Johnny Damon

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 205 lb

BornNovember 5, 1973 · Fort Riley, KS, USA

MLB debutAugust 12, 1995

Final gameAugust 1, 2012

Seasons18 (1995–2012)

Kansas City Royals 1995–2000; Oakland Athletics 2001; Boston Red Sox 2002–2005; New York Yankees 2006–2009; Detroit Tigers 2010; Tampa Bay Rays 2011; Cleveland Indians 2012

Percentile snapshot

2011 season — qualified batters

150

57.6

647

70.1

582

77.1

152

61.8

54.9

87.5

42.4

RBI

52.1

59.7

74.3

25.7

.261

36.8

OBP

.326

32.6

SLG

.418

39.6

OPS

.743

37.5

wRC+

110.8

45.8

OPS+

110.1

45.8

wOBA

.329

35.4

sWAR

1.4

26.4

of 145 qualified 2011 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

105.9

53.6

OPS+

104.5

51.4

sWAR

38.9

97.8

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
1995	47	206	188	32	53	11	5	3	23	12	22	7	0	.282	.324	.441	.765	96.0	97.6	.338	0.6
1996	145	566	517	61	140	22	5	6	50	31	64	25	5	.271	.313	.368	.680	70.7	72.2	.303	-0.3
1997	146	524	472	70	130	12	8	8	48	42	70	16	10	.275	.338	.386	.723	88.4	87.2	.326	0.6
1998	161	710	642	104	178	30	10	18	66	58	84	26	12	.277	.339	.439	.779	98.8	99.0	.342	2.3
1999	145	660	583	101	179	39	9	14	77	67	50	36	6	.307	.379	.477	.856	116.0	115.3	.376	2.8
2000	159	741	655	136	214	42	10	16	88	65	60	46	9	.327	.382	.495	.877	117.0	117.3	.381	3.5
2001	155	719	644	108	165	34	4	9	49	61	70	27	12	.256	.324	.363	.687	84.5	82.6	.309	0.9
2002	154	702	623	118	178	34	11	14	63	65	70	31	6	.286	.356	.443	.799	110.3	109.4	.350	3.5
2003	145	690	608	103	166	32	6	12	67	68	74	30	6	.273	.345	.405	.750	96.2	95.1	.332	2.2
2004	150	702	621	123	189	35	6	20	94	76	71	19	8	.304	.380	.477	.857	122.3	118.9	.377	4.5
2005	148	688	624	117	197	35	6	10	75	53	69	18	1	.316	.366	.439	.805	112.7	111.6	.353	3.7
2006	149	671	593	115	169	35	5	24	80	67	85	25	10	.285	.359	.482	.841	117.2	115.4	.367	3.8
2007	141	605	533	93	144	27	2	12	63	66	79	27	3	.270	.351	.396	.747	100.5	97.2	.339	1.5
2008	143	623	555	95	168	27	5	17	71	64	82	29	8	.303	.375	.461	.836	124.7	120.6	.374	3.4
2009	143	626	550	107	155	36	3	24	82	71	98	12	0	.282	.365	.489	.854	123.5	120.6	.374	3.3
2010	145	613	539	81	146	36	5	8	51	69	90	11	1	.271	.355	.401	.756	109.8	106.0	.343	1.5
2011	150	647	582	79	152	29	7	16	73	51	92	19	6	.261	.326	.418	.743	110.8	110.1	.329	1.4
2012	64	224	207	25	46	6	2	4	19	17	27	4	0	.222	.281	.329	.610	70.4	70.1	.274	-0.4

Career totals

2,490

63rd-most career G

10,917

41st-most career PA

9,736

40th-most career AB

1,668

32nd-most career R

2,769

55th-most career H

522

50th-most career 2B

109

130th-most career 3B

235

293rd-most career HR

RBI

1,139

200th-most career RBI

1,003

123rd-most career BB

1,257

194th-most career SO

408

68th-most career SB

.2844

OBP

.3519

SLG

.4328

OPS

.7847

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
2004-07-09	TEX @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	4	11
2001-07-07	ATH @ AZ Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	2	11
2000-09-11	KC @ SEA Gameday	5	2	5	2	1	2	10
2000-05-06	CWS @ KC Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	4	10
2000-07-18	CHC @ KC Gameday	6	1	5	4	0	2	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

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.