Joe Strong

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 176 lb

BornAugust 4, 1902 · Jackson, KY, USA

Seasons16 (1922–1937)

Cleveland Tate Stars 1922; Chicago American Giants 1923; Milwaukee Bears 1923; Baltimore Black Sox 1924–1928; Hilldale Club 1928; Homestead Grays 1929; Hilldale Club 1929; St. Louis Stars 1930–1931; Homestead Grays 1932–1937; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1937

Percentile snapshot

1933 season — qualified batters

10.1

6.7

7.4

6.7

35.6

RBI

9.4

6.7

67.8

35.6

.283

46.3

OBP

.338

SLG

.383

40.9

OPS

.722

43.6

wRC+

98.0

43.6

OPS+

97.1

wOBA

.331

36.9

sWAR

1.0

of 150 qualified 1933 batters (min 52 PA)

1935 season — qualified pitchers

23.2

28.4

21.1

75.8

22.1

SHO

118

72.6

71.6

77.9

32.6

45.3

88.3

23.2

ERA

6.22

7.4

WHIP

1.709

8.4

K/9

4.69

76.8

FIP

5.64

5.3

FIP-

110.6

15.8

ERA+

82.0

16.8

sWAR

0.4

of 96 qualified 1935 pitchers (min 61 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

111.4

75.1

sWAR

22.6

94.5

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1922	15	26	22	4	7	4	0	0	4	2	0	0	.318	.400	.500	.900	134.2	140.7	.412	0.1
1923	38	87	81	14	19	1	0	3	7	4	0	0	.235	.271	.358	.629	63.9	62.7	.288	2.2
1924	18	48	35	9	9	3	0	0	7	10	1	1	.257	.435	.343	.778	123.4	113.1	.390	0.9
1925	31	71	64	11	17	3	2	0	7	6	0	1	.266	.329	.375	.704	83.8	81.7	.326	3.2
1926	19	45	40	3	8	2	0	0	2	2	2	0	.200	.256	.250	.506	43.6	38.5	.248	1.2
1927	25	56	48	2	8	4	1	0	5	7	0	0	.167	.273	.292	.564	54.5	48.1	.275	3.2
1928	19	51	46	4	13	3	0	0	2	3	1	1	.283	.340	.348	.688	84.2	81.8	.324	0.7
1929	23	49	45	6	9	2	0	2	8	4	2	0	.200	.265	.378	.643	56.5	55.5	.293	3.5
1930	24	47	37	7	8	1	2	1	4	10	0	0	.216	.383	.432	.815	118.6	116.7	.381	1.8
1931	13	33	30	3	8	1	0	0	5	2	0	0	.267	.313	.300	.613	73.7	70.9	.299	1.4
1932	28	106	85	15	34	10	1	1	18	16	0	1	.400	.495	.576	1.072	184.5	195.3	.502	3.3
1933	21	67	60	9	17	0	0	2	10	5	0	0	.283	.338	.383	.722	98.0	97.1	.331	1.0
1934	17	55	51	6	10	1	1	1	7	4	1	0	.196	.255	.314	.568	63.5	60.7	.261	-0.2
1935	24	54	44	8	14	2	0	1	13	5	0	0	.318	.400	.432	.832	110.9	109.9	.384	0.4
1936	11	19	16	0	3	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	.188	.235	.313	.548	42.1	38.8	.252	0.0
1937	6	12	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.091	.167	.091	.258	-12.0	-30.6	.138	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1922	12	8	2	4	0	4	0	69	36	26	29	1	54.7	5.93	1.738	4.77	4.60	98.2	79.0	0.1
1923	31	21	7	15	1	13	1	222	89	66	68	8	187.7	4.27	1.535	3.26	4.28	97.4	103.0	2.2
1924	9	5	3	2	0	2	0	47	24	16	30	3	50.3	4.29	1.252	5.36	4.39	100.0	102.3	0.9
1925	30	17	11	10	4	11	2	149	69	43	42	0	156.3	3.97	1.228	2.42	4.90	100.4	122.8	3.2
1926	17	11	3	5	1	6	0	115	49	36	28	6	103.3	4.27	1.461	2.44	4.74	106.0	104.8	1.2
1927	23	15	7	9	0	8	0	136	46	39	45	3	132.0	3.14	1.326	3.07	4.02	87.6	146.1	3.2
1928	14	13	4	4	0	5	0	116	48	33	23	5	85.7	5.04	1.739	2.42	4.99	107.6	91.5	0.7
1929	21	13	9	3	0	8	1	110	38	39	45	4	110.0	3.11	1.355	3.68	4.92	90.3	175.3	3.5
1930	19	12	9	4	1	7	0	110	46	54	51	8	100.0	4.14	1.640	4.59	5.62	123.4	110.1	1.8
1931	11	8	4	3	1	4	0	52	21	22	38	1	60.3	3.13	1.227	5.67	3.65	86.7	134.5	1.4
1932	8	6	4	4	0	6	0	48	14	25	39	3	61.0	2.07	1.197	5.75	4.22	101.1	202.2	3.3
1933	6	3	2	1	1	2	0	25	8	14	14	1	29.3	2.45	1.330	4.30	4.77	110.7	175.6	1.0
1934	9	9	5	2	0	6	2	70	34	22	33	3	66.7	4.59	1.380	4.46	3.91	110.7	76.9	-0.2
1935	17	14	5	5	0	5	0	118	61	33	46	10	88.3	6.22	1.709	4.69	5.64	110.6	82.0	0.4
1936	3	1	1	0	0	1	0	16	6	3	3	0	11.0	4.91	1.727	2.45	4.29	84.0	104.1	0.0
1937	5	4	1	1	0	1	0	32	17	8	6	2	23.7	6.46	1.690	2.28	5.76	115.5	77.2	-0.2

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

332

826

715

102

185

RBI

.2587

OBP

.3392

SLG

.3790

OPS

.7182

Pitching

G (P)

235

160

488th-most career CG

SHO

1,320

SO (P)

540

BB allowed

479

ERA

4.131

WHIP

1.4496

K/9

3.68

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1935-07-06	HOM @ TIC Gameday	4	3	3	1	1	4	0	7
1932-07-30	HOM @ WPI Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	1	2	6
1932-05-24	NEW @ HOM Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	1	1	5
1930-06-01	CUB @ SLS Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	2	1	5
1933-08-20	HOM @ BBS Gameday	5	1	2	0	1	2	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1935-08-13	HOM @ NE Gameday	9.0	7	4	3	2	9	0
1930-06-08	BEG @ SLS Gameday	9.0	5	3	0	3	8	0
1932-05-22	HOM @ NEW Gameday	9.0	6	4	3	4	8	1
1923-06-09	TOL @ MIL Gameday	9.0	7	4	3	3	7	1
1935-07-20	HOM @ NYC Gameday	9.0	12	6	5	4	7	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.