Johnny Babich
Brooklyn Dodgers 1934–1935; Boston Bees 1936; Philadelphia Athletics 1940–1941
Percentile snapshot
1940 season — qualified pitchers
of 95 qualified 1940 pitchers (min 154 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 25 | 51 | 50 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .140 | .140 | .140 | .280 | -35.5 | -23.5 | .128 | 0.7 |
| 1935 | 37 | 52 | 49 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 0 | .184 | .200 | .224 | .424 | 7.8 | 14.6 | .195 | -2.8 |
| 1936 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -116.4 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
| 1940 | 31 | 91 | 86 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .116 | .146 | .128 | .274 | -39.0 | -28.3 | .132 | 3.4 |
| 1941 | 16 | 29 | 25 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .444 | .480 | .924 | 147.6 | 144.0 | .427 | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 25 | 19 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 148 | 63 | 51 | 62 | 5 | 135.0 | 4.20 | 1.474 | 4.13 | 3.83 | 97.2 | 93.7 | 0.7 |
| 1935 | 37 | 24 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 191 | 106 | 52 | 55 | 7 | 143.3 | 6.66 | 1.695 | 3.45 | 4.02 | 101.3 | 59.6 | -2.8 |
| 1936 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 6.0 | 10.50 | 2.833 | 1.50 | 8.38 | 220.2 | 36.2 | -0.4 |
| 1940 | 31 | 30 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 222 | 95 | 80 | 94 | 16 | 229.3 | 3.73 | 1.317 | 3.69 | 4.07 | 92.8 | 117.6 | 3.4 |
| 1941 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 85 | 53 | 31 | 19 | 9 | 78.3 | 6.09 | 1.481 | 2.18 | 5.07 | 121.9 | 68.4 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-05-23 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1941-08-02 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1934-09-19 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1934-08-15 | LAD @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1935-07-05 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935-07-19 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 1940-05-28 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 8.1 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1934-08-29 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
| 1935-04-19 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1940-04-19 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 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.