John Mayberry

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 215 lb

BornFebruary 18, 1949 · Detroit, MI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1968

Final gameSeptember 28, 1982

Seasons15 (1968–1982)

Houston Astros 1968–1971; Kansas City Royals 1972–1977; Toronto Blue Jays 1978–1981; New York Yankees 1982; Toronto Blue Jays 1982

Percentile snapshot

1981 season — qualified batters

19.7

344

6.6

290

1.5

10.2

2.2

89.1

RBI

57.7

48.2

11.7

84.7

.248

OBP

.360

70.1

SLG

.452

80.3

OPS

.812

80.3

wRC+

131.7

78.1

OPS+

128.6

75.9

wOBA

.372

78.8

sWAR

1.6

40.1

of 138 qualified 1981 batters (min 328 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

123.3

83.8

OPS+

122.9

83.4

sWAR

26.1

95.7

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
1968	4	10	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.100	.000	.100	-79.1	-67.6	.075	-0.2
1969	5	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.000	.200	.000	.200	-22.3	-38.8	.151	-0.1
1970	50	174	148	23	32	3	2	5	14	21	33	1	1	.216	.318	.365	.683	80.4	86.4	.304	-0.2
1971	46	154	137	16	25	0	1	7	14	13	32	0	0	.182	.260	.350	.610	68.2	74.0	.278	-0.4
1972	149	588	503	65	150	24	3	25	100	78	74	0	2	.298	.394	.507	.900	170.7	164.2	.411	5.4
1973	152	638	510	87	142	20	2	26	100	122	79	3	0	.278	.417	.478	.895	149.6	146.7	.407	4.6
1974	126	512	427	63	100	13	1	22	69	77	72	4	2	.234	.358	.424	.782	121.5	120.1	.360	1.9
1975	156	683	554	95	161	38	1	34	106	119	73	5	3	.291	.416	.547	.963	168.7	169.1	.431	6.4
1976	161	690	594	76	138	22	2	13	95	82	73	3	2	.232	.322	.342	.663	95.8	95.5	.314	0.6
1977	153	641	543	73	125	22	1	23	82	83	86	1	3	.230	.336	.401	.737	101.0	101.2	.331	1.0
1978	152	587	515	51	129	15	2	22	70	60	57	1	2	.250	.329	.416	.745	106.8	105.9	.340	1.2
1979	137	541	464	61	127	22	1	21	74	69	60	1	1	.274	.372	.461	.833	123.3	122.0	.373	2.3
1980	149	588	501	62	124	19	2	30	82	77	80	0	0	.248	.349	.473	.822	119.2	119.8	.365	2.1
1981	94	344	290	34	72	6	1	17	43	44	45	1	1	.248	.360	.452	.812	131.7	128.6	.372	1.6
1982	86	291	248	27	54	7	0	10	30	35	43	0	0	.218	.326	.367	.693	93.1	91.4	.317	0.0

Career totals

1,620

6,446

5,447

733

1,379

211

255

243rd-most career HR

RBI

879

427th-most career RBI

881

194th-most career BB

810

.2532

OBP

.3597

489th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4393

OPS

.7990

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
1977-06-01	KC @ TOR Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	3	5	0	12
1975-07-01	KC @ TEX Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	3	0	12
1973-05-22	KC @ MIN Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	2	4	1	11
1980-04-09	TOR @ SEA Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	2	3	0	11
1977-08-05	CWS @ KC Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	2	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1968-05-04	ATL @ HOU Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-05-05	ATL @ HOU Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-06-14	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-06-16	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-07-06	HOU @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.

Honors

2× All-Star

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