MLB / Players

Joe Murphy

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 160 lb
BornSeptember 7, 1866 · St. Louis, MO, USA
MLB debutApril 28, 1886
Final gameAugust 19, 1887
Seasons2 (1886–1887)

Cincinnati Red Stockings 1886; St. Louis Browns 1886; St. Louis Maroons 1886; St. Louis Browns 1887

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
-1.8
2

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
18861035350310010810.086.086.114.200-7.2-39.7.091-1.8
18871662100000000.167.167.167.33316.3-7.5.1570.0

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1886101037090100584025386.06.071.6282.624.41130.755.7-1.8
188711100101354509.05.001.8895.003.6785.685.80.0

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

G
11
PA
41
AB
41
R
2
H
4
2B
1
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
1
BB
0
SO
8
SB
1
BA
.0976
OBP
.0976
SLG
.1220
OPS
.2196

Pitching

G (P)
11
GS
11
W
4
L
7
SV
0
CG
10
SHO
0
IP
95
SO (P)
30
BB allowed
44
ERA
5.968
WHIP
1.6526
K/9
2.84

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.