Jay Johnstone

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornNovember 20, 1945 · Manchester, CT, USA

MLB debutJuly 30, 1966

Final gameOctober 6, 1985

Seasons20 (1966–1985)

California Angels 1966–1970; Chicago White Sox 1971–1972; Oakland Athletics 1973; Philadelphia Phillies 1974–1977; New York Yankees 1978; Philadelphia Phillies 1978; New York Yankees 1979; San Diego Padres 1979; Los Angeles Dodgers 1980–1981; Chicago Cubs 1982; Los Angeles Dodgers 1982; Chicago Cubs 1983–1984; Los Angeles Dodgers 1985

Percentile snapshot

1969 season — qualified batters

148

47.5

597

46.7

540

50.8

146

51.7

36.7

65.8

30.8

RBI

40.8

16.7

43.3

24.2

15.8

.270

49.2

OBP

.321

SLG

.381

OPS

.702

30.8

wRC+

98.3

34.2

OPS+

100.6

36.7

wOBA

.323

28.3

sWAR

2.1

35.8

of 121 qualified 1969 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

102.4

46.3

OPS+

102.8

47.4

sWAR

14.5

90.7

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
1966	61	268	254	35	67	12	4	3	17	11	36	3	3	.264	.297	.378	.675	94.5	95.5	.304	0.5
1967	79	237	230	18	48	7	1	2	10	5	37	3	2	.209	.226	.274	.499	42.2	49.4	.231	-0.7
1968	41	124	115	11	30	4	1	0	3	7	15	2	1	.261	.303	.313	.616	90.9	90.1	.292	0.3
1969	148	597	540	64	146	20	5	10	59	38	75	3	9	.270	.321	.381	.702	98.3	100.6	.323	2.1
1970	119	351	320	34	76	10	5	11	39	24	53	1	0	.238	.290	.403	.693	86.3	93.3	.307	0.7
1971	124	436	388	53	101	14	1	16	40	38	50	10	5	.260	.329	.425	.755	111.1	110.7	.346	2.0
1972	113	290	261	27	49	9	0	4	17	25	42	2	1	.188	.259	.268	.527	51.7	56.5	.254	-0.6
1973	23	30	28	1	3	1	0	0	3	2	4	0	1	.107	.167	.143	.310	-13.4	-9.0	.156	-0.4
1974	64	224	200	30	59	10	4	6	30	24	28	5	5	.295	.371	.475	.846	133.1	131.9	.388	1.2
1975	122	398	350	50	115	19	2	7	54	42	39	7	3	.329	.397	.454	.852	136.5	133.5	.394	2.5
1976	129	491	440	62	140	38	4	5	53	41	39	5	5	.318	.373	.457	.830	135.4	133.9	.382	3.0
1977	112	411	363	64	103	18	4	15	59	38	38	3	7	.284	.349	.479	.828	118.1	118.2	.367	1.7
1978	71	135	121	9	27	2	0	1	10	10	19	0	3	.223	.296	.264	.561	63.1	60.8	.272	-0.4
1979	98	275	249	17	69	9	2	1	39	20	28	2	3	.277	.328	.341	.670	87.2	88.0	.309	0.0
1980	109	279	251	31	77	15	2	2	20	24	29	3	2	.307	.372	.406	.778	126.4	120.2	.364	1.5
1981	61	90	83	8	17	3	0	3	6	7	13	0	1	.205	.267	.349	.616	77.3	77.9	.290	-0.1
1982	119	332	282	40	68	14	1	10	45	45	43	0	2	.241	.341	.404	.746	103.8	105.3	.338	0.7
1983	86	165	140	16	36	7	0	6	22	20	24	1	1	.257	.362	.436	.798	113.8	116.4	.358	0.6
1984	52	80	73	8	21	2	2	0	3	7	18	0	0	.288	.350	.370	.720	85.9	95.9	.319	0.0
1985	17	16	15	0	2	1	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	.133	.188	.200	.388	-20.0	10.7	.150	-0.2

Career totals

1,748

466th-most career G

5,229

4,703

578

1,254

215

102

RBI

531

429

632

.2666

OBP

.3286

SLG

.3936

OPS

.7222

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
1971-08-20	CWS @ CLE Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	4	1	9
1977-07-05	NYM @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	4	0	9
1974-08-06	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	3	0	9
1977-07-17	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	2	0	9
1976-05-25	NYM @ PHI Gameday	5	3	4	1	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.