Joe Start

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 165 lb

BornOctober 14, 1842 · New York, NY, USA

MLB debutMay 18, 1871

Final gameJuly 9, 1886

Seasons16 (1871–1886)

New York Mutuals 1871–1876; Hartford Dark Blues 1877; Chicago White Stockings 1878; Providence Grays 1879–1885; Washington Nationals 1886

Percentile snapshot

1885 season — qualified batters

101

35.8

413

24.2

374

22.1

11.6

103

38.9

21.1

17.9

RBI

84.2

45.3

.275

65.3

OBP

.344

77.9

SLG

.326

35.8

OPS

.670

62.1

wRC+

115.6

66.3

OPS+

117.2

63.2

wOBA

.319

62.1

sWAR

1.5

38.9

of 96 qualified 1885 batters (min 341 PA) · 2 stats not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

112.7

66.8

OPS+

119.2

sWAR

17.7

92.5

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
1871	33	164	161	35	58	5	1	1	34	3	0	4	2	.360	.372	.422	.794	114.0	127.4	.356	0.6
1872	54	277	277	60	75	5	0	0	48	0	0	3	3	.271	.271	.289	.560	85.3	72.3	.258	0.0
1873	53	256	252	42	67	8	3	1	29	4	0	1	0	.266	.277	.333	.611	88.5	79.7	.279	0.1
1874	63	310	306	67	96	13	3	2	46	4	0	5	0	.314	.323	.395	.718	116.2	128.3	.327	1.3
1875	69	317	314	58	90	10	5	4	30	3	0	1	4	.287	.293	.389	.682	119.9	133.4	.309	1.4
1876	56	265	264	40	73	6	0	0	21	1	2	0	0	.277	.279	.299	.578	94.3	92.2	.268	0.3
1877	60	277	271	55	90	3	6	1	21	6	2	0	0	.332	.347	.399	.745	124.3	133.3	.343	1.3
1878	61	287	285	58	100	12	5	1	27	2	3	0	0	.351	.355	.439	.794	142.2	159.4	.365	2.1
1879	66	324	317	70	101	11	5	2	37	7	4	0	0	.319	.333	.404	.737	129.7	141.0	.331	1.8
1880	82	358	345	53	96	14	6	0	27	13	20	0	0	.278	.304	.354	.658	116.1	120.9	.299	1.3
1881	79	357	348	56	114	12	6	0	29	9	7	0	0	.328	.345	.397	.741	123.5	130.8	.339	1.7
1882	82	367	356	58	117	8	10	0	48	11	7	0	0	.329	.349	.407	.756	130.0	141.7	.338	2.1
1883	87	392	370	63	105	16	7	1	57	22	16	0	0	.284	.324	.373	.697	107.9	109.7	.312	1.2
1884	93	416	381	80	105	10	5	2	32	35	25	0	0	.276	.337	.344	.680	112.4	114.8	.315	1.4
1885	101	413	374	47	103	11	4	0	41	39	10	0	0	.275	.344	.326	.670	115.6	117.2	.319	1.5
1886	31	127	122	10	27	4	1	0	17	5	13	4	0	.221	.252	.270	.522	67.4	58.6	.244	-0.3

Career totals

1,070

4,907

4,743

852

1,417

148

437th-most career 3B

RBI

544

164

109

.2988

241st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3222

SLG

.3677

OPS

.6899

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.