.8 | 39.6 | .249 | -0.1 |
| 1999 | 152 | 574 | 513 | 65 | 141 | 28 | 4 | 9 | 44 | 41 | 87 | 7 | 4 | .275 | .333 | .398 | .730 | 80.9 | 84.0 | .322 | 0.4 |
| 2000 | 87 | 169 | 153 | 20 | 34 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 5 | 29 | 3 | 1 | .222 | .248 | .366 | .614 | 51.8 | 56.5 | .268 | -0.6 |
| 2001 | 116 | 319 | 283 | 41 | 80 | 17 | 3 | 8 | 30 | 17 | 57 | 8 | 5 | .283 | .342 | .449 | .791 | 109.3 | 107.7 | .347 | 1.1 |
| 2002 | 105 | 214 | 196 | 22 | 39 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 26 | 9 | 50 | 4 | 4 | .199 | .242 | .296 | .538 | 37.9 | 43.3 | .244 | -1.1 |
| 2003 | 119 | 313 | 278 | 31 | 67 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 25 | 57 | 3 | 0 | .241 | .309 | .291 | .601 | 58.4 | 60.4 | .275 | -0.4 |
| 2004 | 75 | 154 | 138 | 17 | 35 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 32 | 4 | 1 | .254 | .297 | .312 | .609 | 50.0 | 59.6 | .264 | -0.4 |
| 2005 | 83 | 191 | 180 | 16 | 43 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 35 | 4 | 4 | .239 | .263 | .294 | .558 | 45.3 | 48.7 | .250 | -0.8 |
| 2006 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124.3 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-05-21 | AZ @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 1999-07-23 | STL @ COL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 2001-04-28 | NYM @ STL Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 2001-09-18 | NYM @ PIT Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 1999-05-26 | SF @ STL Gameday | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
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.