MLB / Players

Lamar Johnson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 215 lb

BornSeptember 2, 1950 · Bessemer, AL, USA

MLB debutMay 18, 1974

Final gameOctober 2, 1982

Seasons9 (1974–1982)

Chicago White Sox 1974–1981; Texas Rangers 1982

Percentile snapshot

1980 season — qualified batters

147

596

541

49.2

3.2

150

45.2

28.2

RBI

70.2

39.5

10.5

67.7

.277

42.7

OBP

.331

32.3

SLG

.409

45.2

OPS

.740

37.1

wRC+

101.5

33.1

OPS+

102.6

34.7

wOBA

.333

31.5

sWAR

0.7

12.1

of 125 qualified 1980 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.4

80.3

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
1974	10	30	29	1	10	0	0	0	2	0	3	0	0	.345	.333	.345	.678	89.4	93.9	.311	0.0
1975	8	31	30	2	6	3	0	1	1	1	5	0	0	.200	.226	.400	.626	66.2	72.8	.281	-0.1
1976	82	248	222	29	71	11	1	4	33	19	37	2	1	.320	.372	.432	.805	137.3	134.9	.374	1.2
1977	118	401	374	52	113	12	5	18	65	24	53	1	1	.302	.342	.505	.847	126.5	127.6	.370	1.5
1978	148	551	498	52	136	23	2	8	72	43	46	6	5	.273	.329	.376	.705	97.6	97.6	.324	0.4
1979	133	526	479	60	148	29	1	12	74	41	56	8	2	.309	.363	.449	.812	120.1	118.2	.365	1.9
1980	147	596	541	51	150	26	3	13	81	47	53	2	3	.277	.331	.409	.740	101.5	102.6	.333	0.7
1981	41	142	134	10	37	7	0	1	15	5	14	0	2	.276	.298	.351	.649	84.1	89.0	.295	-0.1
1982	105	358	324	37	84	11	0	7	38	31	40	3	5	.259	.326	.358	.684	95.3	92.4	.315	0.0

Career totals

792

2,883

2,631

294

755

122

RBI

381

211

307

.2870

OBP

.3382

SLG

.4154

OPS

.7536

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
1977-06-19	ATH @ CWS Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	2	2	0	10
1976-07-18	MIL @ CWS Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
1977-07-22	CWS @ TOR Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	5	0	8
1977-05-28	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	1	4	1	8
1977-09-21	ATH @ CWS Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	1	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.