Julian Javier
St. Louis Cardinals 1960–1971; Cincinnati Reds 1972
Percentile snapshot
1970 season — qualified batters
of 114 qualified 1970 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 119 | 488 | 451 | 55 | 107 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 21 | 21 | 72 | 19 | 4 | .237 | .273 | .341 | .614 | 58.3 | 62.1 | .278 | -0.6 |
| 1961 | 113 | 484 | 445 | 58 | 124 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 41 | 30 | 51 | 11 | 4 | .279 | .326 | .337 | .663 | 71.3 | 70.8 | .304 | 0.0 |
| 1962 | 155 | 662 | 598 | 97 | 157 | 25 | 5 | 7 | 39 | 47 | 73 | 26 | 9 | .263 | .316 | .356 | .672 | 74.4 | 74.3 | .310 | 0.4 |
| 1963 | 161 | 654 | 609 | 82 | 160 | 27 | 9 | 9 | 46 | 24 | 86 | 18 | 10 | .263 | .296 | .381 | .677 | 86.5 | 87.5 | .307 | 1.5 |
| 1964 | 155 | 574 | 535 | 66 | 129 | 19 | 5 | 12 | 65 | 30 | 82 | 9 | 7 | .241 | .282 | .363 | .644 | 69.1 | 74.3 | .287 | 0.0 |
| 1965 | 77 | 246 | 229 | 34 | 52 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 23 | 8 | 44 | 5 | 5 | .227 | .260 | .314 | .575 | 51.2 | 57.8 | .259 | -0.5 |
| 1966 | 147 | 496 | 460 | 52 | 105 | 13 | 5 | 7 | 31 | 26 | 63 | 11 | 5 | .228 | .269 | .324 | .593 | 60.1 | 63.3 | .268 | -0.5 |
| 1967 | 140 | 555 | 520 | 68 | 146 | 16 | 3 | 14 | 64 | 25 | 92 | 6 | 7 | .281 | .314 | .404 | .718 | 107.9 | 107.1 | .328 | 2.7 |
| 1968 | 139 | 553 | 519 | 54 | 135 | 25 | 4 | 4 | 52 | 24 | 61 | 10 | 3 | .260 | .291 | .347 | .638 | 92.9 | 94.0 | .298 | 1.7 |
| 1969 | 143 | 540 | 493 | 59 | 139 | 28 | 2 | 10 | 42 | 40 | 74 | 8 | 4 | .282 | .336 | .408 | .744 | 105.3 | 108.3 | .337 | 2.4 |
| 1970 | 139 | 551 | 513 | 62 | 129 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 42 | 24 | 70 | 6 | 4 | .251 | .284 | .306 | .590 | 52.2 | 57.4 | .269 | -1.2 |
| 1971 | 90 | 276 | 259 | 32 | 67 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 28 | 9 | 33 | 5 | 1 | .259 | .286 | .347 | .633 | 69.3 | 76.2 | .288 | 0.1 |
| 1972 | 44 | 100 | 91 | 3 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .209 | .255 | .297 | .552 | 58.6 | 61.5 | .259 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966-06-08 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1967-07-08 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1964-09-13 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1964-06-07 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1966-08-20 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.