John Valentin
Boston Red Sox 1992–2001; New York Mets 2002
Percentile snapshot
1999 season — qualified batters
of 158 qualified 1999 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 58 | 212 | 185 | 21 | 51 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 25 | 20 | 17 | 1 | 0 | .276 | .351 | .427 | .778 | 116.4 | 112.6 | .359 | 1.4 |
| 1993 | 144 | 539 | 468 | 50 | 130 | 40 | 3 | 11 | 66 | 49 | 77 | 3 | 4 | .278 | .346 | .447 | .793 | 108.0 | 106.9 | .357 | 3.0 |
| 1994 | 84 | 355 | 301 | 53 | 95 | 26 | 2 | 9 | 49 | 42 | 38 | 3 | 1 | .316 | .400 | .505 | .905 | 130.8 | 128.6 | .399 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 135 | 621 | 520 | 108 | 155 | 37 | 2 | 27 | 102 | 81 | 67 | 20 | 5 | .298 | .399 | .533 | .931 | 139.2 | 137.6 | .410 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 131 | 606 | 527 | 84 | 156 | 29 | 3 | 13 | 59 | 63 | 59 | 9 | 10 | .296 | .374 | .436 | .811 | 106.4 | 103.4 | .363 | 3.0 |
| 1997 | 143 | 644 | 575 | 95 | 176 | 47 | 5 | 18 | 77 | 58 | 66 | 7 | 4 | .306 | .372 | .499 | .871 | 124.5 | 124.0 | .380 | 4.3 |
| 1998 | 153 | 681 | 588 | 113 | 145 | 44 | 1 | 23 | 73 | 77 | 82 | 4 | 5 | .247 | .340 | .442 | .782 | 102.4 | 101.6 | .345 | 2.7 |
| 1999 | 113 | 503 | 450 | 58 | 114 | 27 | 1 | 12 | 70 | 40 | 68 | 0 | 1 | .253 | .315 | .398 | .713 | 78.4 | 80.4 | .315 | 0.5 |
| 2000 | 10 | 38 | 35 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | .257 | .297 | .457 | .754 | 84.0 | 86.1 | .327 | 0.1 |
| 2001 | 20 | 70 | 60 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .314 | .283 | .598 | 66.2 | 59.8 | .284 | 0.0 |
| 2002 | 114 | 242 | 208 | 18 | 50 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 30 | 22 | 37 | 0 | 0 | .240 | .339 | .356 | .695 | 91.7 | 86.8 | .323 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995-06-02 | SEA @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 15 |
| 1999-10-10 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 11 |
| 1996-06-06 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 1997-08-13 | TEX @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 1995-08-10 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
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.