MLB / Players

John Castino

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornOctober 23, 1954 · Evanston, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 6, 1979

Final gameMay 7, 1984

Seasons6 (1979–1984)

Minnesota Twins 1979–1984

Percentile snapshot

1983 season — qualified batters

142

25.4

640

70.8

563

66.9

73.1

156

63.1

72.3

46.9

37.7

RBI

33.8

73.1

74.6

31.5

78.5

.277

53.8

OBP

.348

63.1

SLG

.403

40.8

OPS

.751

47.7

wRC+

106.5

46.9

OPS+

103.3

42.3

wOBA

.342

49.2

sWAR

2.9

62.3

of 131 qualified 1983 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.1

85.9

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
1979	148	445	393	49	112	13	8	5	52	27	72	5	2	.285	.331	.397	.728	94.6	93.5	.331	1.5
1980	150	599	546	67	165	17	7	13	64	29	67	7	5	.302	.336	.430	.766	103.8	103.2	.346	2.6
1981	101	409	381	41	102	13	9	6	36	18	52	4	5	.268	.301	.396	.697	93.2	96.6	.317	1.3
1982	117	453	410	48	99	12	6	6	37	36	51	2	5	.241	.304	.344	.648	75.6	75.6	.297	0.4
1983	142	640	563	83	156	30	4	11	57	62	54	4	2	.277	.348	.403	.751	106.5	103.3	.342	2.9
1984	8	32	27	5	12	1	0	0	3	5	2	0	0	.444	.531	.481	1.013	182.2	178.3	.452	0.4

Career totals

666

2,578

2,320

293

646

RBI

249

177

298

.2784

OBP

.3292

SLG

.3978

OPS

.7270

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
1983-07-29	SEA @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	1	8
1980-06-30	MIN @ KC Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	5	7
1983-04-22	MIN @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	2	7
1980-07-20	MIN @ BOS Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	1	1	7
1980-08-18	LAA @ MIN Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	1	2	7

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

1× Rookie of the Year

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.