Paul DeJong
St. Louis Cardinals 2017–2022; San Francisco Giants 2023; St. Louis Cardinals 2023; Toronto Blue Jays 2023; Chicago White Sox 2024; Kansas City Royals 2024; Washington Nationals 2025
Percentile snapshot
2019 season — qualified batters
of 135 qualified 2019 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 108 | 443 | 417 | 55 | 119 | 26 | 1 | 25 | 65 | 21 | 124 | 1 | 0 | .285 | .325 | .532 | .857 | 122.8 | 122.8 | .362 | 3.2 |
| 2018 | 115 | 489 | 436 | 68 | 105 | 25 | 1 | 19 | 68 | 36 | 123 | 1 | 1 | .241 | .313 | .433 | .746 | 102.4 | 103.0 | .326 | 2.4 |
| 2019 | 159 | 664 | 583 | 97 | 136 | 31 | 1 | 30 | 78 | 62 | 149 | 9 | 5 | .233 | .318 | .444 | .762 | 98.5 | 98.0 | .325 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 45 | 174 | 152 | 17 | 38 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 25 | 17 | 50 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .322 | .349 | .671 | 86.6 | 85.4 | .299 | 0.6 |
| 2021 | 113 | 402 | 356 | 44 | 70 | 10 | 1 | 19 | 45 | 35 | 103 | 4 | 1 | .197 | .284 | .390 | .674 | 84.2 | 83.6 | .297 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 77 | 237 | 210 | 19 | 33 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 25 | 21 | 79 | 3 | 2 | .157 | .245 | .286 | .530 | 52.0 | 51.6 | .242 | -0.2 |
| 2023 | 112 | 400 | 372 | 41 | 77 | 13 | 0 | 14 | 38 | 21 | 121 | 4 | 4 | .207 | .258 | .355 | .612 | 63.8 | 66.5 | .268 | 0.2 |
| 2024 | 139 | 482 | 445 | 54 | 101 | 17 | 0 | 24 | 56 | 23 | 156 | 2 | 2 | .227 | .276 | .427 | .703 | 95.6 | 97.6 | .303 | 1.9 |
| 2025 | 57 | 208 | 193 | 18 | 44 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 23 | 11 | 70 | 4 | 0 | .228 | .269 | .373 | .642 | 72.5 | 75.8 | .280 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-24 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 14 |
| 2017-07-08 | NYM @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 2021-04-19 | STL @ WSH Gameday | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 2018-04-01 | STL @ NYM Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 2021-04-03 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.