John Stephenson
New York Mets 1964–1966; Chicago Cubs 1967–1968; San Francisco Giants 1969–1970; California Angels 1971–1973
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 37 | 62 | 57 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .158 | .226 | .211 | .436 | 22.5 | 23.8 | .211 | -0.4 |
| 1965 | 62 | 131 | 121 | 9 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 8 | 19 | 0 | 1 | .215 | .264 | .355 | .619 | 68.4 | 74.1 | .275 | 0.4 |
| 1966 | 63 | 153 | 143 | 17 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 28 | 0 | 0 | .196 | .248 | .238 | .486 | 35.3 | 36.8 | .230 | -0.3 |
| 1967 | 18 | 52 | 49 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .224 | .255 | .327 | .581 | 52.4 | 62.1 | .260 | 0.0 |
| 1968 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -143.0 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1969 | 22 | 29 | 27 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .214 | .296 | .511 | 31.4 | 43.3 | .228 | -0.1 |
| 1970 | 23 | 46 | 43 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .070 | .109 | .093 | .202 | -54.7 | -44.9 | .101 | -0.7 |
| 1971 | 98 | 308 | 279 | 24 | 61 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 25 | 22 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .219 | .281 | .312 | .593 | 67.5 | 74.7 | .272 | 0.7 |
| 1972 | 66 | 161 | 146 | 14 | 40 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .274 | .342 | .349 | .691 | 107.6 | 111.9 | .319 | 1.3 |
| 1973 | 60 | 132 | 122 | 9 | 30 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .246 | .292 | .311 | .604 | 73.7 | 76.4 | .281 | 0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965-09-16 | CIN @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1973-07-29 | LAA @ KC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1971-07-25 | LAA @ BAL Gameday | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1971-05-23 | CWS @ LAA Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1966-08-04 | SF @ NYM Gameday | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
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.