Joel Skinner
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .273 | .273 | .545 | 44.2 | 49.8 | .249 | 0.0 |
| 1984 | 43 | 88 | 80 | 4 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 1 | 0 | .213 | .273 | .238 | .510 | 40.2 | 41.2 | .244 | 0.0 |
| 1985 | 22 | 50 | 44 | 9 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .341 | .408 | .545 | .954 | 161.1 | 155.8 | .422 | 0.7 |
| 1986 | 114 | 336 | 315 | 23 | 73 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 37 | 16 | 83 | 1 | 4 | .232 | .269 | .314 | .584 | 56.2 | 58.8 | .265 | 0.3 |
| 1987 | 64 | 154 | 139 | 9 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 46 | 0 | 0 | .137 | .187 | .230 | .417 | 7.2 | 10.8 | .189 | -0.7 |
| 1988 | 88 | 272 | 251 | 23 | 57 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 23 | 14 | 72 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .267 | .335 | .602 | 66.5 | 68.4 | .275 | 0.6 |
| 1989 | 79 | 189 | 178 | 10 | 41 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 42 | 1 | 1 | .230 | .271 | .303 | .575 | 59.4 | 61.3 | .269 | 0.4 |
| 1990 | 49 | 146 | 139 | 16 | 35 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 44 | 0 | 0 | .252 | .288 | .338 | .626 | 73.6 | 75.3 | .289 | 0.5 |
| 1991 | 99 | 305 | 284 | 23 | 69 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 14 | 67 | 0 | 2 | .243 | .279 | .303 | .582 | 57.7 | 60.9 | .268 | 0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986-07-19 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1989-05-07 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1990-07-22 | CLE @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1991-05-05 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1988-05-30 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 6 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
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.