MLB / Players

John Stone

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 178 lb

BornOctober 10, 1905 · Lynchburg, TN, USA

MLB debutAugust 31, 1928

Final gameJune 17, 1938

Seasons11 (1928–1938)

Detroit Tigers 1928–1933; Washington Senators 1934–1938

Percentile snapshot

1937 season — qualified batters

139

51.5

609

53.5

542

52.5

53.5

179

74.7

68.7

45.5

RBI

76.8

70.7

55.6

48.5

25.3

.330

75.8

OBP

.403

81.8

SLG

.480

72.7

OPS

.883

77.8

wRC+

126.2

72.7

OPS+

125.9

70.7

wOBA

.402

76.8

sWAR

3.4

71.7

of 100 qualified 1937 batters (min 489 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

115.5

72.6

OPS+

116.6

73.9

sWAR

21.4

94.1

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
1928	26	122	113	20	40	10	3	2	21	5	8	1	0	.354	.387	.549	.935	138.1	139.9	.419	0.9
1929	51	163	150	23	39	11	2	2	15	11	13	1	1	.260	.311	.400	.711	77.1	80.2	.324	-0.1
1930	127	465	425	60	132	29	11	3	56	32	49	6	9	.311	.360	.452	.812	100.9	101.9	.365	1.2
1931	147	647	584	86	191	28	11	10	76	56	48	13	13	.327	.388	.464	.852	119.7	119.9	.391	3.1
1932	145	643	582	106	173	35	12	17	108	58	64	2	1	.297	.361	.486	.847	115.6	118.0	.381	3.0
1933	148	632	574	86	161	33	11	11	80	54	37	1	4	.280	.344	.434	.778	102.8	104.6	.357	1.6
1934	113	483	419	77	132	28	7	7	67	52	26	1	2	.315	.395	.465	.860	124.6	124.9	.397	2.6
1935	125	498	455	78	143	27	18	1	78	39	29	4	5	.314	.372	.459	.832	115.5	116.8	.381	2.1
1936	123	500	437	95	149	22	11	15	90	60	26	8	0	.341	.421	.545	.965	138.8	141.7	.435	3.6
1937	139	609	542	84	179	33	15	6	88	66	36	6	4	.330	.403	.480	.883	126.2	125.9	.402	3.4
1938	56	244	213	24	52	12	4	3	28	30	16	2	1	.244	.337	.380	.718	85.5	84.5	.335	0.1

Career totals

1,200

5,006

4,494

739

1,391

268

105

146th-most career 3B

RBI

707

463

352

.3095

123rd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3755

231st-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4673

312th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8428

229th-highest career OPS

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
1933-04-30	DET @ BAL Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	2	0	10
1936-09-27	NYY @ MIN Gameday	5	2	5	0	2	0	3	0	9
1932-07-15	DET @ ATH Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	4	2	9
1935-06-16	MIN @ BAL Gameday	6	5	5	1	1	0	5	0	8
1937-07-25	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	4	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1928-04-11	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-12	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-13	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-14	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-15	CLE @ DET 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.