Johnny Oates
Baltimore Orioles 1970; Baltimore Orioles 1972; Atlanta Braves 1973–1975; Philadelphia Phillies 1975–1976; Los Angeles Dodgers 1977–1979; New York Yankees 1980–1981
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 5 | 21 | 18 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .278 | .333 | .389 | .722 | 98.5 | 100.2 | .328 | 0.1 |
| 1972 | 85 | 288 | 253 | 20 | 66 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 28 | 31 | 5 | 7 | .261 | .332 | .364 | .696 | 102.7 | 106.9 | .320 | 1.9 |
| 1973 | 93 | 351 | 322 | 27 | 80 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 27 | 22 | 31 | 1 | 4 | .248 | .299 | .304 | .603 | 58.8 | 62.6 | .281 | 0.2 |
| 1974 | 100 | 327 | 291 | 22 | 65 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 23 | 24 | 2 | 3 | .223 | .278 | .268 | .547 | 39.0 | 51.1 | .250 | -0.4 |
| 1975 | 98 | 329 | 287 | 28 | 81 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 34 | 33 | 1 | 0 | .282 | .354 | .345 | .699 | 88.4 | 92.6 | .323 | 1.4 |
| 1976 | 37 | 107 | 99 | 10 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 1 | .253 | .308 | .273 | .581 | 67.4 | 65.4 | .284 | 0.2 |
| 1977 | 60 | 171 | 156 | 18 | 42 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .269 | .314 | .353 | .666 | 74.4 | 80.9 | .296 | 0.5 |
| 1978 | 40 | 80 | 75 | 5 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | .307 | .350 | .320 | .670 | 91.2 | 90.4 | .315 | 0.4 |
| 1979 | 26 | 51 | 46 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .130 | .200 | .174 | .374 | -6.3 | 4.4 | .175 | -0.3 |
| 1980 | 39 | 67 | 64 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | .188 | .224 | .281 | .505 | 35.9 | 39.8 | .233 | 0.0 |
| 1981 | 10 | 28 | 26 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .192 | .250 | .231 | .481 | 40.2 | 41.4 | .234 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975-09-06 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1972-07-03 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1972-08-02 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1977-07-04 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1972-06-11 | BAL @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.