Joel Davis
Chicago White Sox 1985–1988
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.8 |
| 1986 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.5 |
| 1987 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
| 1988 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 71 | 33 | 26 | 37 | 6 | 71.3 | 4.16 | 1.360 | 4.67 | 3.93 | 92.3 | 102.4 | 0.8 |
| 1986 | 19 | 19 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 115 | 55 | 51 | 54 | 9 | 105.3 | 4.70 | 1.576 | 4.61 | 4.36 | 101.9 | 91.0 | 0.5 |
| 1987 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 56 | 35 | 29 | 25 | 7 | 55.0 | 5.73 | 1.545 | 4.09 | 5.20 | 114.3 | 79.5 | -0.1 |
| 1988 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 12 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 16.0 | 6.75 | 1.625 | 5.63 | 5.76 | 145.1 | 58.8 | -0.4 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986-05-03 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 7.1 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 0 |
| 1986-05-25 | CWS @ KC Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| 1986-04-27 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 6.2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1986-05-20 | TOR @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 1985-08-11 | MIL @ CWS Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 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.