Cliff Johnson
Houston Astros 1972–1977; New York Yankees 1977–1978; Cleveland Indians 1979; New York Yankees 1979; Chicago Cubs 1980; Cleveland Indians 1980; Oakland Athletics 1981–1982; Toronto Blue Jays 1983–1984; Texas Rangers 1985; Toronto Blue Jays 1985–1986
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .500 | .250 | .750 | 160.3 | 122.2 | .406 | 0.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | 22 | 20 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .300 | .364 | .700 | 1.064 | 192.4 | 189.9 | .466 | 0.3 |
| 1974 | 83 | 210 | 171 | 26 | 39 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 29 | 33 | 45 | 0 | 1 | .228 | .357 | .439 | .796 | 129.9 | 126.5 | .373 | 1.5 |
| 1975 | 122 | 393 | 340 | 52 | 94 | 16 | 1 | 20 | 65 | 46 | 64 | 1 | 0 | .276 | .370 | .506 | .876 | 149.7 | 149.4 | .400 | 3.6 |
| 1976 | 108 | 384 | 318 | 36 | 72 | 21 | 2 | 10 | 49 | 62 | 59 | 0 | 0 | .226 | .359 | .399 | .759 | 127.8 | 124.2 | .359 | 2.9 |
| 1977 | 107 | 339 | 286 | 46 | 85 | 16 | 0 | 22 | 54 | 43 | 53 | 0 | 2 | .297 | .407 | .584 | .991 | 173.8 | 172.1 | .436 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 76 | 205 | 174 | 20 | 32 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 19 | 30 | 32 | 0 | 0 | .184 | .307 | .351 | .658 | 85.8 | 88.3 | .302 | 0.1 |
| 1979 | 100 | 350 | 304 | 48 | 82 | 16 | 0 | 20 | 67 | 34 | 46 | 2 | 0 | .270 | .347 | .520 | .866 | 126.5 | 130.8 | .375 | 1.4 |
| 1980 | 122 | 430 | 370 | 53 | 86 | 11 | 1 | 16 | 62 | 54 | 65 | 0 | 1 | .232 | .328 | .397 | .725 | 93.1 | 96.1 | .327 | 0.1 |
| 1981 | 84 | 310 | 273 | 40 | 71 | 8 | 0 | 17 | 59 | 28 | 60 | 5 | 3 | .260 | .329 | .476 | .805 | 132.8 | 135.3 | .361 | 1.4 |
| 1982 | 73 | 244 | 214 | 19 | 51 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 31 | 26 | 41 | 1 | 2 | .238 | .324 | .383 | .707 | 97.6 | 97.2 | .320 | 0.1 |
| 1983 | 142 | 484 | 407 | 59 | 108 | 23 | 1 | 22 | 76 | 67 | 69 | 0 | 1 | .265 | .373 | .489 | .862 | 131.3 | 130.8 | .380 | 1.9 |
| 1984 | 127 | 415 | 359 | 51 | 109 | 23 | 1 | 16 | 61 | 50 | 62 | 0 | 1 | .304 | .390 | .507 | .897 | 147.6 | 144.6 | .398 | 2.4 |
| 1985 | 106 | 417 | 369 | 35 | 96 | 17 | 1 | 13 | 66 | 40 | 59 | 0 | 0 | .260 | .334 | .417 | .751 | 104.9 | 104.0 | .336 | 0.4 |
| 1986 | 107 | 394 | 336 | 48 | 84 | 12 | 1 | 15 | 55 | 52 | 57 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .355 | .426 | .781 | 115.1 | 111.4 | .353 | 1.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977-06-30 | NYY @ TOR Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 12 |
| 1977-05-17 | STL @ HOU Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1976-05-09 | HOU @ STL Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1984-09-29 | TOR @ MIL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1979-09-18 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
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.