Joe Tinker

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 175 lb

BornJuly 27, 1880 · Muscotah, KS, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1902

Final gameSeptember 22, 1916

Seasons15 (1902–1916)

Chicago Orphans 1902; Chicago Cubs 1903–1912; Cincinnati Reds 1913; Chicago Chi-Feds 1914; Chicago Whales 1915; Chicago Cubs 1916

Percentile snapshot

1914 season — qualified batters

126

27.6

500

26.4

438

26.4

28.8

112

28.8

57.7

40.5

RBI

51.5

42.9

68.7

48.5

.256

30.1

OBP

.317

23.9

SLG

.349

41.7

OPS

.666

31.3

wRC+

88.1

23.9

OPS+

89.1

23.3

wOBA

.319

25.8

sWAR

1.6

47.9

of 164 qualified 1914 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

94.6

31.2

OPS+

97.2

35.9

sWAR

29.0

96.3

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1902	133	545	501	55	132	19	5	2	55	26	61	27	.263	.300	.333	.633	92.7	95.4	.310	2.1
1903	124	511	460	67	134	21	7	2	70	37	57	27	.291	.345	.380	.726	109.1	110.9	.350	2.8
1904	141	531	488	55	108	12	13	3	41	29	53	41	.221	.268	.318	.585	81.2	82.7	.283	1.4
1905	149	611	547	70	135	18	8	2	66	34	49	31	.247	.292	.320	.612	81.5	82.9	.296	1.5
1906	148	603	523	75	122	18	4	1	64	43	43	30	.233	.293	.289	.581	79.7	80.9	.291	1.5
1907	117	444	402	36	89	11	3	1	36	25	31	20	.221	.269	.271	.540	64.8	69.0	.269	0.4
1908	157	609	548	67	146	22	14	6	68	32	38	30	.266	.307	.391	.697	119.1	122.4	.335	4.4
1909	143	555	516	56	132	26	11	4	57	17	45	23	.256	.280	.372	.652	95.8	103.1	.312	2.4
1910	134	515	473	48	136	25	9	3	69	24	35	20	.288	.322	.397	.719	107.7	113.3	.344	2.9
1911	144	593	536	61	149	24	12	4	69	39	31	30	.278	.327	.390	.717	98.6	102.1	.340	2.6
1912	142	624	550	80	155	24	7	0	75	38	21	25	.282	.331	.351	.681	86.7	87.7	.326	1.7
1913	110	418	382	47	121	20	13	1	57	20	26	10	.317	.352	.445	.797	124.2	126.7	.371	3.1
1914	126	500	438	50	112	21	7	2	46	38	30	19	.256	.317	.349	.666	88.1	89.1	.319	1.6
1915	31	81	67	7	18	2	1	0	9	13	5	3	.269	.388	.328	.716	120.0	111.1	.359	0.6
1916	7	12	10	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	.100	.182	.100	.282	-18.5	-12.7	.154	-0.1

Career totals

1,806

404th-most career G

7,152

428th-most career PA

6,441

411th-most career AB

774

1,690

497th-most career H

263

114

114th-most career 3B

RBI

783

416

526

336

126th-most career SB

.2624

OBP

.3081

SLG

.3531

OPS

.6612

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
1909-08-13	SF @ CHC Gameday	4	1	4	2	0	1	2	0	9
1910-04-17	CHC @ CIN Gameday	5	1	3	1	2	0	2	0	8
1910-08-15	CHC @ LAD Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	4	1	7
1911-08-07	SF @ CHC Gameday	4	3	4	1	1	0	4	0	7
1910-09-23	CHC @ SF Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	1	3	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1902-04-17	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1902-04-18	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1902-04-19	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1902-04-20	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1902-04-21	STL @ CHC 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1946 (Old Timers)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.