John Martin
St. Louis Cardinals 1980–1982; Detroit Tigers 1983; St. Louis Cardinals 1983
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 9 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .308 | .273 | .580 | 58.0 | 61.6 | .273 | 0.2 |
| 1981 | 18 | 42 | 33 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .212 | .257 | .333 | .590 | 61.9 | 65.2 | .277 | 1.4 |
| 1982 | 24 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .167 | .091 | .258 | -29.9 | -25.9 | .141 | 0.1 |
| 1983 | 41 | 20 | 18 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .222 | .278 | .500 | 29.8 | 38.4 | .229 | 0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 20 | 9 | 23 | 1 | 42.0 | 4.29 | 1.143 | 4.93 | 2.60 | 70.1 | 86.6 | 0.2 |
| 1981 | 17 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 85 | 39 | 26 | 36 | 10 | 102.7 | 3.42 | 1.081 | 3.16 | 4.05 | 113.5 | 104.4 | 1.4 |
| 1982 | 24 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 31 | 30 | 21 | 6 | 66.0 | 4.23 | 1.303 | 2.86 | 4.66 | 128.3 | 85.9 | 0.1 |
| 1983 | 41 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 37 | 30 | 40 | 8 | 79.7 | 4.18 | 1.318 | 4.52 | 4.21 | 114.4 | 88.1 | 0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983-06-01 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1981-06-01 | WSH @ STL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1981-06-06 | SD @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1981-08-30 | STL @ SD Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1981-09-04 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-10-05 | NYM @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1981-09-15 | STL @ WSH Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 1980-08-27 | HOU @ STL Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1983-07-27 | SF @ STL Gameday | 5.1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1981-10-03 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
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.