Earl Johnson
Boston Red Sox 1940–1941; Boston Red Sox 1946–1950; Detroit Tigers 1951
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 18 | 27 | 27 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .074 | .074 | .074 | .148 | -82.0 | -62.0 | .068 | 0.7 |
| 1941 | 17 | 39 | 34 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .294 | .333 | .294 | .627 | 66.2 | 67.2 | .299 | 0.7 |
| 1946 | 29 | 27 | 22 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .346 | .318 | .664 | 86.5 | 82.1 | .326 | 1.0 |
| 1947 | 46 | 47 | 44 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .289 | .295 | .584 | 48.8 | 58.5 | .276 | 3.2 |
| 1948 | 35 | 33 | 31 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .097 | .125 | .097 | .222 | -60.6 | -41.5 | .112 | 0.5 |
| 1949 | 19 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .083 | .000 | .083 | -97.4 | -77.7 | .064 | -1.3 |
| 1950 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -135.2 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1951 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 69 | 32 | 39 | 26 | 0 | 70.3 | 4.09 | 1.536 | 3.33 | 3.93 | 87.4 | 109.9 | 0.7 |
| 1941 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 90 | 47 | 51 | 46 | 4 | 93.7 | 4.52 | 1.505 | 4.42 | 4.06 | 98.1 | 91.8 | 0.7 |
| 1946 | 29 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 78 | 33 | 39 | 40 | 5 | 80.0 | 3.71 | 1.463 | 4.50 | 3.80 | 103.5 | 98.9 | 1.0 |
| 1947 | 45 | 17 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 129 | 47 | 62 | 65 | 7 | 142.3 | 2.97 | 1.342 | 4.11 | 3.50 | 89.6 | 131.3 | 3.2 |
| 1948 | 35 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 98 | 46 | 42 | 45 | 7 | 91.3 | 4.53 | 1.533 | 4.43 | 4.14 | 93.3 | 97.8 | 0.5 |
| 1949 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 41 | 29 | 20 | 1 | 49.3 | 7.48 | 1.905 | 3.65 | 3.95 | 88.9 | 59.4 | -1.3 |
| 1950 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 13.7 | 7.24 | 1.902 | 3.95 | 3.81 | 76.9 | 68.4 | -0.2 |
| 1951 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5.7 | 6.35 | 1.941 | 3.18 | 2.93 | 70.9 | 65.1 | -0.1 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-05-21 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1947-07-12 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1947-09-01 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1940-08-07 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1941-05-30 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-09-06 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 8.2 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 2 |
| 1941-05-20 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 1941-05-30 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 |
| 1947-09-01 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 1941-05-11 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 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.