Joe Strain
San Francisco Giants 1979–1980; Chicago Cubs 1981
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 67 | 285 | 257 | 27 | 62 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 13 | 21 | 8 | 4 | .241 | .285 | .292 | .577 | 63.2 | 62.9 | .272 | -0.2 |
| 1980 | 77 | 207 | 189 | 26 | 54 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 2 | .286 | .320 | .317 | .637 | 83.0 | 81.6 | .301 | 0.3 |
| 1981 | 25 | 80 | 74 | 7 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .189 | .250 | .203 | .453 | 23.4 | 27.2 | .226 | -0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-06-21 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1979-07-10 | SF @ WSH Gameday | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1979-07-07 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1979-08-06 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1979-07-31 | SF @ HOU Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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.