MLB / Players

Billy Johnson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb

BornAugust 30, 1918 · Montclair, NJ, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1943

Final gameMay 10, 1953

Seasons9 (1943–1953)

New York Yankees 1943; New York Yankees 1946–1951; St. Louis Cardinals 1951–1953

Percentile snapshot

1951 season — qualified batters

139

38.3

550

29.6

482

28.4

8.6

128

23.5

55.6

56.8

RBI

45.7

40.7

43.2

45.7

.266

27.2

OBP

.346

38.3

SLG

.411

40.7

OPS

.756

33.3

wRC+

103.7

OPS+

103.3

35.8

wOBA

.347

33.3

sWAR

2.3

48.1

of 82 qualified 1951 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

102.9

47.4

OPS+

103.4

49.3

sWAR

14.7

90.8

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
1943	155	655	592	70	166	24	6	5	94	53	30	3	5	.280	.344	.367	.710	109.3	109.2	.342	3.2
1946	85	334	296	51	77	14	5	4	35	31	42	1	0	.260	.334	.382	.716	99.5	99.9	.337	1.2
1947	132	547	494	67	141	19	8	10	95	44	43	1	2	.285	.351	.417	.768	114.8	115.8	.360	3.0
1948	127	492	446	59	131	20	6	12	64	41	30	0	0	.294	.358	.446	.805	113.4	116.2	.375	2.6
1949	113	383	329	48	82	11	3	8	56	48	44	1	0	.249	.348	.374	.722	92.7	92.8	.348	0.9
1950	108	372	327	44	85	16	2	6	40	42	30	1	0	.260	.346	.376	.722	88.9	88.9	.341	0.8
1951	139	550	482	57	128	26	1	14	68	53	49	5	4	.266	.346	.411	.756	103.7	103.3	.347	2.3
1952	94	320	282	23	71	10	2	2	34	34	21	1	0	.252	.339	.323	.661	86.9	84.6	.315	0.7
1953	11	6	5	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	.200	.333	.400	.733	92.1	89.9	.334	0.0

Career totals

964

3,659

3,253

419

882

141

RBI

487

347

290

.2711

OBP

.3465

SLG

.3910

OPS

.7375

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
1949-09-05	NYY @ ATH Gameday	6	1	5	1	0	1	3	0	9
1947-08-21	NYY @ CLE Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	1	2	0	9
1948-06-19	NYY @ BAL Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	7	0	9
1950-09-01	MIN @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
1951-09-01	PIT @ STL Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	3	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-04-22	MIN @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-24	MIN @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-25	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-27	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-28	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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.