Ernie Johnson
Boston Braves 1950; Boston Braves 1952; Milwaukee Braves 1953–1958; Baltimore Orioles 1959
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 177.2 | 171.9 | .454 | -0.5 |
| 1952 | 29 | 28 | 22 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .167 | .136 | .303 | -20.5 | -13.1 | .155 | 0.3 |
| 1953 | 36 | 15 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .071 | .071 | .071 | .143 | -77.2 | -61.3 | .064 | 1.9 |
| 1954 | 40 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .231 | .231 | .462 | 14.3 | 26.1 | .209 | 2.1 |
| 1955 | 40 | 23 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .182 | .100 | .282 | -18.4 | -19.7 | .150 | 1.2 |
| 1956 | 36 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .200 | .250 | .450 | 3.1 | 24.5 | .181 | 0.4 |
| 1957 | 30 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .353 | .353 | .588 | .941 | 160.5 | 158.3 | .408 | 0.7 |
| 1958 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 46.1 | 3.4 | .246 | -1.0 |
| 1959 | 31 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 85.7 | 87.4 | .306 | 0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 16 | 13 | 15 | 1 | 20.7 | 6.97 | 2.419 | 6.53 | 3.52 | 90.2 | 56.0 | -0.5 |
| 1952 | 29 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 100 | 42 | 31 | 45 | 7 | 92.0 | 4.11 | 1.424 | 4.40 | 3.50 | 98.5 | 86.6 | 0.3 |
| 1953 | 36 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 24 | 22 | 36 | 4 | 81.0 | 2.67 | 1.247 | 4.00 | 3.29 | 82.4 | 149.8 | 1.9 |
| 1954 | 40 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 77 | 31 | 34 | 68 | 11 | 99.3 | 2.81 | 1.117 | 6.16 | 3.54 | 94.1 | 134.2 | 2.1 |
| 1955 | 40 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 35 | 55 | 43 | 5 | 92.0 | 3.42 | 1.478 | 4.21 | 3.94 | 103.7 | 110.9 | 1.2 |
| 1956 | 36 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 21 | 21 | 26 | 9 | 51.0 | 3.71 | 1.471 | 4.59 | 4.80 | 136.1 | 95.2 | 0.4 |
| 1957 | 30 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 28 | 26 | 44 | 9 | 65.0 | 3.88 | 1.431 | 6.09 | 4.20 | 117.8 | 92.1 | 0.7 |
| 1958 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 21 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 23.3 | 8.10 | 1.929 | 5.01 | 5.04 | 139.6 | 44.5 | -1.0 |
| 1959 | 31 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 23 | 19 | 29 | 6 | 50.3 | 4.11 | 1.510 | 5.19 | 4.17 | 111.7 | 90.8 | 0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-06-05 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1957-09-02 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1957-08-24 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1952-08-20 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1952-09-12 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-09-22 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| 1957-06-05 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 7.1 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 4 |
| 1957-09-02 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 6.1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 1952-09-12 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| 1954-07-21 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 6.0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
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.