Joe Sparma
Detroit Tigers 1964–1969; Montreal Expos 1970
Percentile snapshot
1968 season — qualified pitchers
of 76 qualified 1968 pitchers (min 164 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 23 | 26 | 25 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .160 | .192 | .320 | .512 | 29.7 | 39.1 | .228 | 1.6 |
| 1965 | 30 | 60 | 52 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 0 | 0 | .135 | .179 | .154 | .332 | -14.5 | -4.7 | .162 | 2.3 |
| 1966 | 29 | 25 | 23 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .217 | .217 | .261 | .478 | 25.7 | 35.9 | .215 | -1.1 |
| 1967 | 37 | 90 | 74 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 33 | 0 | 0 | .054 | .091 | .054 | .145 | -76.0 | -56.5 | .077 | 0.2 |
| 1968 | 34 | 67 | 60 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .148 | .150 | .298 | -31.1 | -10.1 | .141 | 0.0 |
| 1969 | 23 | 33 | 29 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .138 | .167 | .138 | .305 | -29.1 | -14.9 | .149 | -0.3 |
| 1970 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .143 | .000 | .143 | -53.0 | -58.2 | .107 | -0.7 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 62 | 28 | 45 | 71 | 4 | 84.0 | 3.00 | 1.274 | 7.61 | 3.10 | 84.5 | 122.3 | 1.6 |
| 1965 | 30 | 28 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 142 | 59 | 75 | 127 | 13 | 167.0 | 3.18 | 1.299 | 6.84 | 3.29 | 94.2 | 109.8 | 2.3 |
| 1966 | 29 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 103 | 54 | 52 | 61 | 14 | 91.7 | 5.30 | 1.691 | 5.99 | 4.89 | 139.7 | 66.0 | -1.1 |
| 1967 | 37 | 37 | 16 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 186 | 91 | 85 | 153 | 20 | 217.7 | 3.76 | 1.245 | 6.33 | 3.49 | 106.1 | 87.4 | 0.2 |
| 1968 | 34 | 31 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 169 | 75 | 77 | 110 | 14 | 182.3 | 3.70 | 1.349 | 5.43 | 3.40 | 112.2 | 81.8 | 0.0 |
| 1969 | 23 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 78 | 49 | 77 | 41 | 5 | 92.7 | 4.76 | 1.673 | 3.98 | 4.70 | 126.1 | 78.4 | -0.3 |
| 1970 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 23 | 25 | 23 | 7 | 29.3 | 7.06 | 2.011 | 7.06 | 7.14 | 174.2 | 58.1 | -0.7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966-05-15 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1964-07-05 | TEX @ DET Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1964-08-13 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1965-06-11 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1969-07-03 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965-09-06 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 8.0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 1 |
| 1964-07-05 | TEX @ DET Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| 1967-05-17 | DET @ TEX Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
| 1965-05-27 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
| 1967-07-07 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 8.2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 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.