MLB / Players

Joel Skinner

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 4 in · 198 lb
BornFebruary 21, 1961 · La Jolla, CA, USA
MLB debutJune 12, 1983
Final gameSeptember 22, 1991
Seasons9 (1983–1991)

Chicago White Sox 1983–1986; New York Yankees 1986–1988; Cleveland Indians 1989–1991

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
2.2
71

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1983611112300010100.273.273.273.54544.249.8.2490.0
1984438880417200371910.213.273.238.51040.241.2.2440.0
1985225044915411551300.341.408.545.954161.1155.8.4220.7
1986114336315237391537168314.232.269.314.58456.258.8.2650.3
1987641541399194031484600.137.187.230.4177.210.8.189-0.7
1988882722512357150423147200.227.267.335.60266.568.4.2750.6
198979189178104110011394211.230.271.303.57559.461.3.2690.4
19904914613916354121674400.252.288.338.62673.675.3.2890.5
1991993052842369140124146702.243.279.303.58257.760.9.2680.3

Career totals

G
564
PA
1,551
AB
1,441
R
119
H
329
2B
62
3B
3
HR
17
RBI
136
BB
80
SO
387
SB
3
BA
.2283
OBP
.2694
SLG
.3109
OPS
.5803

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1986-07-19CWS @ NYY Gameday423101207
1989-05-07MIN @ CLE Gameday524200106
1990-07-22CLE @ LAA Gameday422101306
1991-05-05CLE @ ATH Gameday412101306
1988-05-30NYY @ ATH Gameday604100005

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.