John Romano
Chicago White Sox 1958–1959; Cleveland Indians 1960–1964; Chicago White Sox 1965–1966; St. Louis Cardinals 1967
Percentile snapshot
1962 season — qualified batters
of 104 qualified 1962 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .375 | .286 | .661 | 97.3 | 88.6 | .322 | 0.0 |
| 1959 | 53 | 153 | 126 | 20 | 37 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 25 | 23 | 18 | 0 | 1 | .294 | .407 | .468 | .875 | 149.5 | 143.4 | .401 | 1.8 |
| 1960 | 108 | 361 | 316 | 40 | 86 | 12 | 2 | 16 | 52 | 37 | 50 | 0 | 0 | .272 | .349 | .475 | .824 | 121.5 | 124.0 | .365 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 142 | 580 | 509 | 76 | 152 | 29 | 1 | 21 | 80 | 61 | 60 | 0 | 0 | .299 | .377 | .483 | .860 | 132.1 | 131.2 | .384 | 5.4 |
| 1962 | 135 | 548 | 459 | 71 | 120 | 19 | 3 | 25 | 81 | 73 | 64 | 0 | 1 | .261 | .363 | .479 | .842 | 129.3 | 127.6 | .375 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 89 | 300 | 255 | 28 | 55 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 34 | 38 | 49 | 4 | 3 | .216 | .317 | .369 | .685 | 91.4 | 92.4 | .309 | 1.3 |
| 1964 | 106 | 415 | 352 | 46 | 85 | 18 | 1 | 19 | 47 | 51 | 83 | 2 | 2 | .241 | .346 | .460 | .806 | 123.9 | 123.2 | .357 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 122 | 425 | 356 | 39 | 86 | 11 | 0 | 18 | 48 | 59 | 74 | 0 | 2 | .242 | .355 | .424 | .779 | 132.6 | 129.1 | .357 | 4.1 |
| 1966 | 122 | 395 | 329 | 33 | 76 | 12 | 0 | 15 | 47 | 58 | 72 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .344 | .404 | .749 | 123.5 | 123.3 | .337 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 24 | 71 | 58 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 1 | 0 | .121 | .282 | .138 | .420 | 41.4 | 25.9 | .235 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-06-06 | CLE @ TEX Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
| 1962-09-19 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| 1964-04-28 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| 1964-07-21 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| 1962-05-21 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.