Joe Sparks
Chicago American Giants 1937; St. Louis Stars 1937; Chicago American Giants 1938–1940
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 45 | 180 | 150 | 20 | 29 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 0 | .193 | .297 | .307 | .603 | 76.1 | 67.7 | .290 | -0.2 |
| 1938 | 20 | 58 | 48 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .208 | .333 | .396 | .729 | 109.3 | 109.5 | .348 | 0.3 |
| 1939 | 33 | 107 | 94 | 12 | 20 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .213 | .282 | .362 | .643 | 85.7 | 86.2 | .305 | 0.3 |
| 1940 | 16 | 48 | 43 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .163 | .250 | .279 | .529 | 64.6 | 59.6 | .267 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2.7 | 16.88 | 3.375 | 13.50 | 4.46 | 99.6 | 26.5 | -0.2 |
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.