Ben Johnson
Chicago Cubs 1959–1960
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.6 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.5 |
| 1960 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 16.7 | 2.16 | 1.260 | 3.24 | 3.40 | 86.1 | 182.9 | 0.5 |
| 1960 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 29.3 | 4.91 | 1.705 | 2.76 | 4.59 | 121.8 | 76.8 | -0.1 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959-09-16 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1959-07-09 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1959-09-06 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1959-09-10 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1959-09-19 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960-05-03 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 3.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1959-09-06 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 5.2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 1959-09-10 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 4.2 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 1959-09-16 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 5.1 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1960-05-21 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 3.2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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.