John Stearns
Philadelphia Phillies 1974; New York Mets 1975–1984
Percentile snapshot
1979 season — qualified batters
of 140 qualified 1979 batters (min 505 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 190.1 | 176.4 | .472 | 0.0 |
| 1975 | 59 | 193 | 169 | 25 | 32 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 17 | 15 | 4 | 1 | .189 | .268 | .284 | .552 | 50.9 | 57.6 | .258 | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 32 | 121 | 103 | 13 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 2 | .262 | .364 | .379 | .742 | 124.8 | 117.8 | .357 | 1.1 |
| 1977 | 139 | 520 | 431 | 52 | 108 | 25 | 1 | 12 | 55 | 77 | 76 | 9 | 8 | .251 | .370 | .397 | .767 | 115.1 | 111.1 | .353 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 143 | 563 | 477 | 65 | 126 | 24 | 1 | 15 | 73 | 70 | 57 | 25 | 13 | .264 | .364 | .413 | .777 | 125.4 | 120.5 | .362 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 155 | 602 | 538 | 58 | 131 | 29 | 2 | 9 | 66 | 52 | 57 | 15 | 15 | .243 | .312 | .355 | .667 | 84.6 | 84.5 | .308 | 1.8 |
| 1980 | 91 | 363 | 319 | 42 | 91 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 45 | 33 | 24 | 7 | 3 | .285 | .346 | .370 | .716 | 105.6 | 102.8 | .334 | 2.0 |
| 1981 | 80 | 305 | 273 | 25 | 74 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 24 | 17 | 12 | 2 | .271 | .329 | .333 | .662 | 91.2 | 89.7 | .314 | 1.2 |
| 1982 | 98 | 392 | 352 | 46 | 103 | 25 | 3 | 4 | 28 | 30 | 35 | 17 | 7 | .293 | .349 | .415 | .764 | 116.5 | 113.7 | .353 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1984 | 8 | 21 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .176 | .333 | .235 | .569 | 79.2 | 64.4 | .296 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-09-08 | NYM @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1982-05-22 | NYM @ HOU Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 1978-08-09 | NYM @ WSH Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 1978-06-14 | NYM @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1978-06-28 | NYM @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
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.