MLB / Players

Johnnie Wittig

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb
BornJune 16, 1914 · Baltimore, MD, USA
MLB debutAugust 4, 1938
Final gameJune 22, 1949
Seasons5 (1938–1949)

New York Giants 1938–1939; New York Giants 1941; New York Giants 1943; Boston Red Sox 1949

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified pitchers

G
40
96.1
GS
22
47.1
W
5
22.5
L
15
8.8
SV
4
95.1
CG
4
14.7
SHO
1
24.5
H
172
46.1
ER
77
17.6
BB
76
16.7
SO
56
44.1
HR
14
3.9
IP
164.0
40.2
ERA
4.23
18.6
WHIP
1.512
15.7
K/9
3.07
31.4
FIP
4.29
20.6
FIP-
124.5
2
ERA+
81.5
10.8
sWAR
-0.4
2

of 103 qualified 1943 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-2.3
0.9

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19381311100000000300.000.000.000.000-127.0-100.0.000-0.2
19395550000000300.000.000.000.000-130.1-100.0.000-0.6
19412527252500031800.200.231.200.43112.120.9.209-1.1
194340545135100211400.098.115.118.233-58.5-33.4.114-0.4
19491000000000000-0.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19381362302041212614439.34.811.7033.205.33141.078.6-0.2
193952020101814144016.77.561.9202.165.03127.952.0-0.6
194125935000111534547585.35.591.8284.963.84103.866.2-1.1
1943402251544117277765614164.04.231.5123.074.29124.581.5-0.4
19491000000222002.09.002.0000.005.49123.649.4-0.1

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

G
84
PA
97
AB
91
R
5
H
10
2B
1
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
5
BB
2
SO
28
SB
0
BA
.1099
OBP
.1290
SLG
.1209
OPS
.2499

Pitching

G (P)
84
GS
39
W
10
L
25
SV
4
CG
7
SHO
1
IP
307
SO (P)
121
BB allowed
163
ERA
4.890
WHIP
1.6497
K/9
3.54

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1943-05-27SF @ CHC Gameday311100002
1941-06-22SF @ STL Gameday411000101
1941-06-28PHI @ SF Gameday301000101
1941-08-03SF @ PIT Gameday201000101
1943-05-22STL @ SF Gameday201000101

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1941-07-24SF @ STL Gameday9.01222270
1941-06-22SF @ STL Gameday8.1522360
1943-06-12PHI @ SF Gameday8.21044250
1941-08-10PHI @ SF Gameday8.01043151
1943-09-29SF @ CHC Gameday7.2611250

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.