Joe Spencer
Birmingham Black Barons 1941–1942; Baltimore Elite Giants 1943; Homestead Grays 1943; Newark Eagles 1943; Homestead Grays 1944; New York Black Yankees 1944; Birmingham Black Barons 1945; New York Cubans 1945–1946; New York Black Yankees 1947–1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .571 | .571 | .714 | 1.286 | 260.2 | 280.5 | .605 | 0.2 |
| 1942 | 9 | 27 | 25 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .280 | .333 | .320 | .653 | 96.8 | 95.0 | .314 | 0.1 |
| 1943 | 25 | 83 | 75 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .301 | .227 | .528 | 54.7 | 41.7 | .270 | -0.2 |
| 1944 | 21 | 67 | 62 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .210 | .258 | .258 | .516 | 44.5 | 38.4 | .250 | -0.2 |
| 1945 | 12 | 30 | 28 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .200 | .250 | .450 | 38.2 | 30.2 | .217 | -0.1 |
| 1946 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -87.8 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1947 | 8 | 31 | 28 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .241 | .214 | .456 | 28.6 | 25.2 | .222 | -0.2 |
| 1948 | 20 | 65 | 58 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .138 | .219 | .138 | .357 | 13.8 | 4.2 | .190 | -0.5 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-05-21 | MEM @ BBB Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 1943-08-19 | NE @ PHS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1942-05-10 | JRC @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1948-07-28 | PHS @ NBY Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1942-06-22 | BBB @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-05-11 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-05-11 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-05-14 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-05-23 | JRC @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-05-25 | JRC @ BBB 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.