John Whitehead
Chicago White Sox 1935–1939; St. Louis Browns 1939–1940; St. Louis Browns 1942
Percentile snapshot
1938 season — qualified pitchers
of 95 qualified 1938 pitchers (min 149 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 28 | 90 | 82 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .146 | .186 | .146 | .332 | -22.8 | -14.1 | .165 | 3.6 |
| 1936 | 34 | 99 | 87 | 6 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .241 | .283 | .253 | .535 | 30.9 | 31.9 | .257 | 3.5 |
| 1937 | 26 | 67 | 58 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .224 | .286 | .241 | .527 | 34.5 | 34.9 | .256 | 2.6 |
| 1938 | 32 | 70 | 60 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .169 | .100 | .269 | -33.6 | -31.2 | .144 | 1.6 |
| 1939 | 33 | 28 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .038 | .107 | .038 | .146 | -66.6 | -61.6 | .087 | -1.2 |
| 1940 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | -29.3 | -14.7 | .152 | 0.0 |
| 1942 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 28 | 27 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 209 | 92 | 101 | 72 | 17 | 222.3 | 3.72 | 1.394 | 2.91 | 4.83 | 106.0 | 122.3 | 3.6 |
| 1936 | 34 | 32 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 254 | 119 | 98 | 70 | 9 | 230.7 | 4.64 | 1.526 | 2.73 | 4.73 | 92.2 | 110.5 | 3.5 |
| 1937 | 26 | 24 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 191 | 75 | 56 | 45 | 14 | 165.7 | 4.07 | 1.491 | 2.44 | 4.79 | 104.7 | 112.2 | 2.6 |
| 1938 | 32 | 24 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 218 | 97 | 80 | 38 | 12 | 183.3 | 4.76 | 1.625 | 1.87 | 4.91 | 101.9 | 101.2 | 1.6 |
| 1939 | 33 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 148 | 72 | 22 | 18 | 14 | 98.0 | 6.61 | 1.735 | 1.65 | 5.36 | 113.3 | 71.4 | -1.2 |
| 1940 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 46 | 24 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 40.0 | 5.40 | 1.500 | 2.48 | 4.40 | 97.3 | 83.7 | 0.0 |
| 1942 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 6.75 | 2.250 | 0.00 | 4.05 | 108.9 | 55.1 | -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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-09-11 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1935-05-30 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1936-05-11 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 1935-09-14 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1937-06-11 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935-05-26 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 10.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
| 1935-06-20 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 10.0 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 1 |
| 1935-06-15 | NYY @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1937-07-02 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 7.1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 1936-08-13 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 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.