John Flaherty
Boston Red Sox 1992–1993; Detroit Tigers 1994–1996; San Diego Padres 1996–1997; Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1998–2002; New York Yankees 2003–2005
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 35 | 71 | 66 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .197 | .229 | .227 | .456 | 17.3 | 25.6 | .215 | -0.2 |
| 1993 | 13 | 29 | 25 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .120 | .214 | .200 | .414 | 8.5 | 9.8 | .206 | -0.1 |
| 1994 | 34 | 44 | 40 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 1 | .150 | .167 | .175 | .342 | -19.2 | -11.8 | .156 | -0.2 |
| 1995 | 112 | 385 | 354 | 39 | 86 | 22 | 1 | 11 | 40 | 18 | 47 | 0 | 0 | .243 | .284 | .404 | .688 | 73.9 | 76.4 | .304 | 0.9 |
| 1996 | 119 | 444 | 416 | 40 | 118 | 24 | 0 | 13 | 64 | 17 | 61 | 3 | 3 | .284 | .314 | .435 | .749 | 92.6 | 95.6 | .328 | 2.0 |
| 1997 | 129 | 476 | 439 | 38 | 120 | 21 | 1 | 9 | 46 | 33 | 62 | 4 | 4 | .273 | .323 | .387 | .710 | 87.7 | 91.3 | .315 | 1.9 |
| 1998 | 91 | 334 | 304 | 21 | 63 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 24 | 22 | 46 | 0 | 5 | .207 | .261 | .273 | .534 | 36.9 | 39.0 | .245 | -0.7 |
| 1999 | 117 | 482 | 446 | 53 | 124 | 19 | 0 | 14 | 71 | 19 | 64 | 0 | 2 | .278 | .310 | .415 | .725 | 79.3 | 82.5 | .317 | 1.2 |
| 2000 | 109 | 418 | 394 | 36 | 103 | 15 | 0 | 10 | 39 | 20 | 57 | 0 | 0 | .261 | .296 | .376 | .671 | 67.3 | 70.2 | .295 | 0.5 |
| 2001 | 78 | 265 | 248 | 20 | 59 | 17 | 1 | 4 | 29 | 10 | 33 | 1 | 0 | .238 | .269 | .363 | .632 | 62.7 | 66.2 | .276 | 0.3 |
| 2002 | 76 | 303 | 281 | 27 | 73 | 20 | 0 | 4 | 33 | 15 | 50 | 2 | 2 | .260 | .296 | .374 | .669 | 76.8 | 78.3 | .295 | 0.8 |
| 2003 | 40 | 116 | 105 | 16 | 28 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 4 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .267 | .297 | .457 | .754 | 93.9 | 98.1 | .321 | 0.6 |
| 2004 | 47 | 135 | 127 | 11 | 32 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 16 | 5 | 25 | 0 | 2 | .252 | .286 | .465 | .750 | 87.0 | 92.8 | .316 | 0.6 |
| 2005 | 47 | 138 | 127 | 10 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 26 | 0 | 0 | .165 | .206 | .252 | .458 | 17.4 | 22.5 | .205 | -0.6 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999-09-17 | TB @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1996-04-16 | DET @ TOR Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1997-05-01 | SD @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1999-05-17 | TB @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 1995-06-11 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 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.