Joe Pepitone

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornOctober 9, 1940 · Brooklyn, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 10, 1962

Final gameMay 25, 1973

Seasons12 (1962–1973)

New York Yankees 1962–1969; Chicago Cubs 1970; Houston Astros 1970; Chicago Cubs 1971–1972; Atlanta Braves 1973; Chicago Cubs 1973

Percentile snapshot

1970 season — qualified batters

131

3.5

533

13.3

492

47.8

127

14.2

18.6

82.3

74.3

RBI

58.4

10.6

90.3

42.5

.258

27.4

OBP

.304

12.4

SLG

.482

73.5

OPS

.786

48.7

wRC+

99.0

30.1

OPS+

105.7

35.4

wOBA

.342

33.6

sWAR

1.1

19.5

of 114 qualified 1970 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

101.4

44.2

OPS+

105.8

53.7

sWAR

10.9

87.8

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1962	63	141	138	14	33	3	2	7	17	3	21	1	1	.239	.255	.442	.697	83.4	88.3	.304	-0.1
1963	157	615	580	79	157	16	3	27	89	23	63	3	5	.271	.304	.448	.752	109.3	111.0	.331	1.4
1964	160	647	613	71	154	12	3	28	100	24	63	2	1	.251	.281	.418	.698	85.9	91.9	.304	-0.3
1965	143	580	531	51	131	18	3	18	62	43	59	4	2	.247	.305	.394	.699	94.6	98.9	.311	0.3
1966	152	621	585	85	149	21	4	31	83	29	58	4	3	.255	.290	.463	.753	113.0	116.5	.329	2.0
1967	133	545	501	45	126	18	3	13	64	34	62	1	3	.251	.301	.377	.678	101.2	103.1	.310	2.1
1968	108	421	380	41	93	9	3	15	56	37	45	8	2	.245	.311	.403	.714	115.2	118.9	.323	2.2
1969	135	546	513	49	124	16	3	27	70	30	42	8	6	.242	.284	.442	.726	96.8	105.6	.320	0.4
1970	131	533	492	82	127	18	7	26	79	33	43	5	4	.258	.304	.482	.786	99.0	105.7	.342	1.1
1971	115	460	427	50	131	19	4	16	61	24	41	1	2	.307	.347	.482	.830	120.9	121.0	.371	1.8
1972	66	233	214	23	56	5	0	8	21	13	22	1	2	.262	.309	.397	.706	86.7	92.1	.318	-0.2
1973	34	134	123	16	34	3	0	3	19	9	7	3	1	.276	.328	.374	.702	91.4	89.2	.328	0.0

Career totals

1,397

5,476

5,097

606

1,315

158

219

327th-most career HR

RBI

721

302

526

.2580

OBP

.3012

SLG

.4316

OPS

.7328

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
1964-05-17	ATH @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	4	0	10
1963-04-09	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	2	2	0	10
1970-04-11	ATL @ HOU Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	2	1	9
1969-04-11	NYY @ DET Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	3	0	8
1971-06-30	LAD @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	3	0	8

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

3× Gold Glove3× 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.