MLB / Players

John Bateman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 210 lb

BornJuly 21, 1940 · Fort Sill, OK, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1963

Final gameOctober 3, 1972

Seasons10 (1963–1972)

Houston Colt .45's 1963–1964; Houston Astros 1965–1968; Montreal Expos 1969–1972; Philadelphia Phillies 1972

Percentile snapshot

1971 season — qualified batters

139

526

10.7

492

25.9

119

13.4

31.3

35.7

RBI

37.5

0.9

7.1

91.1

.242

10.7

OBP

.273

0.9

SLG

.350

OPS

.623

9.8

wRC+

69.6

6.3

OPS+

75.0

wOBA

.285

6.3

sWAR

1.1

of 113 qualified 1971 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

67.4

2.4

OPS+

75.7

sWAR

6.7

82.4

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
1963	128	434	404	23	85	8	6	10	59	13	103	0	0	.210	.249	.334	.583	67.3	71.2	.264	0.9
1964	74	241	221	18	42	8	0	5	19	17	48	0	1	.190	.249	.294	.543	50.3	57.6	.242	0.0
1965	45	157	142	15	28	3	1	7	14	12	37	0	1	.197	.256	.380	.637	73.7	81.3	.278	0.4
1966	131	468	433	39	121	24	3	17	70	20	74	0	0	.279	.315	.467	.781	114.2	119.3	.337	3.5
1967	76	273	252	16	48	9	0	2	17	17	53	0	0	.190	.245	.250	.495	27.8	44.0	.216	-0.8
1968	111	383	350	28	87	19	0	4	33	23	46	1	1	.249	.297	.337	.635	78.2	91.5	.281	1.4
1969	74	249	235	16	49	4	0	8	19	12	44	0	2	.209	.250	.328	.578	47.9	59.9	.257	-0.1
1970	139	557	520	51	123	21	5	15	68	28	75	8	4	.237	.275	.383	.658	66.9	73.9	.291	0.7
1971	139	526	492	34	119	17	3	10	56	19	87	1	0	.242	.273	.350	.623	69.6	75.0	.285	1.1
1972	100	297	281	10	63	10	0	3	20	11	43	0	1	.224	.253	.292	.545	39.4	53.0	.244	-0.3

Career totals

1,017

3,585

3,330

250

765

123

RBI

375

172

610

.2297

OBP

.2708

SLG

.3505

OPS

.6213

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	TB
1966-05-25	NYM @ HOU Gameday	3	2	3	0	1	1	2	8
1965-04-18	HOU @ PIT Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	8
1966-08-09	HOU @ CHC Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	8
1970-07-02	STL @ WSH Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	7	7
1970-09-29	WSH @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	4	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1967-05-30	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-07-22	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-07-23	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-09-29	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-09-30	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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.