Cleon Jones
New York Mets 1963; New York Mets 1965–1975; Chicago White Sox 1976
Percentile snapshot
1974 season — qualified batters
of 132 qualified 1974 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 6 | 15 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .133 | .133 | .267 | -43.6 | -23.6 | .122 | -0.2 |
| 1965 | 30 | 76 | 74 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 23 | 1 | 0 | .149 | .171 | .203 | .374 | -3.3 | 5.8 | .173 | -0.7 |
| 1966 | 139 | 537 | 495 | 74 | 136 | 16 | 4 | 8 | 57 | 30 | 62 | 16 | 8 | .275 | .318 | .372 | .689 | 92.7 | 92.0 | .312 | 1.3 |
| 1967 | 129 | 446 | 411 | 46 | 101 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 30 | 19 | 57 | 12 | 2 | .246 | .282 | .331 | .613 | 71.6 | 76.4 | .279 | -0.1 |
| 1968 | 147 | 552 | 509 | 63 | 151 | 29 | 4 | 14 | 55 | 31 | 98 | 23 | 12 | .297 | .341 | .452 | .793 | 143.1 | 137.5 | .366 | 3.9 |
| 1969 | 137 | 558 | 483 | 92 | 164 | 25 | 4 | 12 | 75 | 64 | 60 | 16 | 8 | .340 | .422 | .482 | .904 | 157.7 | 153.0 | .414 | 5.0 |
| 1970 | 134 | 574 | 506 | 71 | 140 | 25 | 8 | 10 | 63 | 57 | 87 | 12 | 3 | .277 | .352 | .417 | .769 | 109.6 | 107.0 | .353 | 2.0 |
| 1971 | 136 | 568 | 505 | 63 | 161 | 24 | 6 | 14 | 69 | 53 | 87 | 6 | 5 | .319 | .382 | .473 | .856 | 148.0 | 144.4 | .390 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 106 | 415 | 375 | 39 | 92 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 52 | 30 | 83 | 1 | 6 | .245 | .305 | .331 | .636 | 82.5 | 84.1 | .296 | -0.1 |
| 1973 | 92 | 379 | 339 | 48 | 88 | 13 | 0 | 11 | 48 | 28 | 51 | 1 | 1 | .260 | .315 | .395 | .710 | 93.9 | 98.2 | .320 | 0.6 |
| 1974 | 124 | 510 | 461 | 62 | 130 | 23 | 1 | 13 | 60 | 38 | 79 | 3 | 3 | .282 | .343 | .421 | .763 | 116.8 | 115.7 | .356 | 2.1 |
| 1975 | 21 | 53 | 50 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .240 | .283 | .260 | .543 | 55.2 | 55.6 | .264 | -0.2 |
| 1976 | 12 | 47 | 40 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .304 | .225 | .529 | 63.9 | 56.6 | .271 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973-04-06 | PHI @ NYM Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1973-09-19 | PIT @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 1974-08-18 | NYM @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1969-10-05 | NYM @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1972-08-06 | CHC @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.