Heavy Johnson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 200 lb

BornApril 20, 1895 · Atchison, KS, USA

Seasons11 (1920–1932)

St. Louis Giants 1920; Kansas City Monarchs 1922–1924; Baltimore Black Sox 1925–1926; Harrisburg Giants 1927; Cleveland Tigers 1928; Memphis Red Sox 1928; Memphis Red Sox 1930; Louisville White Sox 1931; Newark Browns 1932

Percentile snapshot

1928 season — qualified batters

43.2

273

41.2

250

44.2

38.2

48.7

47.7

56.3

39.2

RBI

55.8

32.7

71.4

32.2

.348

86.9

OBP

.390

68.8

SLG

.468

71.4

OPS

.858

71.4

wRC+

129.9

76.4

OPS+

133.0

79.9

wOBA

.392

70.9

sWAR

1.9

66.3

of 200 qualified 1928 batters (min 260 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

20.2

93.7

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
1920	2	8	8	1	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	.250	.250	.500	.750	109.5	124.1	.346	0.0
1922	68	263	238	45	97	19	11	11	64	16	1	9	.408	.453	.718	1.172	190.0	210.9	.517	3.9
1923	98	429	374	91	152	32	13	20	120	38	0	17	.406	.471	.722	1.193	187.8	207.5	.526	6.1
1924	70	302	265	57	97	18	7	5	55	24	2	5	.366	.427	.543	.970	154.0	164.7	.448	2.8
1925	61	251	223	38	73	15	4	8	51	20	0	3	.327	.383	.538	.921	129.3	135.8	.412	1.5
1926	48	186	163	20	57	7	3	6	40	18	4	8	.350	.418	.540	.957	150.7	160.7	.443	1.7
1927	58	227	190	34	72	12	6	4	42	26	0	4	.379	.459	.568	1.027	160.2	168.2	.470	2.4
1928	69	273	250	38	87	14	5	2	45	16	0	0	.348	.390	.468	.858	129.9	133.0	.392	1.9
1930	5	13	12	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	36.8	33.5	.230	-0.1
1931	5	21	21	2	6	1	0	1	3	0	0	0	.286	.286	.476	.762	100.7	110.6	.348	0.1
1932	2	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	13.7	-28.3	.193	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1928	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	0	3.0	0.00	1.000	6.00	2.27	53.1	—	1.9

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

486

1,978

1,747

327

646

118

RBI

424

159

.3698

OBP

.4283

SLG

.5924

OPS

1.0207

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

1.0000

K/9

6.00

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
1923-06-04	MIL @ KCM Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	3	5	0	14
1923-04-29	CAG @ KCM Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	1	5	1	11
1923-05-21	KCM @ DTS Gameday	3	4	3	0	1	2	6	2	11
1922-09-05	KCM @ SLS Gameday	5	1	3	0	2	1	5	0	10
1923-07-31	CAG @ KCM Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	1	5	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1920-05-09	KCM @ SLS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-10	KCM @ SLS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-25	ABC @ SLS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-26	ABC @ SLS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-27	ABC @ SLS 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.