Howard Johnson

1982–1995 · 14 seasons · Bats both sides, throws right · Born 1960

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17 of 26 columns. Folded away: CS, TB, HBP, wOBA, wRAA, WAR: Bat, WAR: Field, WAR: Run, WAR: Pos.

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Hitting

SeasonTeamLgGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPSWAR
1982Detroit TigersAL5417315523495041416307.316.384.426.8100.9
1983Detroit TigersAL277466111400357100.212.297.348.6460.1
1984Detroit TigersAL11640235543881411250406710.248.324.394.7180.7
1985New York MetsNL1264283893894184114634786.242.300.393.6930.0
1986New York MetsNL882532203054140103931648.245.341.445.7871.5
1987New York MetsNL1576455549314722136998311332.265.364.504.8684.1
1988New York MetsNL1485944958511421124688610423.230.343.422.7652.3
1989SSNew York MetsNL153655571104164413361017712641.287.369.559.9286.1
1990New York MetsNL1546685908914437323906910034.244.319.434.7532.8
1991SSNew York MetsNL156658564108146344381177812030.259.342.535.8775.1
1992New York MetsNL1004103504878190743557922.223.329.337.6660.5
1993New York MetsNL7228023532568272643436.238.354.379.7321.3
1994Colorado RockiesNL9326922730481021040397311.211.323.405.729-0.3
1995Chicago CubsNL8720616926334172234461.195.330.355.6850.0
Career14 seasons1531571549407601229247222287606921053231.249.343.446.78925.3

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: AL (American League), NL (National League).

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