Johnny Ray
Pittsburgh Pirates 1981–1986; California Angels 1987; Pittsburgh Pirates 1987; California Angels 1988–1990
Percentile snapshot
1989 season — qualified batters
of 126 qualified 1989 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 31 | 109 | 102 | 10 | 25 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .245 | .284 | .353 | .637 | 69.3 | 77.6 | .289 | 0.0 |
| 1982 | 162 | 702 | 647 | 79 | 182 | 30 | 7 | 7 | 63 | 36 | 34 | 16 | 7 | .281 | .318 | .382 | .700 | 93.3 | 92.6 | .324 | 2.1 |
| 1983 | 151 | 623 | 576 | 68 | 163 | 38 | 7 | 5 | 53 | 35 | 26 | 18 | 9 | .283 | .323 | .399 | .722 | 98.3 | 98.1 | .332 | 2.2 |
| 1984 | 155 | 603 | 555 | 75 | 173 | 38 | 6 | 6 | 67 | 37 | 31 | 11 | 6 | .312 | .354 | .434 | .789 | 123.7 | 121.6 | .362 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 154 | 652 | 594 | 67 | 163 | 33 | 3 | 7 | 70 | 46 | 24 | 13 | 9 | .274 | .325 | .375 | .700 | 93.8 | 96.5 | .318 | 1.9 |
| 1986 | 155 | 648 | 579 | 67 | 174 | 33 | 0 | 7 | 78 | 58 | 47 | 6 | 9 | .301 | .363 | .394 | .757 | 107.7 | 107.0 | .346 | 3.0 |
| 1987 | 153 | 650 | 599 | 64 | 173 | 30 | 3 | 5 | 69 | 44 | 46 | 4 | 2 | .289 | .334 | .374 | .708 | 88.1 | 87.9 | .319 | 1.4 |
| 1988 | 153 | 659 | 602 | 75 | 184 | 42 | 7 | 6 | 83 | 36 | 38 | 4 | 1 | .306 | .345 | .429 | .773 | 118.5 | 118.5 | .348 | 3.6 |
| 1989 | 134 | 582 | 530 | 52 | 153 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 62 | 36 | 30 | 6 | 3 | .289 | .327 | .358 | .685 | 93.8 | 95.5 | .314 | 1.8 |
| 1990 | 105 | 429 | 404 | 47 | 112 | 23 | 0 | 5 | 43 | 19 | 44 | 2 | 3 | .277 | .308 | .371 | .679 | 89.3 | 92.0 | .309 | 1.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-05-30 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1983-07-27 | SD @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1988-08-06 | CWS @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1988-09-27 | LAA @ MIL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1983-09-22 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.