Lance Johnson

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornJuly 6, 1963 · Cincinnati, OH, USA

MLB debutJuly 10, 1987

Final gameMay 27, 2000

Seasons14 (1987–2000)

St. Louis Cardinals 1987; Chicago White Sox 1988–1995; New York Mets 1996; Chicago Cubs 1997; New York Mets 1997; Chicago Cubs 1998–1999; New York Yankees 2000

Percentile snapshot

1996 season — qualified batters

160

92.5

724

97.3

682

100

117

88.4

227

100

56.5

100

18.4

RBI

28.6

10.2

95.2

97.3

4.8

.333

95.9

OBP

.362

54.4

SLG

.479

56.5

OPS

.841

59.2

wRC+

123.3

69.4

OPS+

124.9

73.5

wOBA

.369

59.9

sWAR

4.7

of 148 qualified 1996 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

94.7

31.2

OPS+

94.8

31.2

sWAR

17.5

92.4

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
1987	33	63	59	4	13	2	1	0	7	4	6	6	1	.220	.270	.288	.558	41.8	47.9	.252	-0.3
1988	33	132	124	11	23	4	1	0	6	6	11	6	2	.185	.223	.234	.457	24.6	28.8	.214	-0.7
1989	50	199	180	28	54	8	2	0	16	17	24	16	3	.300	.360	.367	.727	113.1	108.3	.342	0.8
1990	151	587	541	76	154	18	9	1	51	33	45	36	22	.285	.325	.357	.681	92.3	92.7	.314	1.7
1991	159	624	588	72	161	14	13	0	49	26	58	26	11	.274	.304	.342	.646	78.4	80.2	.295	0.8
1992	157	611	567	67	158	15	12	3	47	34	33	41	14	.279	.318	.363	.681	90.9	92.9	.313	1.7
1993	147	579	540	75	168	18	14	0	47	36	33	35	7	.311	.354	.396	.750	107.5	105.1	.344	2.8
1994	106	443	412	56	114	11	14	3	54	26	23	26	6	.277	.321	.393	.714	83.3	85.6	.315	0.7
1995	142	645	607	98	186	18	12	10	57	32	31	40	6	.306	.341	.425	.766	102.2	102.8	.341	2.6
1996	160	724	682	117	227	31	21	9	69	33	40	50	12	.333	.362	.479	.841	123.3	124.9	.369	4.7
1997	111	454	410	60	126	16	8	5	39	42	31	20	12	.307	.370	.422	.792	111.2	108.9	.357	2.3
1998	85	332	304	51	85	8	4	2	21	26	22	10	6	.280	.335	.352	.687	79.5	78.7	.314	0.4
1999	95	377	335	46	87	11	6	1	21	37	20	13	3	.260	.332	.337	.670	74.6	71.6	.310	0.2
2000	18	30	30	6	9	1	0	0	2	0	7	2	0	.300	.300	.333	.633	60.6	63.2	.282	-0.1

Career totals

1,447

5,800

5,379

767

1,565

175

117

106th-most career 3B

RBI

486

352

384

327

137th-most career SB

.2909

386th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3337

SLG

.3859

OPS

.7196

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	TB
1995-09-23	CWS @ MIN Gameday	6	4	6	0	3	0	4	12
1996-08-07	NYM @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	2	2	11
1995-08-08	CWS @ SEA Gameday	6	3	4	2	0	1	2	9
1995-07-28	CWS @ BAL Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	2	8
1997-06-22	PIT @ NYM Gameday	6	3	4	1	0	1	2	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

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.