John Milner

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornDecember 28, 1949 · Atlanta, GA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 15, 1971

Final gameOctober 3, 1982

Seasons12 (1971–1982)

New York Mets 1971–1977; Pittsburgh Pirates 1978–1980; Montreal Expos 1981; Pittsburgh Pirates 1981; Montreal Expos 1982; Pittsburgh Pirates 1982

Percentile snapshot

1976 season — qualified batters

127

1.7

511

5.1

443

5.1

23.7

120

11.9

58.5

48.3

68.6

RBI

70.3

77.1

64.4

38.1

.271

54.2

OBP

.362

74.6

SLG

.447

76.3

OPS

.809

81.4

wRC+

139.9

86.4

OPS+

136.0

85.6

wOBA

.379

83.9

sWAR

3.5

63.6

of 119 qualified 1976 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

114.3

70.3

OPS+

112.6

67.4

sWAR

13.0

89.6

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
1971	9	18	18	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	.167	.167	.222	.389	-3.9	10.8	.178	-0.2
1972	117	423	362	52	86	12	2	17	38	51	74	2	1	.238	.340	.423	.762	125.2	119.6	.355	2.1
1973	129	519	451	69	108	12	3	23	72	62	84	1	1	.239	.329	.432	.762	112.3	112.3	.347	1.5
1974	137	576	507	70	128	19	0	20	63	66	77	10	2	.252	.337	.408	.745	110.0	110.6	.346	1.4
1975	91	255	220	24	42	11	0	7	29	33	22	1	1	.191	.302	.336	.638	81.7	81.8	.303	-0.1
1976	127	511	443	56	120	25	4	15	78	65	53	0	7	.271	.362	.447	.809	139.9	136.0	.379	3.5
1977	131	453	388	43	99	20	3	12	57	61	55	6	2	.255	.353	.415	.768	111.3	110.6	.347	1.3
1978	108	333	295	39	80	17	0	6	38	34	25	5	0	.271	.342	.390	.732	101.4	102.2	.336	0.5
1979	128	386	326	52	90	9	4	16	60	53	37	3	5	.276	.373	.475	.849	128.4	127.0	.381	1.9
1980	114	292	238	31	58	6	0	8	34	52	29	2	2	.244	.378	.370	.748	118.8	108.7	.358	0.9
1981	65	154	135	12	32	6	0	5	18	17	9	0	1	.237	.320	.393	.713	100.1	100.5	.330	0.2
1982	59	65	53	6	9	2	0	2	10	10	5	1	0	.170	.308	.321	.628	77.0	75.4	.298	0.0

Career totals

1,215

3,985

3,436

455

855

140

131

RBI

498

504

473

.2488

OBP

.3441

SLG

.4133

OPS

.7574

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1972-09-08	STL @ NYM Gameday	5	1	5	1	1	2	0	9
1978-06-24	PIT @ NYM Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	4	1	9
1973-08-18	CIN @ NYM Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	4	0	8
1976-04-13	NYM @ CHC Gameday	5	1	3	2	1	2	0	8
1976-09-27	WSH @ NYM Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	6	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.