Johnie Watson
Detroit Stars 1922–1924; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1925; Detroit Stars 1926
Percentile snapshot
1925 season — qualified batters
of 163 qualified 1925 batters (min 108 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 15 | 43 | 39 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .077 | .143 | .077 | .220 | -19.9 | -39.5 | .120 | -0.6 |
| 1923 | 60 | 270 | 245 | 54 | 69 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 27 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .282 | .333 | .359 | .693 | 83.1 | 80.6 | .325 | 0.1 |
| 1924 | 30 | 98 | 87 | 15 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .253 | .323 | .345 | .668 | 85.5 | 83.0 | .320 | 0.0 |
| 1925 | 35 | 143 | 133 | 16 | 31 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .233 | .266 | .286 | .552 | 47.1 | 42.9 | .257 | -0.7 |
| 1926 | 51 | 201 | 182 | 26 | 42 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 3 | 11 | 0 | .231 | .282 | .319 | .601 | 57.4 | 54.5 | .281 | -0.6 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923-08-08 | CUB @ DTS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1923-07-04 | CUB @ DTS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1923-09-02 | CAG @ DTS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1923-06-10 | ABC @ DTS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1923-06-27 | DTS @ CAG Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922-05-06 | CUB @ DTS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1922-05-07 | CUB @ DTS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1922-05-08 | CUB @ DTS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1922-05-09 | CUB @ DTS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1922-05-10 | CUB @ DTS 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.