Joel Youngblood
Cincinnati Reds 1976; New York Mets 1977; St. Louis Cardinals 1977; New York Mets 1978–1981; Montreal Expos 1982; New York Mets 1982; San Francisco Giants 1983–1988; Cincinnati Reds 1989
Percentile snapshot
1984 season — qualified batters
of 120 qualified 1984 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 55 | 60 | 57 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | .193 | .233 | .246 | .479 | 30.5 | 35.8 | .231 | -0.3 |
| 1977 | 95 | 227 | 209 | 17 | 51 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 16 | 45 | 1 | 5 | .244 | .296 | .316 | .612 | 68.1 | 68.3 | .283 | -0.2 |
| 1978 | 113 | 287 | 266 | 40 | 67 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 30 | 16 | 39 | 4 | 0 | .252 | .294 | .436 | .730 | 103.1 | 105.1 | .330 | 1.0 |
| 1979 | 158 | 665 | 590 | 90 | 162 | 37 | 5 | 16 | 60 | 60 | 84 | 18 | 13 | .275 | .346 | .436 | .782 | 116.4 | 115.3 | .355 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 146 | 577 | 514 | 58 | 142 | 26 | 2 | 8 | 69 | 52 | 69 | 14 | 11 | .276 | .340 | .381 | .721 | 102.3 | 103.8 | .330 | 1.7 |
| 1981 | 43 | 161 | 143 | 16 | 50 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 12 | 19 | 2 | 5 | .350 | .398 | .531 | .929 | 166.5 | 163.5 | .421 | 1.6 |
| 1982 | 120 | 320 | 292 | 37 | 70 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 29 | 17 | 58 | 2 | 5 | .240 | .299 | .318 | .617 | 73.3 | 72.7 | .290 | -0.4 |
| 1983 | 124 | 415 | 373 | 59 | 109 | 20 | 3 | 17 | 53 | 33 | 59 | 7 | 4 | .292 | .356 | .499 | .855 | 138.5 | 137.4 | .385 | 3.4 |
| 1984 | 134 | 524 | 469 | 50 | 119 | 17 | 1 | 10 | 51 | 48 | 86 | 5 | 6 | .254 | .328 | .358 | .686 | 99.3 | 95.2 | .325 | 1.9 |
| 1985 | 95 | 263 | 230 | 24 | 62 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 24 | 30 | 37 | 3 | 2 | .270 | .355 | .348 | .703 | 107.5 | 101.5 | .334 | 0.9 |
| 1986 | 97 | 208 | 184 | 20 | 47 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 28 | 18 | 34 | 1 | 1 | .255 | .320 | .402 | .723 | 104.6 | 103.2 | .332 | 0.5 |
| 1987 | 69 | 98 | 91 | 9 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 1 | .253 | .296 | .385 | .681 | 82.8 | 83.2 | .306 | 0.0 |
| 1988 | 83 | 139 | 123 | 12 | 31 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 10 | 17 | 1 | 1 | .252 | .307 | .285 | .591 | 77.1 | 75.1 | .282 | -0.1 |
| 1989 | 76 | 134 | 118 | 13 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 21 | 0 | 1 | .212 | .299 | .331 | .629 | 77.3 | 78.3 | .292 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978-08-09 | NYM @ WSH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 1983-07-04 | SF @ SD Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1980-05-06 | CIN @ NYM Gameday | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1981-05-03 | SD @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1983-08-26 | SF @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.