Joe Presko
St. Louis Cardinals 1951–1954; Detroit Tigers 1957–1958
Percentile snapshot
1953 season — qualified pitchers
of 59 qualified 1953 pitchers (min 157 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 15 | 37 | 37 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .162 | .162 | .189 | .351 | -23.9 | -5.7 | .158 | 1.3 |
| 1952 | 28 | 48 | 43 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .093 | .133 | .093 | .226 | -52.4 | -36.1 | .115 | 0.6 |
| 1953 | 35 | 67 | 59 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .220 | .270 | .237 | .507 | 29.7 | 33.5 | .238 | 0.5 |
| 1954 | 38 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 17.3 | 30.5 | .227 | -1.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -134.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.4 |
| 1958 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | — | 381.2 | — | .742 | 0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 86 | 34 | 20 | 38 | 9 | 88.7 | 3.45 | 1.195 | 3.86 | 3.59 | 90.8 | 114.5 | 1.3 |
| 1952 | 28 | 18 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 140 | 66 | 57 | 63 | 15 | 146.7 | 4.05 | 1.343 | 3.87 | 4.07 | 109.7 | 91.7 | 0.6 |
| 1953 | 34 | 25 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 165 | 90 | 65 | 56 | 19 | 161.7 | 5.01 | 1.423 | 3.12 | 4.75 | 110.6 | 85.7 | 0.5 |
| 1954 | 37 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 97 | 55 | 41 | 36 | 14 | 71.7 | 6.91 | 1.926 | 4.52 | 5.88 | 142.3 | 59.8 | -1.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 11.0 | 1.64 | 1.273 | 2.45 | 3.22 | 84.0 | 234.1 | 0.4 |
| 1958 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 10.7 | 3.38 | 1.313 | 5.06 | 1.60 | 40.0 | 118.5 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-06-14 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1951-07-18 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1953-05-25 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1954-08-29 | SF @ STL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1952-05-06 | SF @ STL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-05-30 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 7.2 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 2 |
| 1952-08-14 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 9.2 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 2 |
| 1951-05-24 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1953-07-04 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 7.2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 1953-05-20 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 5.1 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 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.