[Originally posted April 12, 2006 — updated for 2024 with final 2023 stats]

 In honor of the new baseball season, I’ve asked Bill James and the good folks at Baseball-Reference.com to compile my career (so far) statistics. Unfortunately, the records are spotty. Though they date as far back as my 1982–1983 stint as a Little Leaguer playing baseball against such classic teams as 15th Street Iron Works and Aurora Phoenix Construction, there is a disturbing absence of information for almost the next twenty years!

I know! No stats from the glory days of the mid-1980s, when man_size, larrondo, thamesrhodes, pango_lafoote, and I tested the confines of Riverside Park during summer softball?! Or the three years at the helm of the Oberlin College intramural softball teams — The Dascomb Lords of Fresh (1987), Better Than You (1988), and Like a Big Dog (1989)? Or those great seasons in the early 90s as captain of The Nation magazine softball team, as we squared off against the likes of The Village Voice and Money magazine? I know: a travesty.

But, since I joined their “league” in 2003, the nutty nutjobs of Prospect Park Sunday softball have stepped up to the plate. With an obsessiveness for stats I can only stand back and admire with awe, they record every out of every game we play during our April–November season.

So sit back and peruse my (admittedly sparse) stats, which prove beyond doubt that I was a born softballer. As the records clearly show, I couldn’t hit a curve — or a fastball, for that matter. (Though I was a pesky hitter, working out a fair number of walks and wreaking some havoc on the basepaths.) And the results some years later weren’t any better: I was cut from the Oberlin College baseball team, a Division III team with no athletic scholarships!

Anyway, my softball stats are a bit better — at least I’m over the Mendoza Line. However, I believe hitting anything less than .400 in softball is nothing to be proud about, so I’ve got plenty of work to do. (The two stat lines for the 2004 season reflect two leagues I played in, the first being P.P. Sunday Softball, and the second being the weekday Zen League, featuring real umpires. My team, the Plug Uglies, won the championship, but I found it all a little too intense — and time-consuming — and didn’t return the subsequent season.)

So the 2006 season has just begun, and assuming I don’t break any more fingers, I hope to really get my swing in the groove as the summer moves along.

NEW! UPDATED FOR 2023 [with 2022 stats]!

JOSHUA MICHAEL ROSLER NEUFELD
Born: August 9, 1967 Home: Brooklyn, New York
Ht.: 5’9″ Wgt.: 210 Bats: Left Throws: Left

YEAR	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG.	OBP.	SLG.	OPS
1982	9	17	5	3	0	0	0	5	9	6	6	.177	.391	.177	.568
1983	15	17	6	3	0	0	0	3	13	5	4	.177	.533	.177	.711
NO STATS KEPT
2003	—	60	19	25	6	0	5	18	4	0	—	.417	.453	.767	1.220
2004	—	104	22	38	5	1	4	29	13	0	—	.365	.436	.500	.936
2004	—	50	6	17	3	1	0	14	4	0	—	.340	.389	.440	.829
2005	24	69	20	26	3	1	3	18	9	0	—	.377	.449	.580	1.029
2006	43	127	48	67	13	2	3	31	17	0	—	.528	.568	.732	1.300
2007	40	133	42	71	9	5	3	50	12	2	—	.534	.565	.744	1.309
2008	23	82	26	41	8	5	5	27	4	2	—	.500	.667	.902	1.402
2009	25	78	30	41	9	2	2	26	8	1	—	.526	.570	.769	1.339
2010	26	82	28	43	8	4	4	43	9	1	—	.524	.542	.866	1.408
2011	23	67	26	37	7	5	2	30	11	2	—	.552	.578	.866	1.444
2012	11	37	7	17	2	1	0	12	1	1	—	.459	.474	.568	1.042
2013	14	45	11	19	4	1	1	12	3	3	—	.422	.458	.622	1.080
2014	25	74	40	40	5	3	3	40	9	2	—	.541	.577	.811	1.388
2015	19	73	19	36	9	1	2	25	1	2	—	.499	.500	.699	1.199
2016	4	14	5	8	1	0	0	3	1	0	—	.571	.600	.643	1.243
2017	2	7	3	4	0	0	2	6	1	0	—	.571	.625	.1.429	2.054
2018	5	11	3	4	0	1	0	4	3	0	—	.364	.500	.636	1.136
2019	?	17	4	5	1	0	0	0	3	0	—	.294	.400	.353	.753
2020	11	36	8	13	2	0	0	8	4	2	—	.361	.475	.417	.892
2021	8	34	5	16	1	2	0	8	3	1	—	.471	.513	.618	1.131
2022	15	48	19	30	1	1	2	20	5	0	—	.625	.636	.813	1.449
2023	16	64	21	32	5	0	3	20	7	2	—	500	.549	.719	1.268