John Olerud

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 205 lb

BornAugust 5, 1968 · Seattle, WA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 3, 1989

Final gameOctober 2, 2005

Seasons17 (1989–2005)

Toronto Blue Jays 1989–1996; New York Mets 1997–1999; Seattle Mariners 2000–2003; New York Yankees 2004; Seattle Mariners 2004; Boston Red Sox 2005

Percentile snapshot

2003 season — qualified batters

152

60.6

634

60.6

539

51.5

16.4

145

42.4

67.9

18.2

RBI

58.2

85.5

74.5

76.4

.269

33.3

OBP

.372

73.3

SLG

.390

OPS

.761

31.5

wRC+

110.0

51.5

OPS+

106.8

46.7

wOBA

.343

sWAR

1.7

30.3

of 166 qualified 2003 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

130.1

90.5

OPS+

129.7

90.4

sWAR

45.6

98.5

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
1989	6	8	8	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.375	.375	.375	.750	116.2	114.7	.347	0.0
1990	111	421	358	43	95	15	1	14	48	57	75	0	2	.265	.364	.430	.794	123.0	121.9	.361	1.3
1991	139	541	454	64	116	30	1	17	68	68	84	0	2	.256	.353	.438	.791	114.6	116.3	.353	1.6
1992	138	537	458	68	130	28	0	16	66	70	61	1	0	.284	.375	.450	.825	127.5	128.1	.372	2.4
1993	158	679	551	109	200	54	2	24	107	114	65	0	2	.363	.473	.599	1.072	182.3	187.0	.463	7.4
1994	108	453	384	47	114	29	2	12	67	61	53	1	2	.297	.393	.477	.869	120.7	123.4	.379	1.8
1995	135	581	492	72	143	32	0	8	54	84	54	0	0	.291	.398	.404	.802	113.6	110.6	.365	1.9
1996	125	469	398	59	109	25	0	18	61	60	37	1	0	.274	.382	.472	.854	116.7	115.7	.376	1.6
1997	154	630	524	90	154	34	1	22	102	85	67	0	0	.294	.400	.489	.889	138.3	135.8	.395	3.9
1998	160	665	557	91	197	36	4	22	93	96	73	2	2	.354	.447	.551	.998	166.4	164.2	.436	6.3
1999	162	723	581	107	173	39	0	19	96	125	66	3	0	.298	.427	.463	.890	136.1	130.8	.401	4.4
2000	159	683	565	84	161	45	0	14	103	102	96	0	2	.285	.392	.439	.831	115.3	115.2	.368	2.3
2001	159	679	572	91	173	32	1	21	95	94	70	3	1	.302	.401	.472	.873	134.9	137.8	.377	3.8
2002	154	668	553	85	166	39	0	22	102	98	66	0	0	.300	.403	.490	.893	143.2	142.9	.389	4.5
2003	152	634	539	64	145	35	0	10	83	84	67	0	1	.269	.372	.390	.761	110.0	106.8	.343	1.7
2004	127	500	425	45	110	20	1	9	48	61	61	0	0	.259	.359	.374	.733	95.7	92.7	.331	0.4
2005	87	192	173	18	50	7	0	7	37	16	20	0	0	.289	.344	.451	.795	105.6	107.6	.343	0.1

Career totals

2,234

137th-most career G

9,063

155th-most career PA

7,592

207th-most career AB

1,139

234th-most career R

2,239

177th-most career H

500

64th-most career 2B

255

243rd-most career HR

RBI

1,230

147th-most career RBI

1,275

52nd-most career BB

1,016

379th-most career SO

.2949

308th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3980

75th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4650

333rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8630

143rd-highest career OPS

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	TB
1994-04-11	TOR @ ATH Gameday	5	4	4	1	0	2	4	11
1997-09-11	WSH @ NYM Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	5	10
1998-07-11	WSH @ NYM Gameday	4	3	4	0	0	2	3	10
2001-06-16	SEA @ SD Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	2	10
2005-09-01	TB @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	6	10

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

3× Gold Glove2× 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.