MLB / Players

Joe Pignatano

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb
BornAugust 4, 1929 · Brooklyn, NY, USA
MLB debutApril 28, 1957
Final gameSeptember 30, 1962
Seasons6 (1957–1962)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1957; Los Angeles Dodgers 1958–1960; Kansas City Athletics 1961; New York Mets 1962; San Francisco Giants 1962

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
3.1
74.3

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
1957815140310010500.214.214.286.50018.029.6.2210.0
195863163142183140917162641.218.306.437.74388.789.2.3290.8
195952166139173341111211510.237.346.302.64874.370.6.3060.4
1960581069011214029151711.233.343.344.68787.885.9.3170.5
1961922922433159103422364222.243.347.358.70589.286.7.3281.3
1962346761414200261100.230.299.262.56152.049.5.2690.1

Career totals

G
307
PA
809
AB
689
R
81
H
161
2B
25
3B
4
HR
16
RBI
62
BB
94
SO
116
SB
8
BA
.2337
OBP
.3317
SLG
.3512
OPS
.6829

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1961-05-31ATH @ DET Gameday424101308
1960-07-29ATL @ LAD Gameday423101207
1959-05-20CIN @ LAD Gameday413001306
1961-06-08ATH @ NYY Gameday503010105
1958-08-23ATL @ LAD Gameday212001215

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.