Joey Hamilton

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 220 lb

BornSeptember 9, 1970 · Statesboro, GA, USA

MLB debutMay 24, 1994

Final gameJune 6, 2003

Seasons10 (1994–2003)

San Diego Padres 1994–1998; Toronto Blue Jays 1999–2000; Cincinnati Reds 2001; Toronto Blue Jays 2001; Cincinnati Reds 2002–2003

Percentile snapshot

1998 season — qualified pitchers

68.4

78.9

48.4

24.2

SHO

220

33.7

103

25.3

106

3.2

147

49.5

87.4

217.3

72.6

ERA

4.27

43.2

WHIP

1.500

21.1

K/9

6.09

36.8

FIP

4.19

52.6

FIP-

104.9

32.6

ERA+

93.6

27.4

sWAR

1.5

27.4

of 96 qualified 1998 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

94.1

15.3

sWAR

9.1

85.9

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1994	16	48	40	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	24	.000	.047	.000	.047	-100.2	-86.2	.034	2.1
1995	31	73	65	4	7	2	0	0	3	2	38	.108	.132	.138	.271	-36.9	-27.0	.127	4.0
1996	34	81	68	7	11	2	0	1	4	2	32	.162	.186	.235	.421	8.4	13.2	.191	1.9
1997	31	66	54	4	7	0	0	2	6	1	26	.130	.140	.241	.381	-12.2	0.7	.164	1.4
1998	35	74	71	1	10	0	1	1	6	1	31	.141	.153	.211	.364	-12.6	-2.3	.162	1.5
1999	22	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.6	-100.0	.000	-0.7
2000	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
2001	26	8	8	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	5	.125	.125	.250	.375	-22.3	-5.0	.158	-0.7
2002	39	33	28	3	7	3	0	0	1	0	7	.250	.241	.357	.599	43.2	54.4	.258	-0.1
2003	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.0	-100.0	.000	-0.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1994	16	16	9	6	0	1	1	98	36	29	61	7	108.7	2.98	1.169	5.05	3.75	90.9	138.3	2.1
1995	31	30	6	9	0	2	2	189	70	56	123	17	204.3	3.08	1.199	5.42	3.93	97.1	131.2	4.0
1996	34	33	15	9	0	3	1	206	98	83	184	19	211.7	4.17	1.365	7.82	3.83	94.9	96.7	1.9
1997	31	29	12	7	0	1	0	199	91	69	124	22	192.7	4.25	1.391	5.79	4.53	114.5	93.1	1.4
1998	34	34	13	13	0	0	0	220	103	106	147	15	217.3	4.27	1.500	6.09	4.19	104.9	93.6	1.5
1999	22	18	7	8	0	0	0	118	71	39	56	13	98.0	6.52	1.602	5.14	5.07	103.4	75.2	-0.7
2000	6	6	2	1	0	0	0	28	13	12	15	3	33.0	3.55	1.212	4.09	4.77	95.0	141.6	0.8
2001	26	26	6	10	0	0	0	193	92	44	92	20	139.7	5.93	1.697	5.93	4.66	102.7	76.6	-0.7
2002	39	17	4	10	1	0	0	136	73	50	85	11	124.7	5.27	1.492	6.14	4.01	96.0	79.2	-0.1
2003	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	21	15	5	7	3	10.7	12.66	2.438	5.91	6.73	158.1	33.6	-0.9

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

243

388

339

RBI

167

.1268

OBP

.1449

SLG

.1917

OPS

.3366

Pitching

G (P)

242

209

SHO

1,341

SO (P)

894

BB allowed

493

ERA

4.444

WHIP

1.4180

K/9

6.00

377th-highest career K/9

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	HR	RBI	TB
1996-08-18	NYM @ SD Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	1	5
1997-06-27	SD @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	2	4
1997-05-22	LAD @ SD Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4
1998-07-12	SD @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4
2002-06-27	CIN @ CHC Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1998-05-29	STL @ SD Gameday	7.1	4	5	5	5	11	0
1998-07-23	AZ @ SD Gameday	8.0	4	0	0	0	10	0
1996-08-18	NYM @ SD Gameday	7.0	6	0	0	1	10	0
1996-05-22	PHI @ SD Gameday	6.1	5	2	2	3	10	1
1996-07-28	SD @ MIA Gameday	5.0	12	7	7	4	10	1

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.