John Costello
St. Louis Cardinals 1988–1989; Montreal Expos 1990; St. Louis Cardinals 1990; San Diego Padres 1991
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 36 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.4 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.5 |
| 1989 | 48 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -129.0 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 1991 | 27 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.2 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.6 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 36 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 10 | 25 | 38 | 3 | 49.7 | 1.81 | 1.389 | 6.89 | 3.47 | 100.4 | 190.9 | 1.5 |
| 1989 | 48 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 23 | 20 | 40 | 5 | 62.3 | 3.32 | 1.091 | 5.78 | 3.48 | 96.9 | 108.1 | 0.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10.7 | 5.91 | 1.313 | 1.69 | 6.93 | 186.6 | 63.0 | -0.2 |
| 1991 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 12 | 17 | 24 | 2 | 35.0 | 3.09 | 1.543 | 6.17 | 3.62 | 96.0 | 122.2 | 0.6 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988-06-02 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988-06-03 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988-06-10 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988-06-21 | STL @ WSH Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988-06-24 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988-08-11 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 3.1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1988-08-06 | WSH @ STL Gameday | 3.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1988-10-02 | STL @ NYM Gameday | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1989-07-19 | STL @ SF Gameday | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1989-05-23 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 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.