Joel Johnston
Kansas City Royals 1991–1992; Pittsburgh Pirates 1993–1994; Boston Red Sox 1995
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.2 |
| 1992 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
| 1993 | 33 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .500 | .833 | 121.2 | 120.5 | .368 | 1.0 |
| 1994 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.9 |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 21 | 0 | 22.3 | 0.40 | .806 | 8.46 | 2.24 | 54.4 | 1020.4 | 1.2 |
| 1992 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2.7 | 13.50 | 1.875 | 0.00 | 14.79 | 368.2 | 29.8 | -0.3 |
| 1993 | 33 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 20 | 19 | 31 | 7 | 53.3 | 3.38 | 1.069 | 5.23 | 4.59 | 113.6 | 119.6 | 1.0 |
| 1994 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 3.3 | 29.70 | 5.400 | 13.50 | 5.47 | 127.4 | 14.4 | -0.9 |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4.0 | 11.25 | 1.250 | 9.00 | 7.39 | 152.8 | 43.0 | -0.2 |
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
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993-08-31 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1993-07-07 | PIT @ HOU Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993-07-09 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993-07-11 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993-07-16 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991-09-05 | KC @ CWS Gameday | 3.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1991-09-11 | MIN @ KC Gameday | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1993-08-28 | SD @ PIT Gameday | 2.1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1993-09-29 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993-07-09 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 3.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 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.