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Joey McLaughlin

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 205 lb

BornJuly 11, 1956 · Tulsa, OK, USA

MLB debutJune 11, 1977

Final gameSeptember 25, 1984

Seasons7 (1977–1984)

Atlanta Braves 1977; Atlanta Braves 1979; Toronto Blue Jays 1980–1983; Texas Rangers 1984; Toronto Blue Jays 1984

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

6.0

81.4

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	H	2B	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1977	3	1	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-137.2	-100.0	.000	-0.7
1979	37	11	11	2	1	4	.182	.182	.273	.455	4.4	18.7	.204	1.9
1980	55	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
1981	40	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
1982	44	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1983	50	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5
1984	21	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1977	3	2	0	0	0	10	10	3	0	3	6.0	15.00	2.167	0.00	10.73	246.1	29.1	-0.7
1979	37	0	5	3	5	54	19	34	40	3	69.0	2.48	1.275	5.22	3.62	90.6	161.3	1.9
1980	55	10	6	9	4	159	68	53	70	16	135.7	4.51	1.563	4.64	4.52	107.9	92.9	0.8
1981	40	0	1	5	10	55	19	21	38	2	60.0	2.85	1.267	5.70	2.76	72.0	134.3	1.3
1982	44	0	8	6	8	54	25	30	49	7	70.0	3.21	1.200	6.30	3.92	89.7	135.9	1.6
1983	50	0	7	4	9	63	32	37	47	11	64.7	4.45	1.546	6.54	5.30	124.5	95.6	0.5
1984	21	0	2	1	0	45	19	20	24	4	43.3	3.95	1.500	4.98	4.22	103.2	103.7	0.5

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

250

RBI

.1667

OBP

.1667

SLG

.2500

OPS

.4167

Pitching

G (P)

250

471st-most career SV

SHO

449

SO (P)

268

BB allowed

198

ERA

3.851

WHIP

1.4220

K/9

5.38

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	H	2B	TB
1979-06-27	ATL @ SD Gameday	2	2	1	3
1977-06-11	PHI @ ATL Gameday	0	0	0	0
1977-06-15	NYM @ ATL Gameday	1	0	0	0
1977-09-24	CIN @ ATL Gameday	0	0	0	0
1979-06-11	ATL @ WSH Gameday	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1981-09-22	ATH @ TOR Gameday	3.0	3	0	0	1	5	0
1984-06-02	SEA @ TEX Gameday	1.2	2	2	2	1	5	0
1980-07-13	MIL @ TOR Gameday	6.0	8	4	4	0	4	0
1980-09-22	TOR @ DET Gameday	5.2	8	5	5	3	4	1
1980-10-04	TOR @ BOS Gameday	4.2	10	5	5	0	4	2

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.