MLB / Players

Jimmy Johnston

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornDecember 10, 1889 · Cleveland, TN, USA

MLB debutMay 3, 1911

Final gameSeptember 11, 1926

Seasons13 (1911–1926)

Chicago White Sox 1911; Chicago Cubs 1914; Brooklyn Robins 1916–1925; Boston Braves 1926; New York Giants 1926

Percentile snapshot

1925 season — qualified batters

123

490

54.3

431

56.2

46.9

128

54.3

35.2

20.4

19.8

RBI

64.8

42.6

48.1

28.4

.297

OBP

.369

48.8

SLG

.355

16.7

OPS

.724

23.5

wRC+

91.4

27.2

OPS+

87.9

22.8

wOBA

.340

24.7

sWAR

1.0

33.3

of 163 qualified 1925 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

101.8

45.1

OPS+

100.9

43.5

sWAR

20.4

93.8

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1911	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-104.6	-100.0	.000	0.0
1914	50	111	101	9	23	3	2	1	8	4	9	3	0	.228	.264	.327	.591	69.3	75.2	.282	0.0
1916	118	472	425	58	107	13	8	1	26	35	38	22	19	.252	.313	.327	.640	96.1	95.7	.309	1.2
1917	103	369	330	33	89	10	4	0	25	23	28	16	0	.270	.321	.324	.645	96.7	96.5	.312	0.8
1918	123	528	484	54	136	16	8	0	27	33	31	22	0	.281	.328	.347	.675	105.9	106.3	.327	1.5
1919	117	453	405	56	114	11	4	1	23	29	26	11	0	.281	.334	.336	.670	101.7	100.5	.322	1.8
1920	155	708	635	87	185	17	12	1	52	43	23	19	15	.291	.338	.361	.699	99.0	98.8	.331	2.5
1921	152	689	624	104	203	41	14	5	56	45	26	28	16	.325	.372	.460	.832	118.1	117.5	.378	4.1
1922	138	617	567	110	181	20	7	4	49	38	17	18	9	.319	.364	.400	.764	98.7	98.4	.355	2.3
1923	151	693	625	111	203	29	11	4	60	53	15	16	13	.325	.378	.426	.803	115.1	114.7	.372	4.0
1924	86	354	315	51	94	11	2	2	29	27	10	5	6	.298	.356	.365	.721	98.2	96.5	.338	1.4
1925	123	490	431	63	128	13	3	2	43	45	15	7	5	.297	.369	.355	.724	91.4	87.9	.340	1.0
1926	60	142	126	18	30	1	0	1	10	16	8	2	0	.238	.324	.270	.594	69.2	65.2	.293	-0.1

Career totals

1,377

5,628

5,070

754

1,493

185

331st-most career 3B

RBI

410

391

247

169

479th-most career SB

.2945

320th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3474

SLG

.3736

OPS

.7210

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
1922-05-25	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	2	0	10
1923-06-30	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	1	2	1	9
1923-06-27	LAD @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	5	2	9
1922-06-10	CHC @ LAD Gameday	5	4	5	0	1	0	1	0	7
1921-07-16	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	0	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1911-04-13	CWS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-14	CWS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-15	CWS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-16	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-17	CWS @ BAL 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.