MLB / Players

Johnny Grubb

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 175 lb

BornAugust 4, 1948 · Richmond, VA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1972

Final gameSeptember 28, 1987

Seasons16 (1972–1987)

San Diego Padres 1972–1976; Cleveland Indians 1977–1978; Texas Rangers 1978–1982; Detroit Tigers 1983–1987

Percentile snapshot

1975 season — qualified batters

144

40.2

625

63.8

553

62.2

55.1

149

59.1

90.6

RBI

6.3

59.1

57.5

18.1

26.8

.269

42.5

OBP

.342

45.7

SLG

.363

30.7

OPS

.706

34.6

wRC+

103.0

39.4

OPS+

100.6

38.6

wOBA

.335

41.7

sWAR

2.6

of 128 qualified 1975 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

122.6

82.8

OPS+

119.8

79.2

sWAR

24.5

95.2

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
1972	7	22	21	4	7	1	1	0	1	1	3	0	1	.333	.364	.476	.840	148.3	143.8	.385	0.2
1973	113	432	389	52	121	22	3	8	37	37	50	9	3	.311	.373	.445	.818	136.3	132.4	.377	3.6
1974	140	503	444	53	127	20	4	8	42	46	47	4	0	.286	.355	.403	.758	117.9	115.1	.357	2.9
1975	144	625	553	72	149	36	2	4	38	59	59	2	7	.269	.342	.363	.706	103.0	100.6	.335	2.6
1976	109	461	384	54	109	22	1	5	27	65	53	1	2	.284	.391	.385	.777	132.0	128.6	.367	2.7
1977	34	113	93	8	28	3	3	2	14	19	18	0	3	.301	.425	.462	.887	150.4	146.0	.401	0.9
1978	134	493	411	62	113	19	6	15	67	70	65	6	2	.275	.381	.460	.841	140.7	137.5	.384	3.4
1979	102	328	289	42	79	14	0	10	37	34	44	2	4	.273	.350	.426	.775	110.7	110.2	.349	1.2
1980	110	323	274	40	76	12	1	9	32	42	35	2	3	.277	.374	.427	.801	123.4	122.1	.363	1.5
1981	67	226	199	26	46	9	1	3	26	23	25	0	3	.231	.316	.332	.647	95.2	91.1	.309	0.4
1982	103	358	308	35	86	13	3	3	26	39	37	0	3	.279	.368	.370	.738	112.8	108.6	.341	1.2
1983	57	165	134	20	34	5	2	4	22	28	17	0	0	.254	.388	.410	.798	131.0	124.3	.369	0.8
1984	86	216	176	25	47	5	0	8	17	36	36	1	0	.267	.395	.432	.827	134.1	131.7	.373	1.0
1985	78	184	155	19	38	7	1	5	25	24	25	0	1	.245	.342	.400	.742	107.8	105.0	.336	0.3
1986	81	243	210	32	70	13	1	13	51	28	28	0	1	.333	.412	.590	1.002	172.6	171.4	.436	2.3
1987	59	131	114	9	23	6	0	2	13	15	16	0	0	.202	.290	.307	.597	65.7	62.5	.275	-0.4

Career totals

1,424

4,823

4,154

553

1,153

207

RBI

475

566

558

.2776

OBP

.3663

353rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4129

OPS

.7792

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	TB
1982-08-08	TEX @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	1	2	11
1976-08-02	SD @ ATL Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	4	9
1975-05-19	STL @ SD Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	1	8
1977-05-01	CLE @ MIL Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	1	8
1986-07-22	MIN @ DET Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	3	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.

Honors

1× 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.