MLB / Players

Joe Strauss

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 9 in · 175 lb
BornNovember 16, 1858 · Cincinnati, OH, USA
MLB debutJuly 27, 1884
Final gameOctober 6, 1886
Seasons3 (1884–1886)

Kansas City Cowboys 1884; Louisville Colonels 1885; Brooklyn Grays 1886; Louisville Colonels 1886

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
-0.4
17.2

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
188416616041230001000.200.213.250.46371.556.0.2130.0
18852660100000000.167.167.167.33328.15.5.1540.0
18868334333342736713690290.219.242.288.53072.766.4.252-0.3

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
18862000100623004.04.502.2500.005.37156.076.5-0.3

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

G
101
PA
410
AB
399
R
46
H
86
2B
9
3B
7
HR
1
RBI
36
BB
10
SO
0
SB
29
BA
.2155
OBP
.2366
SLG
.2807
OPS
.5173

Pitching

G (P)
2
GS
0
W
0
L
0
SV
1
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
4
SO (P)
0
BB allowed
3
ERA
4.500
WHIP
2.2500
K/9
0.00

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.