Joe Ostrowski
St. Louis Browns 1948–1949; New York Yankees 1950; St. Louis Browns 1950; New York Yankees 1951–1952
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 26 | 25 | 18 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .364 | .222 | .586 | 65.1 | 54.3 | .311 | -0.4 |
| 1949 | 40 | 48 | 37 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .189 | .375 | .243 | .618 | 73.4 | 60.2 | .331 | 1.2 |
| 1950 | 30 | 34 | 27 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .185 | .333 | .296 | .630 | 65.0 | 59.1 | .314 | 2.2 |
| 1951 | 34 | 31 | 28 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .107 | .194 | .107 | .301 | -15.7 | -15.0 | .164 | 1.2 |
| 1952 | 20 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -129.0 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.8 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 26 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 108 | 52 | 17 | 20 | 6 | 78.3 | 5.97 | 1.596 | 2.30 | 3.88 | 86.5 | 75.2 | -0.4 |
| 1949 | 40 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 185 | 75 | 27 | 34 | 16 | 141.0 | 4.79 | 1.504 | 2.17 | 4.06 | 90.9 | 93.3 | 1.2 |
| 1950 | 30 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 107 | 41 | 22 | 30 | 13 | 101.0 | 3.65 | 1.277 | 2.67 | 4.45 | 97.6 | 127.4 | 2.2 |
| 1951 | 34 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 103 | 37 | 18 | 30 | 4 | 95.3 | 3.49 | 1.269 | 2.83 | 3.09 | 79.0 | 112.1 | 1.2 |
| 1952 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 25 | 14 | 17 | 5 | 40.0 | 5.63 | 1.750 | 3.83 | 4.26 | 125.1 | 60.6 | -0.8 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-06-01 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 1948-08-12 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1949-09-20 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1950-05-04 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1949-07-01 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-06-14 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 1950-06-22 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 8.0 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 1950-06-01 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 10.0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 1951-08-01 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 6.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1952-06-25 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 3.2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 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.