MLB / Players

Joe Szekely

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb
BornFebruary 2, 1925 · Cleveland, OH, USA
MLB debutSeptember 13, 1953
Final gameSeptember 27, 1953
Seasons1 (1953–1953)

Cincinnati Reds 1953

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
-0.3
21.8

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
1953513130100000300.077.077.077.154-82.3-60.0.069-0.3

Career totals

G
5
PA
13
AB
13
R
0
H
1
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
3
SB
0
BA
.0769
OBP
.0769
SLG
.0769
OPS
.1538

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1953-09-27ATL @ CIN Gameday401000001
1953-09-13PIT @ CIN Gameday400000000
1953-09-13PIT @ CIN Gameday300000000
1953-09-19CIN @ ATL Gameday100000000
1953-09-22CHC @ CIN Gameday100000000

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.