MLB / Players

Jimmy Johnson

HandednessThrows Left
Listed at6 ft 2 in · 170 lb
BornDecember 20, 1918 · Morgantown, WV, USA
Seasons2 (1939–1940)

Toledo Crawfords 1939; Toledo-Indianapolis Crawfords 1940

Percentile snapshot

1939 season — qualified pitchers

G
8
5.4
GS
8
12.9
W
3
8.6
L
4
74.2
SV
0
0
CG
6
22.6
SHO
0
0
H
49
93.5
ER
20
94.6
BB
21
83.9
SO
39
18.3
HR
0
97.8
IP
58.7
8.6
ERA
3.07
82.8
WHIP
1.193
86
K/9
5.98
90.3
FIP
3.52
87.1
FIP-
77.4
94.6
ERA+
146.3
87.1
sWAR
1.5
39.8

of 94 qualified 1939 pitchers (min 19 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
1.4
66.7

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19391231292800031000.276.300.276.57664.161.1.2751.5
1940926253520021020.200.231.280.51154.954.1.249-0.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1939883406049202139058.73.071.1935.983.5277.4146.31.5
194021010109668010.05.401.5007.203.9395.276.5-0.1

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

G
21
PA
57
AB
54
R
5
H
13
2B
2
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
5
BB
2
SO
0
SB
2
BA
.2407
OBP
.2679
SLG
.2778
OPS
.5457

Pitching

G (P)
10
GS
9
W
3
L
5
SV
0
CG
7
SHO
0
IP
69
SO (P)
47
BB allowed
27
ERA
3.408
WHIP
1.2379
K/9
6.16

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1939-05-30TIC @ PHS Gameday412000002
1940-07-26HSL @ TIC Gameday401100102
1940-06-09TIC @ JRC Gameday411100002
1940-06-28KCM @ TIC Gameday301000111
1939-05-14NBY @ TIC Gameday401000001

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1939-06-18NYC @ TIC Gameday10.0211480
1940-08-18TIC @ KCM Gameday6.0744380
1939-05-27NE @ TIC Gameday8.0844540
1939-05-14NBY @ TIC Gameday9.01066230
1939-05-30TIC @ PHS Gameday8.0742210

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.

Honors

All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.