Johnny Bassler
Cleveland Naps 1913–1914; Detroit Tigers 1921–1927
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.0 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1914 | 43 | 93 | 77 | 5 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 2 | .182 | .323 | .221 | .543 | 69.8 | 60.3 | .293 | 0.2 |
| 1921 | 119 | 463 | 388 | 37 | 119 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 56 | 58 | 16 | 2 | 1 | .307 | .401 | .379 | .780 | 104.8 | 99.5 | .374 | 2.7 |
| 1922 | 121 | 453 | 372 | 41 | 120 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 62 | 12 | 2 | 1 | .323 | .422 | .360 | .782 | 115.4 | 107.4 | .380 | 3.3 |
| 1923 | 135 | 477 | 383 | 45 | 114 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 49 | 76 | 13 | 2 | 2 | .298 | .414 | .345 | .759 | 111.1 | 102.2 | .376 | 3.2 |
| 1924 | 124 | 456 | 379 | 43 | 131 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 68 | 62 | 11 | 2 | 1 | .346 | .441 | .422 | .864 | 129.5 | 123.6 | .416 | 4.1 |
| 1925 | 121 | 433 | 344 | 40 | 96 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 52 | 74 | 6 | 1 | 1 | .279 | .408 | .352 | .760 | 103.3 | 94.8 | .374 | 2.5 |
| 1926 | 66 | 227 | 174 | 20 | 53 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 45 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .305 | .447 | .362 | .810 | 123.5 | 111.2 | .402 | 1.9 |
| 1927 | 81 | 254 | 200 | 19 | 57 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 45 | 9 | 1 | 0 | .285 | .416 | .320 | .736 | 102.1 | 91.0 | .368 | 1.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926-05-25 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1923-07-04 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1924-06-17 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1924-07-21 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1923-09-03 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913-04-11 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1913-04-12 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1913-04-14 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1913-04-15 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1913-04-16 | DET @ CLE 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.