Joe Vitiello
Kansas City Royals 1995–1999; San Diego Padres 2000; Montreal Expos 2003
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 53 | 142 | 130 | 13 | 33 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 21 | 8 | 25 | 0 | 0 | .254 | .317 | .446 | .763 | 96.8 | 96.8 | .339 | -0.1 |
| 1996 | 85 | 301 | 257 | 29 | 62 | 15 | 1 | 8 | 40 | 38 | 69 | 2 | 0 | .241 | .342 | .401 | .743 | 89.7 | 88.1 | .333 | -0.2 |
| 1997 | 51 | 146 | 130 | 11 | 31 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 14 | 37 | 0 | 0 | .238 | .322 | .400 | .722 | 86.2 | 85.9 | .323 | 0.0 |
| 1998 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .250 | .143 | .393 | 9.1 | 5.3 | .204 | -0.1 |
| 1999 | 13 | 45 | 41 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .146 | .222 | .244 | .466 | 15.6 | 18.2 | .218 | -0.4 |
| 2000 | 39 | 63 | 52 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .365 | .423 | .788 | 109.2 | 105.5 | .355 | 0.1 |
| 2003 | 38 | 86 | 76 | 12 | 26 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .342 | .407 | .539 | .946 | 146.5 | 141.4 | .414 | 0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-05-22 | KC @ DET Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| 1995-09-17 | KC @ LAA Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 1996-06-02 | KC @ TOR Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 2000-07-16 | LAA @ SD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1996-04-23 | NYY @ KC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
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.