Joe Ward
Philadelphia Phillies 1906; New York Highlanders 1909; Philadelphia Phillies 1909–1910
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 | 35 | 136 | 129 | 12 | 38 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 16 | 2 | 0 | .295 | .321 | .450 | .771 | 134.1 | 140.9 | .368 | 1.1 |
| 1909 | 83 | 233 | 212 | 24 | 54 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 10 | 20 | 9 | 0 | .255 | .295 | .311 | .606 | 84.8 | 88.0 | .297 | 0.4 |
| 1910 | 48 | 139 | 124 | 11 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .145 | .178 | .177 | .356 | -6.6 | 2.9 | .177 | -1.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906-04-27 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1906-05-01 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1906-04-30 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1906-05-03 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1909-08-19 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906-04-12 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1906-04-13 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1906-04-14 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1906-04-16 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1906-04-17 | ATL @ PHI 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.