Joe Price

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 220 lb

BornNovember 29, 1956 · Inglewood, CA, USA

MLB debutJune 14, 1980

Final gameSeptember 16, 1990

Seasons11 (1980–1990)

Cincinnati Reds 1980–1986; San Francisco Giants 1987–1988; Boston Red Sox 1989; San Francisco Giants 1989; Baltimore Orioles 1990

Percentile snapshot

1984 season — qualified pitchers

9.7

4.3

22.6

19.4

SHO

176

84.9

66.7

58.1

129

54.8

37.6

171.7

7.5

ERA

4.19

23.7

WHIP

1.381

26.9

K/9

6.76

89.2

FIP

3.83

41.9

FIP-

102.3

38.7

ERA+

89.2

22.6

sWAR

0.7

22.6

of 94 qualified 1984 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.2

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

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1980	24	42	39	1	5	0	0	0	6	.128	.128	.128	.256	-45.8	-27.8	.120	1.0
1981	41	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.7	-100.0	.000	1.2
1982	59	5	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	85.9	86.1	.311	1.5
1983	21	47	41	0	4	0	0	3	14	.098	.159	.098	.257	-37.7	-28.3	.136	2.8
1984	30	59	48	3	7	1	2	2	16	.146	.180	.167	.347	-14.3	-3.6	.169	0.7
1985	26	16	14	0	0	0	0	1	7	.000	.067	.000	.067	-97.1	-80.1	.050	0.4
1986	25	8	7	0	1	0	2	1	1	.143	.250	.143	.393	13.1	9.9	.210	-0.4
1987	20	6	6	1	1	0	1	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	-18.8	-9.0	.152	0.9
1988	38	11	8	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.111	.000	.111	-64.8	-64.5	.083	0.1
1989	38	3	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	52.1	5.1	.250	0.2
1990	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	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
1980	24	13	7	3	0	2	0	95	44	37	44	10	111.3	3.56	1.186	3.56	4.15	115.3	101.1	1.0
1981	41	0	6	1	4	0	0	42	15	18	41	3	53.7	2.52	1.118	6.88	2.88	81.2	140.8	1.2
1982	59	1	3	4	3	0	0	73	23	32	71	7	72.7	2.85	1.445	8.79	3.53	96.1	129.1	1.5
1983	21	21	10	6	0	5	0	118	46	46	83	12	144.0	2.88	1.139	5.19	3.56	94.6	131.0	2.8
1984	30	30	7	13	0	3	1	176	80	61	129	19	171.7	4.19	1.381	6.76	3.83	102.3	89.2	0.7
1985	26	8	2	2	1	0	0	59	28	23	52	10	64.7	3.90	1.268	7.24	4.09	109.0	96.2	0.4
1986	25	2	1	2	0	0	0	49	25	22	30	5	41.7	5.40	1.704	6.48	4.45	115.6	71.3	-0.4
1987	20	0	2	2	1	0	0	19	10	13	42	5	35.0	2.57	.914	10.80	3.52	90.2	151.9	0.9
1988	38	3	1	6	4	0	0	59	27	27	49	5	61.7	3.94	1.395	7.15	3.53	106.7	84.1	0.1
1989	38	6	3	6	0	0	0	87	43	34	62	11	84.3	4.59	1.435	6.62	4.25	108.1	86.5	0.2
1990	50	0	3	4	0	0	0	62	26	24	54	8	65.3	3.58	1.316	7.44	3.85	100.3	107.1	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

372

200

171

RBI

.1111

OBP

.1556

SLG

.1170

OPS

.2726

Pitching

G (P)

372

SHO

906

SO (P)

657

BB allowed

337

ERA

3.646

WHIP

1.2980

K/9

6.53

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	RBI	TB
1983-04-21	CIN @ HOU Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	2
1984-04-21	CIN @ SF Gameday	2	0	1	1	1	2
1984-04-15	CIN @ HOU Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	1
1986-05-23	CIN @ PIT Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	1
1987-09-27	SF @ ATL Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1984-07-27	CIN @ LAD Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	6	10	0
1983-06-13	LAD @ CIN Gameday	7.0	7	5	5	1	9	2
1985-05-15	CIN @ WSH Gameday	8.0	3	1	1	2	8	0
1984-07-05	CIN @ NYM Gameday	7.0	10	4	3	1	8	1
1982-05-02	STL @ CIN Gameday	6.0	5	1	1	1	8	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.