Alex Johnson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 205 lb

BornDecember 7, 1942 · Helena, AR, USA

MLB debutJuly 25, 1964

Final gameOctober 1, 1976

Seasons13 (1964–1976)

Philadelphia Phillies 1964–1965; St. Louis Cardinals 1966–1967; Cincinnati Reds 1968–1969; California Angels 1970–1971; Cleveland Indians 1972; Texas Rangers 1973; New York Yankees 1974; Texas Rangers 1974; New York Yankees 1975; Detroit Tigers 1976

Percentile snapshot

1974 season — qualified batters

124

2.3

514

8.4

481

21.4

22.9

138

37.4

6.9

39.7

19.8

RBI

17.6

6.9

59.5

78.6

21.4

.287

68.7

OBP

.331

32.8

SLG

.362

23.7

OPS

.693

24.4

wRC+

101.1

28.2

OPS+

101.2

26.7

wOBA

.323

24.4

sWAR

1.0

14.5

of 132 qualified 1974 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

103.8

49.4

OPS+

104.8

51.8

sWAR

11.2

88.1

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
1964	43	116	109	18	33	7	1	4	18	6	26	1	2	.303	.345	.495	.840	137.6	136.0	.372	0.7
1965	97	280	262	27	77	9	3	8	28	15	60	4	4	.294	.337	.443	.780	120.6	120.2	.349	1.2
1966	25	91	86	7	16	0	1	2	6	5	18	1	1	.186	.231	.279	.510	32.8	40.4	.229	-0.6
1967	81	189	175	20	39	9	2	1	12	9	26	6	3	.223	.271	.314	.586	70.2	69.7	.275	-0.3
1968	149	634	603	79	188	32	6	2	58	26	71	16	6	.312	.342	.395	.737	119.8	115.6	.343	2.8
1969	139	572	523	86	165	18	4	17	88	25	69	11	8	.315	.350	.463	.813	123.2	122.2	.369	2.9
1970	156	659	614	85	202	26	6	14	86	35	68	17	2	.329	.370	.459	.830	132.0	132.4	.373	4.0
1971	65	261	242	19	63	8	0	2	21	15	34	5	2	.260	.308	.318	.626	81.5	84.9	.291	0.0
1972	108	384	356	31	85	10	1	8	37	22	40	6	8	.239	.283	.340	.623	70.6	82.2	.281	-0.6
1973	158	663	624	62	179	26	3	8	68	32	82	10	5	.287	.322	.377	.698	96.2	98.8	.320	0.4
1974	124	514	481	60	138	15	3	5	43	28	62	20	9	.287	.331	.362	.693	101.1	101.2	.323	1.0
1975	52	128	119	15	31	5	1	1	15	7	21	2	3	.261	.297	.345	.641	79.0	83.4	.294	-0.3
1976	125	457	429	41	115	15	2	6	45	19	49	14	10	.268	.298	.354	.653	84.2	87.5	.304	0.0

Career totals

1,322

4,948

4,623

550

1,331

180

RBI

525

244

626

113

.2879

461st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3264

SLG

.3917

OPS

.7181

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
1969-04-15	SF @ CIN Gameday	7	3	4	0	1	2	5	12
1965-08-29	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	5	8
1970-04-11	LAA @ KC Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	6	8
1969-08-03	CIN @ PHI Gameday	6	3	4	0	0	1	4	7
1970-05-09	NYY @ LAA Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	0	1	7

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.