MLB / Players

Howard Johnson

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 178 lb

BornNovember 29, 1960 · Clearwater, FL, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1982

Final gameOctober 1, 1995

Seasons14 (1982–1995)

Detroit Tigers 1982–1984; New York Mets 1985–1993; Colorado Rockies 1994; Chicago Cubs 1995

Percentile snapshot

1991 season — qualified batters

156

81.1

658

77.9

564

63.1

108

94.3

146

47.5

78.7

55.7

98.4

RBI

117

98.4

79.5

120

12.3

85.2

5.7

.259

25.4

OBP

.342

46.7

SLG

.535

95.9

OPS

.877

85.2

wRC+

139.6

81.1

OPS+

145.1

90.2

wOBA

.381

79.5

sWAR

5.5

87.7

of 123 qualified 1991 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

116.3

73.6

OPS+

118.7

77.5

sWAR

33.1

96.9

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
1982	54	173	155	23	49	5	0	4	14	16	30	7	4	.316	.384	.426	.810	128.2	124.2	.367	1.1
1983	27	74	66	11	14	0	0	3	5	7	10	0	0	.212	.297	.348	.646	83.6	80.5	.299	0.1
1984	116	402	355	43	88	14	1	12	50	40	67	10	6	.248	.324	.394	.718	102.2	100.2	.327	1.7
1985	126	428	389	38	94	18	4	11	46	34	78	6	4	.242	.300	.393	.693	89.5	96.1	.308	1.1
1986	88	253	220	30	54	14	0	10	39	31	64	8	1	.245	.341	.445	.787	115.9	120.0	.349	1.6
1987	157	645	554	93	147	22	1	36	99	83	113	32	10	.265	.364	.504	.868	130.3	134.1	.376	4.9
1988	148	594	495	85	114	21	1	24	68	86	104	23	7	.230	.343	.422	.765	118.1	124.9	.339	3.7
1989	153	655	571	104	164	41	3	36	101	77	126	41	8	.287	.369	.559	.928	169.2	169.5	.413	8.1
1990	154	668	590	89	144	37	3	23	90	69	100	34	8	.244	.319	.434	.753	103.4	106.7	.334	3.0
1991	156	658	564	108	146	34	4	38	117	78	120	30	16	.259	.342	.535	.877	139.6	145.1	.381	5.5
1992	100	410	350	48	78	19	0	7	43	55	79	22	5	.223	.329	.337	.666	92.9	90.1	.314	1.1
1993	72	280	235	32	56	8	2	7	26	43	43	6	4	.238	.354	.379	.732	102.2	98.3	.337	1.1
1994	93	269	227	30	48	10	2	10	40	39	73	11	3	.211	.323	.405	.729	72.4	74.2	.327	-0.4
1995	87	206	169	26	33	4	1	7	22	34	46	1	1	.195	.330	.355	.685	88.4	82.4	.321	0.4

Career totals

1,531

5,715

4,940

760

1,229

247

228

308th-most career HR

RBI

760

692

391st-most career BB

1,053

351st-most career SO

231

284th-most career SB

.2488

OBP

.3396

SLG

.4462

OPS

.7858

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
1988-09-08	NYM @ CHC Gameday	5	1	5	1	0	1	4	0	9
1995-05-28	MIA @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	3	1	9
1990-08-14	LAD @ NYM Gameday	4	2	3	2	0	1	4	0	8
1989-08-04	WSH @ NYM Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	1	3	0	8
1989-07-02	NYM @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	2	0	1	2	0	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.

Honors

2× Silver Slugger2× 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.