Joe Thatcher

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 230 lb

BornOctober 4, 1981 · Indianapolis, IN, USA

MLB debutJuly 26, 2007

Final gameOctober 2, 2015

Seasons9 (2007–2015)

San Diego Padres 2007–2012; Arizona Diamondbacks 2013; San Diego Padres 2013; Arizona Diamondbacks 2014; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2014; Houston Astros 2015

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

3.8

76.4

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	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2007	22	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
2008	25	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.2	-100.0	.000	-1.1
2009	52	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0
2010	65	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
2011	18	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
2012	55	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
2013	72	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
2014	53	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
2015	43	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2007	22	2	2	0	13	3	6	16	1	21.0	1.29	.905	6.86	3.27	79.7	319.6	0.9
2008	25	0	4	0	42	24	13	17	4	25.7	8.42	2.143	5.96	5.33	135.8	46.6	-1.1
2009	52	1	0	0	37	14	18	55	2	45.0	2.80	1.222	11.00	2.66	68.3	138.9	1.0
2010	65	1	0	0	23	5	7	45	1	35.0	1.29	.857	11.57	1.59	42.5	291.3	1.3
2011	18	0	0	0	8	5	7	9	1	10.0	4.50	1.500	8.10	4.59	127.2	80.2	0.0
2012	55	1	4	1	30	12	14	39	2	31.7	3.41	1.389	11.08	3.11	83.6	108.9	0.4
2013	72	3	2	0	40	14	10	36	4	39.3	3.20	1.271	8.24	3.35	92.4	112.3	0.6
2014	53	2	1	0	36	13	4	27	3	30.3	3.86	1.319	8.01	3.41	91.3	96.9	0.3
2015	43	1	3	0	23	8	12	26	1	22.7	3.18	1.544	10.32	2.97	76.8	121.9	0.4

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

405

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

405

SHO

261

SO (P)

270

BB allowed

ERA

3.384

WHIP

1.3159

K/9

9.32

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
2007-07-26	SD @ HOU Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2007-07-27	SD @ HOU Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2007-07-31	AZ @ SD Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2007-08-12	SD @ CIN Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2007-08-14	COL @ SD Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2009-06-05	AZ @ SD Gameday	1.2	2	0	0	0	4	0
2007-09-21	COL @ SD Gameday	2.0	2	1	1	0	3	1
2009-07-05	LAD @ SD Gameday	2.0	1	0	0	2	3	0
2009-07-23	SD @ PHI Gameday	1.2	0	0	0	0	3	0
2007-10-01	SD @ COL Gameday	1.1	0	0	0	0	3	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.