Joe Morgan

1963–1984 · 22 seasons · Bats left, throws right · Born 1943

More than one Major Leaguer has this name. This page is the Joe Morgan who played 1963–1984. The other one:

Joe Morgan, 1959–1964 4 seasons

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17 of 26 columns. Folded away: CS, TB, HBP, wOBA, wRAA, WAR: Bat, WAR: Field, WAR: Run, WAR: Pos.

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1963	Houston Colt .45's	NL	8	30	25	5	6	0	1	0	3	5	5	1	.240	.367	.320	.687	0.2
1964	Houston Colt .45's	NL	10	43	37	4	7	0	0	0	0	6	7	0	.189	.302	.189	.492	-0.1
1965	Houston Astros	NL	157	708	601	100	163	22	12	14	40	97	77	20	.271	.373	.418	.791	7.2
1966	Houston Astros	NL	122	528	425	60	121	14	8	5	42	89	43	11	.285	.410	.391	.801	4.5
1967	Houston Astros	NL	133	580	494	73	136	27	11	6	42	81	51	29	.275	.378	.411	.789	6.2
1968	Houston Astros	NL	10	27	20	6	5	0	1	0	0	7	4	3	.250	.444	.350	.794	0.2
1969	Houston Astros	NL	147	657	535	94	126	18	5	15	43	110	74	49	.236	.365	.372	.737	3.8
1970	Houston Astros	NL	144	658	548	102	147	28	9	8	52	102	55	42	.268	.383	.396	.779	5.7
1971	Houston Astros	NL	160	689	583	87	149	27	11	13	56	88	52	40	.256	.351	.407	.757	5.3
1972	Cincinnati Reds	NL	149	680	552	122	161	23	4	16	73	115	44	58	.292	.417	.435	.851	10.1
1973GG	Cincinnati Reds	NL	157	698	576	116	167	35	2	26	82	111	61	67	.290	.406	.493	.899	9.8
1974GG	Cincinnati Reds	NL	149	641	512	107	150	31	3	22	67	120	69	58	.293	.427	.494	.921	8.8
1975MVPGG	Cincinnati Reds	NL	146	639	498	107	163	27	6	17	94	132	52	67	.327	.466	.508	.974	11.2
1976MVPGG	Cincinnati Reds	NL	141	599	472	113	151	30	5	27	111	114	41	60	.320	.444	.576	1.020	10.7
1977GG	Cincinnati Reds	NL	153	645	521	113	150	21	6	22	78	117	58	49	.288	.417	.478	.895	6.4
1978	Cincinnati Reds	NL	132	533	441	68	104	27	0	13	75	79	40	19	.236	.347	.385	.733	1.6
1979	Cincinnati Reds	NL	127	538	436	70	109	26	1	9	32	93	45	28	.250	.379	.376	.756	2.3
1980	Houston Astros	NL	141	562	461	66	112	17	5	11	49	93	47	24	.243	.367	.373	.740	2.5
1981	San Francisco Giants	NL	90	378	308	47	74	16	1	8	31	66	37	14	.240	.371	.377	.748	2.1
1982SS	San Francisco Giants	NL	134	554	463	68	134	19	4	14	61	85	60	24	.289	.400	.438	.838	5.2
1983	Philadelphia Phillies	NL	123	504	404	72	93	20	1	16	59	89	54	18	.230	.370	.403	.773	4.0
1984	Oakland Athletics	AL	116	438	365	50	89	21	0	6	43	66	39	8	.244	.356	.351	.707	1.5
Career	22 seasons		2649	11329	9277	1650	2517	449	96	268	1133	1865	1015	689	.271	.395	.427	.822	109.3

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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Not every award existed yet. This database has Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

— means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: NL (National League), AL (American League).

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). The season lines on this page are our own derivative of that database — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.