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Joe Black played 6 major-league seasons (1952-1957) as a P (172). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 4 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 28 | BRO | 57 | 36 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15 | .139 | .278 | -20 |
| 1953 | 29 | BRO | 34 | 17 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .235 | .471 | 27 |
| 1955 | 31 | BRO|CIN | 38 | 33 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | .121 | .268 | -26 |
| 1956 | 32 | CIN | 34 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 28 | BRO | 56 | 2 | 15 | 4 | 15 | 142.1 | 85 | 41 | 2.15 | 174 |
| 1953 | 29 | BRO | 34 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 72.2 | 42 | 27 | 5.33 | 81 |
| 1954 | 30 | BRO | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 11.57 | 35 |
| 1955 | 31 | BRO|CIN | 38 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 117.2 | 63 | 30 | 4.05 | 100 |
| 1956 | 32 | CIN | 32 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 61.2 | 27 | 25 | 4.52 | 83 |
| 1957 | 33 | WS1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12.2 | 2 | 1 | 7.11 | 53 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | P | 56 | 0 | 7 | 18 | 4 | 2 |
| 1953 | P | 34 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 0 |
| 1954 | P | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955 | P | 38 | 11 | 3 | 18 | 2 | 1 |
| 1956 | P | 32 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 |
| 1957 | P | 7 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
Joe Black won: Rookie of the Year 1952 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 1 win). Full year pages: 1952.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 3 | 208 / 336 | 8 |
| 1952 | Rookie of the Year (winner) | NL | 1 | 19 / 24 | 19 |
Joe Black ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #110 | closers | 1952 | 174 ERA+ |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.