MLB / Players

Bob Johnson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornNovember 26, 1905 · Pryor, OK, USA

MLB debutApril 12, 1933

Final gameSeptember 23, 1945

Seasons13 (1933–1945)

Philadelphia Athletics 1933–1942; Washington Senators 1943; Boston Red Sox 1944–1945

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified batters

143

68.5

593

64.9

529

66.7

65.8

148

68.5

75.7

84.7

RBI

77.5

73.9

15.3

48.6

21.6

.280

54.1

OBP

.358

61.3

SLG

.425

OPS

.783

71.2

wRC+

125.9

76.6

OPS+

124.6

72.1

wOBA

.373

70.3

sWAR

3.0

of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

135.6

OPS+

136.3

sWAR

54.4

99.1

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
1933	142	625	535	103	155	44	4	21	93	85	74	8	3	.290	.387	.505	.892	132.1	133.6	.406	3.9
1934	141	609	547	111	168	26	6	34	92	58	60	12	8	.307	.375	.563	.938	136.1	141.5	.419	4.1
1935	147	664	582	103	174	29	5	28	109	78	76	2	4	.299	.384	.510	.894	126.9	128.2	.405	3.7
1936	153	657	566	91	165	29	14	25	121	88	71	6	6	.292	.389	.525	.913	120.6	123.3	.411	3.3
1937	138	576	477	91	146	32	6	25	108	98	65	9	7	.306	.425	.556	.981	144.4	144.6	.439	4.5
1938	152	652	563	114	176	27	9	30	113	87	73	9	8	.313	.406	.552	.959	135.5	138.0	.429	5.1
1939	150	653	544	115	184	30	9	23	114	99	59	15	5	.338	.440	.553	.993	151.1	151.7	.448	5.8
1940	138	600	512	93	137	25	4	31	103	83	64	8	2	.268	.374	.514	.888	126.6	127.5	.395	3.4
1941	149	653	552	98	152	30	8	22	107	95	75	6	4	.275	.385	.478	.863	127.5	126.7	.396	3.6
1942	149	634	550	78	160	35	7	13	80	82	61	3	2	.291	.384	.451	.835	134.0	132.1	.393	4.0
1943	117	505	438	65	116	22	8	7	63	64	50	11	5	.265	.362	.400	.762	127.8	124.9	.367	2.8
1944	144	626	525	106	170	40	8	17	106	95	67	2	7	.324	.431	.528	.959	178.1	173.9	.447	7.2
1945	143	593	529	71	148	27	7	12	74	63	56	5	3	.280	.358	.425	.783	125.9	124.6	.373	3.0

Career totals

1,863

357th-most career G

8,047

287th-most career PA

6,920

324th-most career AB

1,239

161st-most career R

2,051

269th-most career H

396

207th-most career 2B

186th-most career 3B

288

180th-most career HR

RBI

1,283

126th-most career RBI

1,075

94th-most career BB

851

.2964

278th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3928

102nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5059

104th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8987

75th-highest career OPS

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
1934-06-16	CWS @ ATH Gameday	6	3	6	1	0	2	4	13
1937-08-29	ATH @ CWS Gameday	6	4	5	1	0	2	7	12
1938-08-03	ATH @ CWS Gameday	6	4	5	1	0	2	7	12
1935-04-28	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	2	4	12
1938-06-11	BAL @ ATH Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	2	3	11

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1933-04-12	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1933-04-13	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1933-04-14	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1933-04-15	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1933-04-16	ATH @ NYY 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

8× 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.