Doc Johnston

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornSeptember 9, 1887 · Cleveland, TN, USA

MLB debutOctober 3, 1909

Final gameSeptember 30, 1922

Seasons11 (1909–1922)

Cincinnati Reds 1909; Cleveland Naps 1912–1914; Pittsburgh Pirates 1915–1916; Cleveland Indians 1918–1921; Philadelphia Athletics 1922

Percentile snapshot

1920 season — qualified batters

147

73.9

593

64.1

535

68.3

59.9

156

65.5

64.1

69.7

41.5

RBI

76.8

40.1

52.8

.292

52.1

OBP

.333

37.3

SLG

.385

51.4

OPS

.718

44.4

wRC+

86.8

25.4

OPS+

89.0

27.5

wOBA

.336

37.3

sWAR

-0.2

6.3

of 143 qualified 1920 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

86.9

18.8

OPS+

88.6

20.9

sWAR

-2.0

1.6

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
1909	3	11	10	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.6	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1912	43	182	164	22	46	7	4	1	11	11	12	8	6	.280	.326	.390	.716	99.1	102.7	.342	0.2
1913	133	583	530	74	135	19	12	2	39	35	65	19	0	.255	.309	.347	.657	86.3	89.5	.319	-0.2
1914	103	384	340	43	83	15	1	0	23	28	46	14	9	.244	.311	.294	.605	76.9	78.2	.303	-0.6
1915	147	628	543	71	144	19	12	5	64	38	40	26	17	.265	.328	.372	.700	113.6	113.8	.335	1.6
1916	114	449	404	33	86	10	10	0	39	20	42	17	0	.213	.262	.287	.549	62.0	66.7	.264	-1.6
1918	74	315	273	30	62	12	2	0	25	26	19	12	0	.227	.301	.286	.587	69.1	71.3	.297	-0.8
1919	102	381	331	42	101	17	3	1	33	25	18	21	0	.305	.359	.384	.743	105.3	104.8	.355	0.6
1920	147	593	535	68	156	24	10	2	71	28	32	13	7	.292	.333	.385	.718	86.8	89.0	.336	-0.2
1921	118	444	384	53	114	20	7	2	46	29	15	2	9	.297	.353	.401	.754	90.6	91.2	.351	0.0
1922	71	300	260	41	65	11	7	1	29	24	15	7	6	.250	.316	.358	.673	70.0	72.0	.316	-0.7

Career totals

1,055

4,270

3,774

478

992

154

419th-most career 3B

RBI

381

264

307

139

.2629

OBP

.3191

SLG

.3508

OPS

.6699

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
1920-09-09	NYY @ CLE Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	0	3	0	8
1922-05-09	CLE @ ATH Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	0	2	1	8
1921-07-30	CLE @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	7	0	8
1920-06-30	CLE @ BAL Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	1	2	0	7
1920-07-19	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	0	4	1	1	0	1	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1909-04-14	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-15	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-16	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-17	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-18	STL @ CIN 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.