J. C. Martin
Chicago White Sox 1959–1967; New York Mets 1968–1969; Chicago Cubs 1970–1972
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 33.5 | 40.0 | .229 | 0.0 |
| 1960 | 7 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .100 | .150 | .250 | -51.4 | -32.5 | .111 | -0.3 |
| 1961 | 110 | 300 | 274 | 26 | 63 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 32 | 21 | 31 | 1 | 2 | .230 | .290 | .336 | .625 | 66.4 | 69.1 | .285 | -0.7 |
| 1962 | 18 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .077 | .077 | .077 | .154 | -77.8 | -57.9 | .070 | -0.4 |
| 1963 | 105 | 290 | 259 | 25 | 53 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 28 | 26 | 35 | 0 | 0 | .205 | .278 | .313 | .591 | 62.2 | 68.6 | .264 | 0.5 |
| 1964 | 122 | 318 | 294 | 23 | 58 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 16 | 30 | 0 | 0 | .197 | .241 | .279 | .520 | 35.3 | 48.0 | .228 | -0.3 |
| 1965 | 119 | 261 | 230 | 21 | 60 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 24 | 29 | 2 | 1 | .261 | .333 | .339 | .672 | 91.2 | 99.3 | .299 | 1.6 |
| 1966 | 67 | 175 | 157 | 13 | 40 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 14 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .255 | .316 | .363 | .679 | 93.6 | 102.8 | .296 | 1.0 |
| 1967 | 101 | 286 | 252 | 22 | 59 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 30 | 41 | 4 | 4 | .234 | .317 | .337 | .654 | 98.6 | 98.7 | .304 | 1.8 |
| 1968 | 78 | 275 | 244 | 20 | 55 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 31 | 21 | 31 | 0 | 0 | .225 | .298 | .316 | .613 | 85.1 | 85.0 | .291 | 0.9 |
| 1969 | 66 | 192 | 177 | 12 | 37 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 12 | 32 | 0 | 0 | .209 | .257 | .316 | .573 | 54.7 | 59.8 | .265 | 0.0 |
| 1970 | 40 | 100 | 77 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .156 | .333 | .208 | .541 | 32.9 | 42.5 | .252 | -0.2 |
| 1971 | 47 | 142 | 125 | 13 | 33 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 16 | 1 | 1 | .264 | .336 | .352 | .688 | 75.1 | 85.2 | .307 | 0.4 |
| 1972 | 25 | 57 | 50 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 0 | .240 | .304 | .300 | .604 | 59.4 | 65.9 | .280 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966-06-05 | TEX @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1967-07-14 | LAA @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1963-09-28 | TEX @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1961-04-22 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1961-05-06 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
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.