Joe Taylor
Philadelphia Athletics 1954; Cincinnati Redlegs 1957; Baltimore Orioles 1958; St. Louis Cardinals 1958; Baltimore Orioles 1959
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 18 | 60 | 58 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 1 | .224 | .250 | .328 | .578 | 43.4 | 54.9 | .266 | -0.3 |
| 1957 | 33 | 115 | 107 | 14 | 28 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 24 | 0 | 1 | .262 | .301 | .439 | .740 | 91.2 | 91.3 | .327 | 0.1 |
| 1958 | 54 | 111 | 100 | 13 | 28 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .280 | .336 | .440 | .776 | 112.8 | 114.2 | .345 | 0.4 |
| 1959 | 14 | 43 | 32 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .156 | .372 | .281 | .653 | 103.8 | 86.0 | .332 | 0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-09-16 | LAD @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 1957-08-14 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1958-08-09 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1957-08-04 | SF @ CIN Gameday | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 1958-09-14 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-08-12 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-08-31 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-09-25 | ATH @ NYY 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.