Ellis Johnson
Chicago White Sox 1912; Chicago White Sox 1915; Philadelphia Athletics 1917
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | 15.0 | -25.1 | .194 | 0.0 |
| 1915 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
| 1917 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .667 | .000 | .667 | 231.2 | 102.3 | .518 | -0.6 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 11.7 | 3.86 | 1.543 | 5.40 | 4.06 | 127.1 | 82.9 | 0.0 |
| 1915 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2.0 | 9.00 | 1.500 | 13.50 | -0.62 | -21.2 | 32.7 | -0.1 |
| 1917 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 13.7 | 7.24 | 1.463 | 5.27 | 2.07 | 76.0 | 37.6 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912-04-11 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912-04-12 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912-04-13 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912-04-14 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912-04-15 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917-04-24 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 6.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1912-09-22 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1915-04-18 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 2.0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1917-04-16 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 5.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1912-09-25 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 2.2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 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.