Joey Gathright
Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2004–2005; Kansas City Royals 2006; Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2006; Kansas City Royals 2007–2008; Boston Red Sox 2009; Chicago Cubs 2009; Boston Red Sox 2011
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 19 | 57 | 52 | 11 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 1 | .250 | .316 | .250 | .566 | 55.9 | 52.1 | .268 | -0.1 |
| 2005 | 76 | 218 | 203 | 29 | 56 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 10 | 39 | 20 | 5 | .276 | .316 | .340 | .656 | 77.1 | 76.4 | .295 | 0.2 |
| 2006 | 134 | 445 | 383 | 59 | 91 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 41 | 42 | 75 | 22 | 9 | .238 | .321 | .292 | .614 | 64.2 | 60.5 | .287 | -0.2 |
| 2007 | 74 | 261 | 228 | 28 | 70 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 20 | 36 | 9 | 8 | .307 | .371 | .342 | .713 | 94.2 | 89.0 | .332 | 0.4 |
| 2008 | 105 | 315 | 279 | 41 | 71 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 20 | 40 | 21 | 4 | .254 | .311 | .272 | .584 | 58.4 | 57.0 | .274 | -0.4 |
| 2009 | 37 | 32 | 30 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | .267 | .313 | .267 | .579 | 51.5 | 52.5 | .271 | -0.1 |
| 2011 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | 1.000 | — | — | 374.4 | — | .726 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-07-30 | KC @ TB Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 2007-06-26 | KC @ LAA Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 2006-09-16 | SEA @ KC Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 2007-08-05 | KC @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2006-09-08 | KC @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
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.