Johnny Allen

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornSeptember 30, 1904 · Lenoir, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1932

Final gameSeptember 26, 1944

Seasons13 (1932–1944)

New York Yankees 1932–1935; Cleveland Indians 1936–1940; Brooklyn Dodgers 1941; St. Louis Browns 1941; Brooklyn Dodgers 1942–1943; New York Giants 1943–1944

Percentile snapshot

1939 season — qualified pitchers

40.9

66.7

55.9

54.8

SHO

65.6

199

39.8

34.4

50.5

54.8

175.0

53.8

ERA

4.58

26.9

WHIP

1.457

33.3

K/9

4.06

59.1

FIP

3.91

64.5

FIP-

89.4

73.1

ERA+

95.7

31.2

sWAR

1.5

39.8

of 94 qualified 1939 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

114.1

80.7

sWAR

28.6

96.2

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1932	33	80	73	5	9	2	1	1	5	4	22	0	.123	.169	.219	.388	-4.9	0.0	.181	3.2
1933	25	78	72	7	13	1	1	0	3	4	16	0	.181	.224	.222	.446	21.7	22.4	.214	1.1
1934	13	32	26	2	5	0	0	0	1	4	6	0	.192	.300	.192	.492	43.9	34.1	.257	1.7
1935	23	73	67	12	15	1	0	1	12	3	13	0	.224	.257	.284	.541	40.8	44.8	.253	2.7
1936	37	101	87	12	14	0	0	0	10	6	18	0	.161	.215	.161	.376	-6.0	-5.8	.189	5.9
1937	24	72	67	5	6	0	0	0	6	1	15	0	.090	.103	.090	.192	-65.6	-51.0	.092	4.8
1938	30	85	79	12	20	2	1	1	14	3	14	1	.253	.280	.342	.622	53.1	57.5	.285	3.3
1939	34	76	71	10	16	2	0	0	3	3	11	0	.225	.257	.254	.510	32.7	34.4	.240	1.5
1940	32	49	48	3	10	3	0	0	3	1	9	0	.208	.224	.271	.495	24.4	31.2	.224	2.5
1941	31	45	42	6	4	0	0	1	4	1	8	0	.095	.116	.167	.283	-42.5	-25.8	.130	0.1
1942	27	44	39	3	7	0	0	0	2	1	11	0	.179	.200	.179	.379	-3.3	11.3	.184	1.3
1943	32	26	21	3	3	1	0	0	1	2	3	0	.143	.217	.190	.408	8.7	26.6	.208	0.6
1944	24	24	24	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	9	0	.083	.083	.083	.167	-76.7	-53.3	.078	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1932	33	21	17	4	4	13	3	162	79	76	109	10	192.0	3.70	1.240	5.11	3.93	88.3	120.4	3.2
1933	25	24	15	7	1	10	1	171	90	87	119	9	184.7	4.39	1.397	5.80	3.85	96.2	91.4	1.1
1934	13	10	5	2	0	4	0	62	23	32	54	3	71.7	2.89	1.312	6.78	3.62	86.6	144.5	1.7
1935	23	23	13	6	0	12	2	149	67	58	113	11	167.0	3.61	1.240	6.09	3.71	89.5	114.8	2.7
1936	36	31	20	10	1	19	4	234	93	97	165	5	243.0	3.44	1.362	6.11	3.61	71.7	146.1	5.9
1937	24	20	15	1	0	14	0	157	49	60	87	4	173.0	2.55	1.254	4.53	3.55	77.0	180.8	4.8
1938	30	27	14	8	0	13	0	189	93	81	112	15	200.0	4.19	1.350	5.04	4.23	90.9	111.2	3.3
1939	28	26	9	7	0	9	2	199	89	56	79	9	175.0	4.58	1.457	4.06	3.91	89.4	95.7	1.5
1940	32	17	9	8	5	5	3	126	53	48	62	3	138.7	3.44	1.255	4.02	3.41	82.2	120.7	2.5
1941	31	13	5	5	1	3	0	127	65	41	48	10	124.3	4.71	1.351	3.47	3.98	99.3	85.5	0.1
1942	27	15	10	6	3	5	1	106	42	39	50	11	118.0	3.20	1.229	3.81	3.69	111.0	103.8	1.3
1943	32	1	6	4	3	0	0	79	32	39	39	7	79.0	3.65	1.494	4.44	4.19	122.4	94.0	0.6
1944	18	13	4	7	0	2	1	88	38	24	33	7	84.0	4.07	1.333	3.54	3.76	102.6	89.9	0.2

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

365

785

716

124

RBI

155

.1732

OBP

.2096

SLG

.2151

OPS

.4247

Pitching

G (P)

352

241

142

301st-most career W

109

367th-most career CG

SHO

317th-most career SHO

1,950

484th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,070

BB allowed

738

325th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.752

WHIP

1.3264

K/9

4.94

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1932-05-21	MIN @ NYY Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	3	0	6
1938-07-29	MIN @ CLE Gameday	4	2	2	1	1	3	0	6
1935-06-12	NYY @ BAL Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	0	4
1941-05-21	BAL @ BOS Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	0	4
1936-06-13	CLE @ ATH Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	4	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1933-09-10	DET @ NYY Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	2	12
1934-08-03	ATH @ NYY Gameday	8.2	7	1	1	1	12
1933-06-04	ATH @ NYY Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	1	11
1934-05-07	BAL @ NYY Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	3	11
1935-05-11	NYY @ CLE Gameday	9.0	11	4	4	3	11

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

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.