MLB / Players

Joe Sambito

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornJune 28, 1952 · Brooklyn, NY, USA

MLB debutJuly 20, 1976

Final gameOctober 3, 1987

Seasons11 (1976–1987)

Houston Astros 1976–1982; Houston Astros 1984; New York Mets 1985; Boston Red Sox 1986–1987

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

10.3

87.3

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

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1976	20	12	9	1	2	0	1	3	2	.222	.417	.222	.639	119.7	93.2	.347	0.5
1977	54	13	13	1	2	0	1	0	6	.154	.154	.154	.308	-23.4	-13.5	.141	2.2
1978	62	8	6	1	1	0	0	1	2	.167	.286	.167	.452	45.3	34.6	.241	1.2
1979	63	12	7	1	2	1	2	5	0	.286	.583	.429	1.012	218.2	190.1	.500	3.1
1980	64	10	9	0	0	0	0	1	5	.000	.100	.000	.100	-69.9	-68.5	.075	2.1
1981	49	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.1	-100.0	.000	1.8
1982	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.6	-100.0	.000	0.5
1984	32	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.6	-100.0	.000	0.7
1985	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.1
1986	53	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1987	47	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1976	20	4	3	2	1	1	1	45	21	14	26	4	53.3	3.54	1.106	4.39	3.43	105.7	91.7	0.5
1977	54	1	5	5	7	0	0	77	23	24	67	6	89.0	2.33	1.135	6.78	2.91	80.6	155.4	2.2
1978	62	0	4	9	11	0	0	85	30	32	96	5	88.0	3.07	1.330	9.82	2.27	68.1	108.7	1.2
1979	63	0	8	7	22	0	0	80	18	23	83	8	91.3	1.77	1.128	8.18	2.90	82.1	199.1	3.1
1980	64	0	8	4	17	0	0	65	22	22	75	3	90.3	2.19	.963	7.47	2.31	69.0	153.1	2.1
1981	49	0	5	5	10	0	0	43	13	22	41	4	63.7	1.84	1.021	5.80	3.33	99.6	182.0	1.8
1982	9	0	0	0	4	0	0	7	1	2	7	0	12.7	0.71	.711	4.97	2.12	62.6	475.9	0.5
1984	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	39	16	16	26	5	47.7	3.02	1.154	4.91	4.07	120.5	111.9	0.7
1985	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	21	15	8	3	1	10.7	12.66	2.719	2.53	5.52	158.6	27.5	-1.1
1986	53	0	2	0	12	0	0	54	24	16	30	4	44.7	4.84	1.567	6.04	3.82	91.4	86.5	0.1
1987	47	0	2	6	0	0	0	46	29	16	35	8	37.7	6.93	1.646	8.36	5.05	111.3	65.5	-0.6

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

462

RBI

.1346

OBP

.2742

SLG

.1538

OPS

.4280

Pitching

G (P)

461

215th-most career SV

SHO

629

SO (P)

489

BB allowed

195

ERA

3.033

WHIP

1.2035

K/9

7.00

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	BB	TB
1979-05-01	HOU @ STL Gameday	1	0	1	1	1	0	2
1976-08-29	STL @ HOU Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	1
1977-07-30	CHC @ HOU Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	0	1
1979-08-26	HOU @ PHI Gameday	1	0	1	0	1	0	1
1976-09-07	HOU @ CIN Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1976-09-07	HOU @ CIN Gameday	6.0	7	5	5	2	5	2
1977-08-26	WSH @ HOU Gameday	4.0	4	0	0	0	5	0
1978-05-13	HOU @ NYM Gameday	4.0	1	0	0	2	5	0
1979-04-26	HOU @ CHC Gameday	4.0	4	1	1	0	5	1
1987-06-19	NYY @ BOS Gameday	3.1	3	3	3	1	5	1

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

1× 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.