Joe Sugden
Pittsburgh Pirates 1893–1897; St. Louis Browns 1898; Cleveland Spiders 1899; Chicago White Sox 1901; St. Louis Browns 1902–1905; Detroit Tigers 1912
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1893 | 27 | 103 | 92 | 20 | 24 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .261 | .340 | .370 | .709 | 90.1 | 88.3 | .343 | 0.4 |
| 1894 | 39 | 162 | 139 | 23 | 46 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 0 | .331 | .404 | .496 | .900 | 111.8 | 115.8 | .414 | 0.9 |
| 1895 | 50 | 183 | 158 | 28 | 48 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 0 | .304 | .379 | .361 | .739 | 95.3 | 91.1 | .359 | 0.8 |
| 1896 | 80 | 338 | 301 | 42 | 89 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 36 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 0 | .296 | .348 | .359 | .706 | 88.5 | 86.3 | .339 | 1.0 |
| 1897 | 84 | 322 | 288 | 31 | 64 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 38 | 18 | 13 | 9 | 0 | .222 | .275 | .271 | .546 | 51.5 | 44.3 | .267 | -0.4 |
| 1898 | 89 | 320 | 289 | 29 | 73 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 23 | 20 | 5 | 0 | .253 | .314 | .284 | .598 | 75.7 | 71.3 | .299 | 0.4 |
| 1899 | 76 | 268 | 250 | 19 | 69 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 0 | .276 | .307 | .304 | .611 | 69.5 | 67.5 | .296 | 0.3 |
| 1901 | 48 | 172 | 153 | 21 | 42 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 0 | .275 | .339 | .333 | .673 | 93.2 | 89.3 | .323 | 0.7 |
| 1902 | 68 | 233 | 200 | 25 | 50 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 20 | 14 | 2 | 0 | .250 | .330 | .305 | .635 | 84.4 | 79.0 | .310 | 0.8 |
| 1903 | 79 | 279 | 241 | 18 | 51 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 25 | 20 | 4 | 0 | .212 | .288 | .228 | .517 | 65.3 | 58.5 | .256 | 0.3 |
| 1904 | 105 | 391 | 348 | 25 | 93 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 28 | 35 | 6 | 0 | .267 | .331 | .302 | .632 | 108.2 | 105.3 | .308 | 2.2 |
| 1905 | 90 | 302 | 266 | 21 | 46 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 23 | 17 | 3 | 0 | .173 | .247 | .188 | .435 | 47.1 | 41.4 | .224 | -0.2 |
| 1912 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 36.4 | 41.5 | .240 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.00 | 1.000 | 0.00 | 2.81 | 80.7 | — | 0.8 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-08-08 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1901-07-10 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1904-04-17 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1904-07-05 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1904-09-19 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902-09-28 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-24 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-25 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-27 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-28 | CLE @ CWS 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.