Johnnie Cowan
Birmingham Black Barons 1940; Cincinnati-Cleveland Buckeyes 1942; Cleveland Buckeyes 1944–1947; Memphis Red Sox 1948
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .182 | -33.9 | -45.2 | .088 | -0.1 |
| 1942 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 187.6 | 198.2 | .469 | 0.1 |
| 1944 | 17 | 64 | 58 | 6 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .241 | .290 | .276 | .566 | 77.6 | 75.8 | .280 | 0.1 |
| 1945 | 20 | 81 | 77 | 5 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .234 | .253 | .234 | .487 | 48.5 | 43.0 | .234 | -0.2 |
| 1946 | 17 | 67 | 64 | 11 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .313 | .333 | .344 | .677 | 96.9 | 99.8 | .328 | 0.2 |
| 1947 | 19 | 74 | 71 | 11 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .296 | .315 | .380 | .695 | 84.0 | 86.7 | .327 | 0.1 |
| 1948 | 11 | 45 | 40 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .175 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 42.7 | 34.1 | .245 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-06-05 | CLB @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 1947-06-25 | IC @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1948-08-19 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1944-08-14 | CAG @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 1947-08-31 | CLB @ NYC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-05-12 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-12 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-13 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-16 | HSL @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-17 | HSL @ BBB 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.