Joe Simpson
Los Angeles Dodgers 1975–1978; Seattle Mariners 1979–1982; Kansas City Royals 1983
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 90.4 | 91.3 | .314 | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 23 | 31 | 30 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | .133 | .161 | .167 | .328 | -15.0 | -4.8 | .159 | -0.4 |
| 1977 | 29 | 25 | 23 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | .174 | .240 | .174 | .414 | 14.8 | 14.8 | .207 | -0.3 |
| 1978 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .400 | .400 | .800 | 132.0 | 126.6 | .374 | 0.0 |
| 1979 | 120 | 284 | 265 | 29 | 75 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 11 | 21 | 6 | 3 | .283 | .312 | .347 | .659 | 74.2 | 76.0 | .299 | -0.5 |
| 1980 | 129 | 409 | 365 | 42 | 91 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 34 | 28 | 43 | 17 | 4 | .249 | .302 | .332 | .634 | 70.9 | 72.8 | .291 | -0.4 |
| 1981 | 91 | 312 | 288 | 32 | 64 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 30 | 15 | 41 | 12 | 3 | .222 | .261 | .302 | .564 | 55.3 | 59.4 | .263 | -0.4 |
| 1982 | 105 | 324 | 296 | 39 | 76 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 23 | 22 | 48 | 8 | 14 | .257 | .312 | .351 | .663 | 76.8 | 79.8 | .298 | 0.1 |
| 1983 | 91 | 135 | 119 | 16 | 20 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 21 | 1 | 1 | .168 | .248 | .218 | .467 | 26.1 | 30.3 | .219 | -1.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3.0 | 3.00 | 2.000 | 3.00 | 4.16 | 102.1 | 135.8 | -1.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981-08-30 | SEA @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1980-04-09 | TOR @ SEA Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1979-08-27 | SEA @ CLE Gameday | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1981-05-31 | SEA @ TEX Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1981-09-03 | SEA @ BOS Gameday | 10 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
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.