Don Johnson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 200 lb

BornNovember 12, 1926 · Portland, OR, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1947

Final gameSeptember 24, 1958

Seasons7 (1947–1958)

New York Yankees 1947; New York Yankees 1950; St. Louis Browns 1950–1951; Washington Senators 1951–1952; Chicago White Sox 1954; Baltimore Orioles 1955; San Francisco Giants 1958

Percentile snapshot

1951 season — qualified pitchers

3.8

17.3

3.8

38.5

15.4

SHO

11.5

165

86.5

69.2

7.7

158.7

1.9

ERA

4.76

3.8

WHIP

1.519

1.9

K/9

3.40

32.7

FIP

4.38

7.7

FIP-

106.6

7.7

ERA+

85.8

sWAR

-0.1

of 53 qualified 1951 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-0.9

7.2

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1947	15	18	13	0	0	0	0	1	8	.000	.071	.000	.071	-96.3	-78.9	.054	0.3
1950	33	36	32	0	2	0	1	1	7	.063	.091	.063	.153	-82.8	-61.3	.080	-1.5
1951	27	58	50	1	5	1	5	1	12	.100	.118	.120	.238	-52.2	-35.6	.114	-0.1
1952	29	15	13	0	1	0	0	0	3	.077	.077	.077	.154	-82.9	-56.3	.072	-0.2
1954	46	45	35	0	1	0	1	2	12	.029	.079	.029	.108	-94.0	-69.5	.064	2.1
1955	31	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.8	-100.0	.000	-1.1
1958	17	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.6	-100.0	.000	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1947	15	8	4	3	0	2	0	57	22	23	16	2	54.3	3.64	1.472	2.65	3.64	100.7	99.1	0.3
1950	33	12	6	6	1	4	1	161	85	67	40	16	114.0	6.71	2.000	3.16	5.62	117.5	71.3	-1.5
1951	27	23	7	12	0	8	1	165	84	76	60	13	158.7	4.76	1.519	3.40	4.38	106.6	85.8	-0.1
1952	29	6	0	5	2	0	0	80	34	33	37	4	69.0	4.43	1.638	4.83	3.65	103.0	80.0	-0.2
1954	46	16	8	7	7	3	3	129	50	43	68	14	144.0	3.13	1.194	4.25	3.59	96.5	119.2	2.1
1955	31	5	2	4	1	0	0	89	44	35	27	4	68.0	5.82	1.824	3.57	3.94	105.3	64.3	-1.1
1958	17	0	0	1	1	0	0	31	16	8	14	2	23.0	6.26	1.696	5.48	3.72	95.3	62.4	-0.4

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

198

185

155

RBI

.0581

OBP

.0870

SLG

.0645

OPS

.1515

Pitching

G (P)

198

SHO

631

SO (P)

262

BB allowed

285

ERA

4.778

WHIP

1.5800

K/9

3.74

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	RBI	TB
1951-07-14	MIN @ DET Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2
1951-08-26	MIN @ BAL Gameday	4	0	1	1	2	2
1950-08-16	BAL @ CLE Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	1
1951-04-23	BAL @ DET Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	1
1950-07-04	BAL @ CLE Gameday	3	0	1	0	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1951-06-15	CLE @ MIN Gameday	9.0	3	2	2	4	7	1
1950-08-16	BAL @ CLE Gameday	8.2	9	2	2	5	7	1
1951-06-10	MIN @ BAL Gameday	11.0	8	2	2	3	6	1
1950-09-08	BAL @ CLE Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	2	5	0
1951-07-25	DET @ MIN Gameday	9.0	8	4	4	3	5	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.