Josh James
Houston Astros 2018–2021
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.7 |
| 2019 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.5 |
| 2020 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
| 2021 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 29 | 3 | 23.0 | 2.35 | .957 | 11.35 | 3.54 | 84.6 | 178.5 | 0.7 |
| 2019 | 49 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 32 | 35 | 100 | 10 | 61.3 | 4.70 | 1.321 | 14.67 | 4.02 | 87.6 | 97.8 | 0.5 |
| 2020 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 4 | 17.3 | 7.27 | 1.846 | 10.90 | 7.03 | 159.7 | 60.6 | -0.4 |
| 2021 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 5.0 | 5.40 | 1.200 | 14.40 | 3.81 | 89.8 | 78.6 | 0.0 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-06 | HOU @ SEA Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019-07-02 | HOU @ COL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019-09-02 | HOU @ MIL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019-10-25 | HOU @ WSH Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019-10-26 | HOU @ WSH Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-01 | LAA @ HOU Gameday | 5.0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| 2018-09-18 | SEA @ HOU Gameday | 5.1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| 2018-10-17 | BOS @ HOU Gameday | 3.2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 2020-07-27 | SEA @ HOU Gameday | 3.0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 |
| 2019-05-08 | KC @ HOU Gameday | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
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.