MLB / Players

Don Johnson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornDecember 7, 1911 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 26, 1943

Final gameMay 16, 1948

Seasons6 (1943–1948)

Chicago Cubs 1943–1948

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified batters

138

59.5

614

79.3

557

80.2

90.1

168

89.2

58.6

35.1

RBI

64.9

34.2

38.7

75.7

35.1

.302

79.3

OBP

.343

46.8

SLG

.361

36.9

OPS

.704

35.1

wRC+

97.4

34.2

OPS+

98.7

35.1

wOBA

.335

32.4

sWAR

2.0

57.7

of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.7

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1943	10	45	42	5	8	2	0	0	1	2	4	0	.190	.227	.238	.465	23.7	34.8	.225	-0.2
1944	154	644	608	50	169	37	1	2	71	28	48	8	.278	.311	.352	.663	84.1	87.6	.310	1.1
1945	138	614	557	94	168	23	2	2	58	32	34	9	.302	.343	.361	.704	97.4	98.7	.335	2.0
1946	83	353	314	37	76	10	1	1	19	26	39	6	.242	.306	.290	.596	69.5	72.1	.291	0.0
1947	120	434	402	33	104	17	2	3	26	24	45	2	.259	.302	.333	.635	68.1	71.6	.295	-0.1
1948	6	12	12	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	27.7	37.6	.231	-0.1

Career totals

511

2,102

1,935

219

528

RBI

175

112

171

.2729

OBP

.3153

SLG

.3375

OPS

.6528

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
1947-07-03	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	1	0	8
1945-07-03	CHC @ ATL Gameday	7	5	5	2	0	0	4	0	7
1945-07-22	PHI @ CHC Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	1	2	1	7
1943-09-27	SF @ CHC Gameday	7	3	4	2	0	0	0	0	6
1947-06-12	CHC @ PIT Gameday	4	0	3	0	1	0	3	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-04-21	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-22	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-24	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-25	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-27	CHC @ STL 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

2× 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.