Joe Yeager
1898–1908 · bats R / throws R · Brooklyn Dodgers, Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, St. Louis Browns
576G
.252AVG
.312OBP
.331SLG
More career statistics
467H
4HR
201RBI
37SB
33–49W–L
704.2IP
145K
3.74ERA
80GS
2SV
3Rare feats
Career summary: MLB’s official regular-season totals. Season lines, splits and historical game logs below are reconstructed from the covered Retrosheet records and can differ in coverage or scorer revisions. Compare sources and coverage.
Why official totals and the game-record sums differ
The sources can disagree on historical scorer decisions, appearances, and which games belong to a major-league record. The career summary uses the official total; the source game rows retain their recorded values.
| Statistic | MLB official | Recorded game sum |
|---|---|---|
| Batting · Games | 576 | 575 |
| Batting · At bats | 1,853 | 1,850 |
| Batting · Doubles | 77 | 79 |
| Batting · Hits | 467 | 468 |
| Batting · Hit by pitch | 51 | 54 |
| Batting · Plate appearances | 2,057 | 2,054 |
| Batting · Runs | 204 | 203 |
| Batting · RBI | 201 | 182 |
| Batting · Stolen bases | 37 | 38 |
| Batting · Triples | 29 | 28 |
| Batting · Walks | 110 | 108 |
| Pitching · Batters faced | 3,033 | 2,928 |
| Pitching · p er | 293 | 298 |
| Pitching · p h | 805 | 806 |
| Pitching · p ipouts | 2,114 | 2,110 |
| Pitching · p k | 145 | 151 |
| Pitching · p r | 421 | 420 |
| Pitching · p w | 188 | 186 |
Career batting
| G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | K | SB | CS | HBP | SF | TB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 576 | 2,057 | 1,853 | 204 | 467 | 77 | 29 | 4 | 201 | 110 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 614 | .252 | .312 | .331 | .643 |
Career pitching
| IP | G | GS | CG | W | L | SV | H | R | ER | HR | BB | K | HBP | WP | ERA | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 704.7 | 94 | 80 | 73 | 33 | 49 | 2 | 805 | 421 | 293 | 15 | 188 | 145 | 0 | 0 | 3.74 | 1.409 |
Streaks
11longest hitting streak · 1903-05-12 to 1903-05-24
23longest on-base streak
The three rarest things in this career
| Rarity | What | Date | Rate | Game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Twelve Runs Allowed | 1898-05-17 | 1 in 264 games | box score ↗ |
| 39 | 2 triples | 1902-05-31 | 1 in 1,837 player-games | box score ↗ |
| 34 | 11 innings pitched | 1898-09-16 | 1 in 308 pitcher-games | box score ↗ |
Splits
Regular season only.
Home and away
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 269 | 960 | 234 | 1 | 96 | 49 | 43 | .271 | .295 | .355 |
| Away | 306 | 1094 | 234 | 3 | 86 | 59 | 69 | .238 | .268 | .313 |
By month
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | 30 | 96 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | .186 | .208 | .198 |
| May | 114 | 415 | 90 | 0 | 45 | 20 | 22 | .240 | .265 | .331 |
| June | 61 | 201 | 44 | 3 | 25 | 11 | 11 | .240 | .274 | .393 |
| July | 103 | 366 | 89 | 1 | 23 | 19 | 20 | .266 | .295 | .343 |
| August | 117 | 419 | 98 | 0 | 36 | 20 | 24 | .259 | .282 | .322 |
| September | 139 | 518 | 119 | 0 | 48 | 33 | 26 | .261 | .293 | .325 |
| October | 11 | 39 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | .333 | .333 | .472 |
Most-faced opponents
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| washington-senators-1901-60 | 80 | 314 | 77 | 2 | 36 | 17 | 9 | .276 | .299 | .366 |
| chicago-white-sox | 78 | 277 | 56 | 0 | 21 | 11 | 20 | .220 | .242 | .276 |
| cleveland-guardians | 73 | 261 | 70 | 0 | 17 | 10 | 15 | .286 | .307 | .318 |
| boston-red-sox | 66 | 253 | 62 | 1 | 21 | 13 | 14 | .266 | .296 | .403 |
| philadelphia-athletics | 64 | 228 | 48 | 1 | 25 | 15 | 14 | .235 | .276 | .368 |
| st-louis-browns | 48 | 169 | 41 | 0 | 18 | 7 | 6 | .275 | .284 | .349 |
| detroit-tigers | 43 | 148 | 34 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 6 | .254 | .297 | .328 |
| new-york-yankees | 35 | 128 | 31 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 2 | .284 | .305 | .358 |
Season by season
| Year | Team | G | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | IP | K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1898 |  Brooklyn Dodgers | 43 | 134 | 23 | – | 15 | 1 | .172 | 291 | 76 |
| 1899 | Brooklyn Dodgers | 23 | 47 | 9 | – | 4 | – | .191 | 47 | 6 |
| 1900 | Brooklyn Dodgers | 3 | 9 | 3 | – | – | – | .333 | 17 | 2 |
| 1901 |  Detroit Tigers | 41 | 125 | 37 | 2 | 17 | 3 | .296 | 198 | 38 |
| 1902 | Detroit Tigers | 49 | 161 | 39 | 1 | 23 | – | .242 | 140 | 28 |
| 1903 | Detroit Tigers | 109 | 402 | 103 | – | 44 | 9 | .256 | 9 | 1 |
| 1905 |  New York Yankees | 116 | 400 | 107 | – | 43 | 9 | .268 | – | – |
| 1906 | New York Yankees | 57 | 118 | 37 | – | 13 | 3 | .314 | – | – |
| 1907 |  St. Louis Browns | 123 | 436 | 104 | 1 | 22 | 11 | .239 | – | – |
| 1908 | St. Louis Browns | 11 | 18 | 6 | – | 1 | 2 | .333 | – | – |