Joe Sullivan
Detroit Tigers 1935–1936; Boston Bees 1939–1940; Boston Braves 1941; Pittsburgh Pirates 1941
Percentile snapshot
1940 season — qualified pitchers
of 95 qualified 1940 pitchers (min 152 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 25 | 48 | 43 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .163 | .234 | .186 | .420 | 12.1 | 12.2 | .211 | 2.1 |
| 1936 | 26 | 30 | 28 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .179 | .207 | .179 | .385 | -7.0 | -3.7 | .186 | -0.6 |
| 1939 | 33 | 44 | 40 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .300 | .349 | .325 | .674 | 88.4 | 87.6 | .319 | 1.5 |
| 1940 | 36 | 74 | 71 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .197 | .197 | .211 | .408 | 3.1 | 14.8 | .187 | 2.0 |
| 1941 | 32 | 27 | 26 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .192 | .222 | .192 | .415 | 10.1 | 16.6 | .201 | 0.8 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 25 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 119 | 49 | 71 | 53 | 4 | 125.7 | 3.51 | 1.512 | 3.80 | 4.43 | 103.8 | 121.5 | 2.1 |
| 1936 | 26 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 111 | 60 | 40 | 32 | 4 | 79.7 | 6.78 | 1.895 | 3.62 | 4.92 | 98.3 | 73.9 | -0.6 |
| 1939 | 31 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 114 | 46 | 50 | 46 | 3 | 113.7 | 3.64 | 1.443 | 3.64 | 3.72 | 100.8 | 101.2 | 1.5 |
| 1940 | 36 | 22 | 10 | 14 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 157 | 70 | 89 | 64 | 9 | 177.3 | 3.55 | 1.387 | 3.25 | 4.33 | 116.8 | 104.3 | 2.0 |
| 1941 | 32 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 37 | 48 | 21 | 5 | 91.7 | 3.63 | 1.615 | 2.06 | 4.45 | 124.3 | 98.7 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935-07-10 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1935-05-10 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 1940-08-06 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1940-06-10 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1940-08-31 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-08-18 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 14.0 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 0 |
| 1935-05-31 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
| 1939-08-05 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 8.0 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1940-07-19 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 6.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1935-07-03 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 5.1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 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.