John Vander Wal

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 180 lb

BornApril 29, 1966 · Grand Rapids, MI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 6, 1991

Final gameSeptember 27, 2004

Seasons14 (1991–2004)

Montreal Expos 1991–1993; Colorado Rockies 1994–1998; San Diego Padres 1998–1999; Pittsburgh Pirates 2000–2001; San Francisco Giants 2001; New York Yankees 2002; Milwaukee Brewers 2003; Cincinnati Reds 2004

Percentile snapshot

2001 season — qualified batters

146

37.8

527

14.7

452

4.5

10.3

122

10.3

34.6

62.2

33.3

RBI

71.2

122

17.3

44.9

26.9

.270

38.5

OBP

.364

62.2

SLG

.442

42.3

OPS

.806

51.3

wRC+

109.7

53.8

OPS+

109.3

53.2

wOBA

.352

50.6

sWAR

1.6

30.8

of 157 qualified 2001 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

104.5

51.3

OPS+

103.8

49.9

sWAR

7.2

83.2

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
1991	21	63	61	4	13	4	1	1	8	1	18	0	0	.213	.222	.361	.583	56.1	63.5	.259	-0.2
1992	105	237	213	21	51	8	2	4	20	24	36	3	0	.239	.316	.352	.669	92.0	90.7	.312	0.2
1993	106	244	215	34	50	7	4	5	30	27	30	6	3	.233	.320	.372	.692	85.1	83.9	.316	-0.2
1994	91	127	110	12	27	3	1	5	15	16	31	2	1	.245	.339	.427	.766	84.1	83.0	.345	0.0
1995	105	118	101	15	35	8	1	5	21	16	23	1	1	.347	.432	.594	1.026	142.9	144.1	.437	0.9
1996	104	173	151	20	38	6	2	5	31	19	38	2	2	.252	.335	.417	.752	76.7	80.2	.335	-0.2
1997	76	102	92	7	16	2	0	1	11	10	33	1	1	.174	.255	.228	.483	7.7	16.9	.234	-1.0
1998	109	152	129	21	36	13	1	5	20	22	34	0	0	.279	.382	.512	.893	122.5	117.6	.394	0.7
1999	132	288	246	26	67	18	0	6	41	37	59	2	1	.272	.368	.419	.787	108.8	106.1	.355	0.8
2000	134	461	384	74	115	29	0	24	94	72	92	11	2	.299	.410	.563	.972	144.4	143.6	.420	3.4
2001	146	527	452	58	122	28	4	14	70	68	122	8	6	.270	.364	.442	.806	109.7	109.3	.352	1.6
2002	84	245	219	30	57	17	1	6	20	23	58	1	1	.260	.327	.429	.756	99.0	101.6	.327	0.3
2003	117	374	327	50	84	25	1	14	45	46	104	1	2	.257	.350	.468	.818	113.1	111.5	.360	1.4
2004	42	55	51	2	6	2	0	2	4	4	20	0	0	.118	.182	.275	.456	9.5	16.7	.205	-0.5

Career totals

1,372

3,166

2,751

374

717

170

RBI

430

385

698

.2606

OBP

.3508

SLG

.4413

OPS

.7921

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	HR	RBI	TB
2003-04-25	MIL @ ATL Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	6	10
2000-06-21	PIT @ WSH Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	5	10
2000-07-30	SD @ PIT Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	2	8
2001-04-18	HOU @ PIT Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	2	8
2003-08-08	MIA @ MIL Gameday	4	2	3	2	1	1	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.