Johnny Damon

1995–2012 · 18 seasons · Bats left, throws left · Born 1973

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1995	Kansas City Royals	AL	47	206	188	32	53	11	5	3	23	12	22	7	.282	.324	.441	.765	0.8
1996	Kansas City Royals	AL	145	566	517	61	140	22	5	6	50	31	64	25	.271	.313	.368	.680	0.9
1997	Kansas City Royals	AL	146	524	472	70	130	12	8	8	48	42	70	16	.275	.338	.386	.723	1.6
1998	Kansas City Royals	AL	161	710	642	104	178	30	10	18	66	58	84	26	.277	.339	.439	.779	3.0
1999	Kansas City Royals	AL	145	660	583	101	179	39	9	14	77	67	50	36	.307	.379	.477	.856	3.4
2000	Kansas City Royals	AL	159	741	655	136	214	42	10	16	88	65	60	46	.327	.382	.495	.877	5.1
2001	Oakland Athletics	AL	155	719	644	108	165	34	4	9	49	61	70	27	.256	.324	.363	.687	0.4
2002	Boston Red Sox	AL	154	702	623	118	178	34	11	14	63	65	70	31	.286	.356	.443	.799	3.7
2003	Boston Red Sox	AL	145	690	608	103	166	32	6	12	67	68	74	30	.273	.345	.405	.750	2.7
2004	Boston Red Sox	AL	150	702	621	123	189	35	6	20	94	76	71	19	.304	.380	.477	.857	4.7
2005	Boston Red Sox	AL	148	688	624	117	197	35	6	10	75	53	69	18	.316	.366	.439	.805	5.0
2006	New York Yankees	AL	149	671	593	115	169	35	5	24	80	67	85	25	.285	.359	.482	.841	4.0
2007	New York Yankees	AL	141	605	533	93	144	27	2	12	63	66	79	27	.270	.351	.396	.747	2.4
2008	New York Yankees	AL	143	623	555	95	168	27	5	17	71	64	82	29	.303	.375	.461	.836	3.7
2009	New York Yankees	AL	143	626	550	107	155	36	3	24	82	71	98	12	.282	.365	.489	.854	2.8
2010	Detroit Tigers	AL	145	613	539	81	146	36	5	8	51	69	90	11	.271	.355	.401	.756	2.7
2011	Tampa Bay Rays	AL	150	647	582	79	152	29	7	16	73	51	92	19	.261	.326	.418	.743	3.0
2012	Cleveland Indians	AL	64	224	207	25	46	6	2	4	19	17	27	4	.222	.281	.329	.610	-0.1
Career	18 seasons		2490	10917	9736	1668	2769	522	109	235	1139	1003	1257	408	.284	.354	.433	.787	49.8

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).

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