Joe Royal
Jacksonville Red Caps 1938; Cleveland Bears 1939; Jacksonville Red Caps 1942; New York Black Yankees 1944
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 14 | 67 | 63 | 10 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | .238 | .284 | .317 | .601 | 76.0 | 72.9 | .286 | -0.3 |
| 1939 | 6 | 19 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .125 | .222 | .125 | .347 | 18.5 | 2.3 | .190 | -0.1 |
| 1942 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .333 | .250 | .583 | 83.9 | 75.1 | .292 | 0.0 |
| 1944 | 8 | 22 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .095 | .136 | .095 | .232 | -24.7 | -37.2 | .121 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6.3 | 9.95 | 2.368 | 1.42 | 7.14 | 167.6 | 42.8 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-05-23 | ATL @ JRC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 1938-07-01 | JRC @ ATL Gameday | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| 1938-05-28 | JRC @ ATL Gameday | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1938-06-22 | MEM @ JRC Gameday | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1942-05-31 | JRC @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-07-02 | JRC @ ATL Gameday | 6.1 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 1938-05-23 | ATL @ JRC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-24 | ATL @ JRC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-05-28 | JRC @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-06-04 | JRC @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.