Joe Vosmik
Cleveland Indians 1930–1936; St. Louis Browns 1937; Boston Red Sox 1938–1939; Brooklyn Dodgers 1940–1941; Washington Senators 1944
Percentile snapshot
1939 season — qualified batters
of 88 qualified 1939 batters (min 471 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 9 | 27 | 26 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .259 | .308 | .567 | 37.3 | 40.5 | .258 | -0.1 |
| 1931 | 149 | 640 | 591 | 80 | 189 | 36 | 14 | 7 | 117 | 38 | 30 | 7 | 7 | .320 | .363 | .464 | .827 | 108.1 | 110.1 | .376 | 2.0 |
| 1932 | 153 | 690 | 621 | 106 | 194 | 39 | 12 | 10 | 97 | 58 | 42 | 2 | 3 | .312 | .376 | .462 | .838 | 110.8 | 111.4 | .381 | 2.5 |
| 1933 | 119 | 485 | 438 | 53 | 115 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 56 | 42 | 13 | 0 | 2 | .263 | .331 | .381 | .713 | 85.4 | 86.0 | .332 | 0.1 |
| 1934 | 104 | 449 | 405 | 71 | 138 | 33 | 2 | 6 | 78 | 35 | 10 | 1 | 1 | .341 | .393 | .477 | .870 | 122.7 | 123.7 | .399 | 2.2 |
| 1935 | 152 | 688 | 620 | 93 | 216 | 47 | 20 | 10 | 110 | 59 | 30 | 2 | 1 | .348 | .408 | .537 | .946 | 141.0 | 141.8 | .428 | 5.0 |
| 1936 | 138 | 591 | 506 | 76 | 145 | 29 | 7 | 7 | 94 | 79 | 21 | 5 | 1 | .287 | .383 | .413 | .796 | 98.9 | 96.5 | .372 | 1.2 |
| 1937 | 144 | 655 | 594 | 81 | 193 | 47 | 9 | 4 | 93 | 49 | 38 | 2 | 3 | .325 | .377 | .455 | .832 | 104.8 | 105.3 | .378 | 1.8 |
| 1938 | 146 | 689 | 621 | 121 | 201 | 37 | 6 | 9 | 86 | 59 | 26 | 0 | 3 | .324 | .384 | .446 | .830 | 104.1 | 104.2 | .381 | 1.9 |
| 1939 | 145 | 640 | 554 | 89 | 153 | 29 | 6 | 7 | 84 | 66 | 33 | 4 | 3 | .276 | .356 | .388 | .744 | 89.1 | 88.0 | .347 | 0.5 |
| 1940 | 116 | 431 | 404 | 45 | 114 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 42 | 22 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .282 | .321 | .354 | .675 | 80.4 | 82.8 | .312 | -0.1 |
| 1941 | 25 | 61 | 56 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .196 | .250 | .196 | .446 | 21.1 | 25.8 | .222 | -0.5 |
| 1944 | 14 | 38 | 36 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .194 | .237 | .250 | .487 | 35.0 | 42.2 | .235 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931-04-18 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| 1936-05-02 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
| 1936-07-01 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1939-06-20 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 1934-05-01 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-04-17 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-18 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-19 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-20 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-04-21 | CLE @ DET 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.