MLB / Players

Joe Sewell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 6 in · 155 lb

BornOctober 9, 1898 · Titus, AL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1920

Final gameSeptember 24, 1933

Seasons14 (1920–1933)

Cleveland Indians 1920–1930; New York Yankees 1931–1933

Percentile snapshot

1933 season — qualified batters

135

606

73.2

524

63.8

81.2

143

59.7

40.3

9.4

35.6

RBI

52.3

91.3

65.8

22.1

26.8

.273

36.9

OBP

.361

65.8

SLG

.323

13.4

OPS

.683

30.9

wRC+

93.2

38.3

OPS+

88.2

29.5

wOBA

.331

36.9

sWAR

1.6

of 150 qualified 1933 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

110.8

63.2

OPS+

108.5

59.3

sWAR

45.1

98.4

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1920	22	83	70	14	23	4	1	0	12	9	4	1	0	.329	.413	.414	.827	122.6	118.6	.394	0.6
1921	154	683	572	101	182	36	12	4	93	80	17	7	6	.318	.412	.444	.856	120.8	117.6	.401	4.7
1922	153	656	558	80	167	28	7	2	83	73	20	10	12	.299	.386	.385	.771	104.7	100.9	.367	3.2
1923	153	682	553	98	195	41	10	3	109	98	12	9	6	.353	.456	.479	.935	150.1	145.3	.442	7.2
1924	153	685	594	99	188	45	5	4	106	67	13	3	3	.316	.388	.429	.817	108.7	107.9	.386	3.7
1925	155	699	608	78	204	37	7	1	98	64	4	7	6	.336	.402	.424	.827	111.5	109.6	.390	3.9
1926	154	672	578	91	187	41	5	4	85	65	6	17	7	.324	.399	.433	.832	118.9	116.8	.392	4.5
1927	153	652	569	83	180	48	5	1	92	51	7	3	16	.316	.382	.424	.805	108.9	108.2	.377	3.6
1928	155	678	588	79	190	40	2	4	70	58	9	7	1	.323	.391	.418	.809	113.4	111.2	.377	4.0
1929	152	672	578	90	182	38	3	7	73	48	4	6	6	.315	.372	.427	.800	101.9	101.6	.368	2.5
1930	109	414	353	44	102	17	6	0	48	41	3	1	4	.289	.374	.371	.745	90.0	86.3	.348	1.0
1931	130	571	484	102	146	22	1	6	64	61	8	1	1	.302	.390	.388	.778	114.1	110.7	.368	3.0
1932	125	576	503	95	137	21	3	11	68	56	3	0	2	.272	.349	.392	.740	92.8	91.9	.343	1.5
1933	135	606	524	87	143	18	1	2	54	71	4	2	2	.273	.361	.323	.683	93.2	88.2	.331	1.6

Career totals

1,903

327th-most career G

8,329

225th-most career PA

7,132

284th-most career AB

1,141

232nd-most career R

2,226

181st-most career H

436

136th-most career 2B

419th-most career 3B

RBI

1,055

261st-most career RBI

842

232nd-most career BB

114

.3121

98th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3909

113th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4129

OPS

.8038

465th-highest career OPS

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	TB
1921-04-14	CLE @ BAL Gameday	5	3	3	1	1	1	4	9
1932-06-29	MIN @ NYY Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	2	9
1921-07-21	NYY @ CLE Gameday	6	2	5	3	0	0	2	8
1932-07-24	ATH @ NYY Gameday	5	2	5	0	0	1	1	8
1924-05-11	ATH @ CLE Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	6	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1920-04-14	BAL @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-17	BAL @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-18	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-19	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-20	DET @ CLE 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1977 (Veterans)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.