John Hale
Los Angeles Dodgers 1974–1977; Seattle Mariners 1978–1979
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.250 | 2.250 | 587.8 | 545.5 | 1.045 | 0.2 |
| 1975 | 71 | 238 | 204 | 20 | 43 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 22 | 26 | 51 | 1 | 2 | .211 | .303 | .333 | .637 | 80.0 | 82.2 | .299 | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 44 | 112 | 91 | 4 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 1 | .154 | .291 | .198 | .489 | 51.3 | 43.7 | .254 | -0.4 |
| 1977 | 79 | 124 | 108 | 10 | 26 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 15 | 28 | 2 | 1 | .241 | .331 | .352 | .682 | 88.3 | 85.8 | .316 | -0.1 |
| 1978 | 107 | 251 | 211 | 24 | 36 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 22 | 34 | 64 | 3 | 4 | .171 | .283 | .265 | .549 | 57.7 | 55.3 | .267 | -0.8 |
| 1979 | 54 | 77 | 63 | 6 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 26 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .342 | .365 | .707 | 79.8 | 89.3 | .308 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-06-03 | TOR @ SEA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1978-06-27 | CWS @ SEA Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1978-06-02 | BAL @ SEA Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1979-06-08 | CLE @ SEA Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 1975-07-05 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
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.