MLB / Players

Johnny Lewis

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 189 lb

BornAugust 10, 1939 · Greenville, AL, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1964

Final gameJune 11, 1967

Seasons4 (1964–1967)

St. Louis Cardinals 1964; New York Mets 1965–1967

Percentile snapshot

1965 season — qualified batters

148

36.8

544

12.6

477

9.5

33.7

117

7.4

3.2

28.4

49.5

RBI

16.8

62.1

117

11.6

35.8

14.7

.245

16.8

OBP

.331

46.3

SLG

.384

37.9

OPS

.715

38.9

wRC+

105.9

41.1

OPS+

102.6

38.9

wOBA

.328

44.2

sWAR

1.7

30.5

of 96 qualified 1965 batters (min 508 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

1.1

64.8

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	40	108	94	10	22	2	2	2	7	13	23	2	2	.234	.324	.362	.686	88.4	86.8	.315	0.0
1965	148	544	477	64	117	15	3	15	45	59	117	4	7	.245	.331	.384	.715	105.9	102.6	.328	1.7
1966	65	188	166	21	32	6	1	5	20	21	43	2	0	.193	.282	.331	.613	73.6	70.8	.285	-0.2
1967	13	36	34	2	4	1	0	0	2	2	11	0	0	.118	.167	.147	.314	-15.9	-8.7	.156	-0.5

Career totals

266

876

771

175

RBI

194

.2270

OBP

.3131

SLG

.3593

OPS

.6724

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
1965-07-29	NYM @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	4	11
1966-06-11	CIN @ NYM Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	6
1965-05-14	CIN @ NYM Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2	5
1965-07-10	HOU @ NYM Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	1	5
1965-07-24	PHI @ NYM Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	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.