Joe Medwick

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 187 lb

BornNovember 24, 1911 · Carteret, NJ, USA

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1932

Final gameJuly 25, 1948

Seasons17 (1932–1948)

St. Louis Cardinals 1932–1939; Brooklyn Dodgers 1940; St. Louis Cardinals 1940; Brooklyn Dodgers 1941–1943; New York Giants 1943–1944; Boston Braves 1945; New York Giants 1945; Brooklyn Dodgers 1946; St. Louis Cardinals 1947–1948

Percentile snapshot

1944 season — qualified batters

128

32.7

535

490

42.7

52.7

165

79.1

53.6

22.7

61.8

RBI

83.6

47.3

60.9

11.8

.337

91.8

OBP

.386

74.5

SLG

.441

69.1

OPS

.826

70.9

wRC+

132.4

74.5

OPS+

130.6

72.7

wOBA

.385

70.9

sWAR

3.2

73.6

of 111 qualified 1944 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

133.9

93.3

OPS+

134.3

93.2

sWAR

50.6

98.9

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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
1932	26	109	106	13	37	12	1	2	12	2	10	3	.349	.367	.538	.905	137.7	137.5	.397	0.9
1933	148	626	595	92	182	40	10	18	98	26	56	5	.306	.337	.497	.835	131.3	131.5	.377	3.7
1934	149	646	620	110	198	40	18	18	106	21	83	3	.319	.343	.529	.872	123.5	125.5	.384	3.3
1935	154	670	634	132	224	46	13	23	126	30	59	4	.353	.386	.576	.962	151.7	152.6	.425	5.8
1936	155	677	636	115	223	64	13	18	138	34	33	3	.351	.387	.577	.964	155.7	157.5	.430	6.1
1937	156	677	633	111	237	56	10	31	154	41	50	4	.374	.414	.641	1.056	180.2	180.4	.467	8.3
1938	146	634	590	100	190	47	8	21	122	42	41	0	.322	.369	.536	.905	140.9	140.9	.406	4.5
1939	150	667	606	98	201	48	8	14	117	45	44	6	.332	.380	.507	.886	131.5	130.6	.401	4.0
1940	143	616	581	83	175	30	12	17	86	32	36	2	.301	.341	.482	.823	119.1	120.9	.370	2.7
1941	133	579	538	100	171	33	10	18	88	38	35	2	.318	.364	.517	.881	142.7	144.3	.402	4.2
1942	142	587	553	69	166	37	4	4	96	32	25	2	.300	.338	.403	.742	114.4	116.2	.349	2.2
1943	126	520	497	54	138	30	3	5	70	19	22	1	.278	.306	.380	.686	90.2	95.5	.322	0.4
1944	128	535	490	64	165	24	3	7	85	38	24	2	.337	.386	.441	.826	132.4	130.6	.385	3.2
1945	92	328	310	31	90	17	0	3	37	14	14	5	.290	.323	.374	.697	88.8	92.0	.328	0.2
1946	41	85	77	7	24	4	0	2	18	6	5	0	.312	.369	.442	.811	130.4	129.3	.381	0.5
1947	75	166	150	19	46	12	0	4	28	16	12	0	.307	.373	.467	.840	119.8	119.5	.383	0.7
1948	20	20	19	0	4	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	.211	.250	.211	.461	15.9	23.8	.222	-0.1

Career totals

1,984

274th-most career G

8,142

272nd-most career PA

7,635

197th-most career AB

1,198

187th-most career R

2,471

106th-most career H

540

40th-most career 2B

113

119th-most career 3B

205

367th-most career HR

RBI

1,383

83rd-most career RBI

437

551

.3236

56th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3623

425th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5045

110th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8668

136th-highest career OPS

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
1935-09-28	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	2	5	0	12
1937-05-12	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	4	4	2	0	2	5	1	12
1936-05-17	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	1	2	0	11
1934-05-30	STL @ CIN Gameday	5	3	5	1	2	0	1	0	10
1935-06-29	STL @ CIN Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	3	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1932-04-12	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-13	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-14	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-15	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-17	CHC @ STL 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1968 (BBWAA)

1× Most Valuable Player1× Triple Crown10× 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.