Joe Thurston
Los Angeles Dodgers 2002–2004; Philadelphia Phillies 2006; Boston Red Sox 2008; St. Louis Cardinals 2009; Florida Marlins 2011
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 8 | 15 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .462 | .429 | .538 | .967 | 157.8 | 160.7 | .417 | 0.2 |
| 2003 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .273 | .200 | .473 | 31.9 | 30.0 | .231 | -0.1 |
| 2004 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .176 | .167 | .353 | .520 | 16.9 | 32.4 | .211 | -0.1 |
| 2006 | 18 | 20 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .300 | .278 | .578 | 49.7 | 48.2 | .271 | -0.1 |
| 2008 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .111 | .000 | .111 | -72.5 | -67.5 | .082 | -0.2 |
| 2009 | 124 | 307 | 267 | 27 | 60 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 25 | 33 | 56 | 4 | 2 | .225 | .316 | .330 | .645 | 71.4 | 73.4 | .294 | 0.1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 28.7 | 38.4 | .227 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-05-04 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 2009-06-01 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 2002-09-29 | SD @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2009-04-11 | HOU @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2009-04-08 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
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.