Jason Thompson

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 200 lb

BornJuly 6, 1954 · Hollywood, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 23, 1976

Final gameJune 23, 1986

Seasons11 (1976–1986)

Detroit Tigers 1976–1979; California Angels 1980; Detroit Tigers 1980; Pittsburgh Pirates 1981–1985; Montreal Expos 1986

Percentile snapshot

1984 season — qualified batters

154

68.9

636

68.1

543

46.2

19.3

138

30.3

27.7

58.8

RBI

52.1

92.4

52.9

98.3

.254

17.6

OBP

.357

64.7

SLG

.389

29.4

OPS

.746

41.2

wRC+

111.3

52.9

OPS+

110.4

51.3

wOBA

.344

51.3

sWAR

1.6

24.4

of 120 qualified 1984 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

124.4

85.4

OPS+

121.9

sWAR

24.1

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
1976	123	486	412	45	90	12	1	17	54	68	72	2	4	.218	.328	.376	.704	103.7	102.5	.331	0.8
1977	158	668	585	87	158	24	5	31	105	73	91	0	1	.270	.347	.487	.834	121.5	120.6	.368	2.7
1978	153	669	589	79	169	25	3	26	96	74	96	0	0	.287	.364	.472	.836	134.8	132.0	.379	3.8
1979	145	569	492	58	121	16	1	20	79	70	90	2	0	.246	.338	.404	.742	97.5	98.0	.334	0.6
1980	138	529	438	69	126	19	0	21	90	83	86	2	1	.288	.398	.475	.873	142.3	142.0	.392	3.2
1981	86	285	223	36	54	13	0	15	42	59	49	0	0	.242	.396	.502	.899	158.8	150.3	.416	2.3
1982	156	662	550	87	156	32	0	31	101	101	107	1	0	.284	.391	.511	.902	151.4	147.5	.408	5.0
1983	152	623	517	70	134	20	1	18	76	99	128	1	0	.259	.376	.406	.782	121.1	115.5	.365	2.4
1984	154	636	543	61	138	22	0	17	74	87	73	0	0	.254	.357	.389	.746	111.3	110.4	.344	1.6
1985	123	490	402	42	97	17	1	12	61	84	58	0	0	.241	.369	.378	.747	114.8	110.9	.348	1.5
1986	30	69	51	6	10	4	0	0	4	18	12	0	1	.196	.406	.275	.680	107.0	92.7	.341	0.2

Career totals

1,418

5,686

4,802

640

1,253

204

208

358th-most career HR

RBI

782

816

260th-most career BB

862

.2609

OBP

.3658

361st-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4384

OPS

.8042

463rd-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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1981-09-06	PIT @ SD Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	1	4	0	9
1977-10-01	DET @ NYY Gameday	4	3	4	0	1	1	2	1	9
1980-07-23	DET @ LAA Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	1	9
1980-07-12	ATH @ LAA Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	2	0	8
1977-05-22	DET @ CWS Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	1	5	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

3× 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.