John Russell
Philadelphia Phillies 1984–1988; Atlanta Braves 1989; Texas Rangers 1990–1993
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 39 | 114 | 99 | 11 | 28 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 33 | 0 | 1 | .283 | .351 | .444 | .795 | 118.7 | 121.6 | .357 | 0.5 |
| 1985 | 81 | 234 | 216 | 22 | 47 | 12 | 0 | 9 | 23 | 18 | 72 | 2 | 0 | .218 | .278 | .398 | .676 | 85.0 | 85.2 | .310 | -0.1 |
| 1986 | 93 | 348 | 315 | 35 | 76 | 21 | 2 | 13 | 60 | 25 | 103 | 0 | 1 | .241 | .300 | .444 | .744 | 98.1 | 100.1 | .333 | 1.9 |
| 1987 | 24 | 65 | 62 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 1 | .145 | .185 | .306 | .491 | 17.5 | 25.6 | .219 | -0.5 |
| 1988 | 22 | 53 | 49 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .245 | .302 | .388 | .690 | 97.3 | 94.8 | .320 | 0.3 |
| 1989 | 74 | 169 | 159 | 14 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 53 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .225 | .233 | .458 | 21.6 | 29.2 | .215 | -0.7 |
| 1990 | 68 | 140 | 128 | 16 | 35 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 41 | 1 | 0 | .273 | .331 | .352 | .682 | 89.9 | 91.5 | .313 | 0.3 |
| 1991 | 22 | 29 | 27 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .138 | .111 | .249 | -39.9 | -29.5 | .121 | -0.5 |
| 1992 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .231 | .100 | .331 | 4.9 | -2.5 | .187 | -0.1 |
| 1993 | 18 | 24 | 22 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .292 | .409 | .701 | 89.9 | 89.8 | .317 | 0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.00 | .000 | 0.00 | 2.66 | 73.3 | — | -0.7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986-06-24 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1988-07-09 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1985-08-05 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1986-08-02 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1985-07-22 | HOU @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989-06-25 | HOU @ ATL Gameday | 0.1 | 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.