Joe Tipton
Cleveland Indians 1948; Chicago White Sox 1949; Philadelphia Athletics 1950–1951; Cleveland Indians 1952; Philadelphia Athletics 1952; Cleveland Indians 1953; Washington Senators 1954
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 47 | 97 | 90 | 11 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .289 | .333 | .356 | .689 | 84.8 | 87.7 | .327 | 0.5 |
| 1949 | 67 | 219 | 191 | 20 | 39 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 27 | 17 | 1 | 1 | .204 | .306 | .309 | .615 | 63.6 | 64.7 | .303 | 0.2 |
| 1950 | 64 | 205 | 184 | 15 | 49 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 20 | 19 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .266 | .335 | .402 | .737 | 86.4 | 89.0 | .342 | 0.8 |
| 1951 | 72 | 266 | 213 | 23 | 51 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 20 | 51 | 25 | 1 | 1 | .239 | .389 | .324 | .713 | 101.7 | 92.0 | .355 | 1.5 |
| 1952 | 66 | 214 | 173 | 21 | 39 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 30 | 36 | 31 | 1 | 0 | .225 | .365 | .416 | .781 | 122.7 | 119.7 | .370 | 1.8 |
| 1953 | 47 | 131 | 109 | 17 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .229 | .359 | .413 | .772 | 115.3 | 112.8 | .362 | 1.1 |
| 1954 | 54 | 192 | 157 | 9 | 35 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 1 | .223 | .353 | .293 | .646 | 90.3 | 82.8 | .321 | 0.9 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-06-29 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
| 1949-06-23 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1948-06-06 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1952-09-27 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 1950-08-15 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-04-20 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-23 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-24 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-25 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-26 | CLE @ CWS 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.