MLB / Players

David Justice

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 195 lb

BornApril 14, 1966 · Cincinnati, OH, USA

MLB debutMay 24, 1989

Final gameSeptember 29, 2002

Seasons14 (1989–2002)

Atlanta Braves 1989–1996; Cleveland Indians 1997–2000; New York Yankees 2000–2001; Oakland Athletics 2002

Percentile snapshot

2000 season — qualified batters

146

44.5

605

41.5

524

40.2

150

44.5

51.2

10.4

91.5

RBI

118

87.8

73.2

42.1

17.7

79.9

.286

OBP

.377

67.1

SLG

.584

87.8

OPS

.961

85.4

wRC+

138.2

84.1

OPS+

139.8

84.1

wOBA

.410

83.5

sWAR

4.0

76.8

of 165 qualified 2000 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

130.5

90.9

OPS+

129.7

90.3

sWAR

36.2

97.5

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
1989	16	56	51	7	12	3	0	1	3	3	9	2	1	.235	.291	.353	.644	76.2	80.6	.293	-0.1
1990	127	504	439	76	124	23	2	28	78	64	92	11	6	.282	.373	.535	.908	145.5	141.3	.405	3.6
1991	109	469	396	67	109	25	1	21	87	65	81	8	8	.275	.377	.503	.880	141.1	140.6	.392	3.3
1992	144	571	484	78	124	19	5	21	72	79	85	2	4	.256	.359	.446	.805	126.3	123.0	.367	2.9
1993	157	670	585	90	158	15	4	40	120	78	90	3	5	.270	.357	.515	.871	129.9	131.9	.380	3.9
1994	104	424	352	61	110	16	2	19	59	69	45	2	4	.313	.427	.531	.958	153.7	148.9	.423	3.8
1995	120	491	411	73	104	17	2	24	78	73	68	4	2	.253	.365	.479	.844	120.7	119.8	.373	2.3
1996	40	164	140	23	45	9	0	6	25	21	22	1	1	.321	.409	.514	.923	143.4	140.6	.408	1.2
1997	139	582	495	84	163	31	1	33	101	80	79	3	5	.329	.418	.596	1.013	157.8	159.0	.432	4.9
1998	146	625	540	94	151	39	2	21	88	76	98	9	3	.280	.363	.476	.839	113.5	114.8	.364	1.7
1999	133	530	429	75	123	18	0	21	88	94	90	1	3	.287	.413	.476	.889	124.2	123.3	.391	2.5
2000	146	605	524	89	150	31	1	41	118	77	91	2	1	.286	.377	.584	.961	138.2	139.8	.410	4.0
2001	111	439	381	58	92	16	1	18	51	54	83	1	2	.241	.333	.430	.763	100.2	101.0	.333	0.4
2002	118	471	398	54	106	18	3	11	49	70	66	4	1	.266	.376	.410	.785	115.9	111.5	.353	1.7

Career totals

1,610

6,601

5,625

929

448th-most career R

1,571

280

305

158th-most career HR

RBI

1,017

290th-most career RBI

903

182nd-most career BB

999

393rd-most career SO

.2793

OBP

.3776

209th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5003

117th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8779

112th-highest career OPS

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1999-05-07	TB @ CLE Gameday	4	4	4	0	2	5	1	10
1990-08-07	SD @ ATL Gameday	4	3	4	0	2	4	1	10
1997-04-25	CLE @ MIL Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	2	0	10
1995-05-16	COL @ ATL Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	4	0	9
1991-09-09	SF @ ATL Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	5	0	9

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

2× Silver Slugger1× Rookie of the Year1× ALCS MVP3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.