Johnny Bates

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 168 lb

BornJanuary 10, 1884 · Steubenville, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 12, 1906

Final gameOctober 10, 1914

Seasons9 (1906–1914)

Boston Beaneaters 1906; Boston Doves 1907–1909; Philadelphia Phillies 1909–1910; Cincinnati Reds 1911–1913; Baltimore Terrapins 1914; Chicago Cubs 1914; Cincinnati Reds 1914

Percentile snapshot

1913 season — qualified batters

131

28.2

492

21.4

407

23.3

44.7

113

25.2

44.7

82.5

RBI

52.4

86.4

51.5

.278

50.5

OBP

.388

79.6

SLG

.388

59.2

OPS

.776

72.8

wRC+

126.7

74.8

OPS+

121.8

71.8

wOBA

.375

73.8

sWAR

2.8

68.9

of 104 qualified 1913 batters (min 483 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

123.9

84.8

OPS+

121.0

80.5

sWAR

27.1

95.9

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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
1906	140	559	504	52	127	21	5	6	54	36	82	9	.252	.315	.349	.664	105.0	106.8	.327	2.5
1907	126	504	447	52	116	18	12	2	49	39	56	11	.260	.329	.367	.695	114.7	115.0	.342	2.0
1908	127	495	445	48	115	14	6	1	29	35	47	25	.258	.315	.324	.639	102.5	102.6	.314	1.2
1909	140	580	502	70	146	26	4	2	38	48	53	37	.291	.360	.371	.730	124.4	123.3	.360	3.3
1910	135	582	498	91	152	26	11	3	61	61	49	31	.305	.385	.420	.805	133.3	132.6	.391	4.4
1911	148	646	518	89	151	24	13	1	61	103	59	33	.292	.415	.394	.808	135.9	131.6	.397	5.2
1912	81	297	239	45	69	12	7	1	29	47	16	10	.289	.406	.410	.816	131.0	127.6	.395	2.2
1913	131	492	407	63	113	13	7	6	51	67	30	21	.278	.388	.388	.776	126.7	121.8	.375	2.8
1914	126	442	353	55	98	13	8	3	45	67	36	10	.278	.404	.385	.789	135.2	127.7	.387	3.5

Career totals

1,154

4,597

3,913

565

1,087

167

354th-most career 3B

RBI

417

503

428

187

409th-most career SB

.2778

OBP

.3671

341st-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3769

OPS

.7440

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	TB
1907-04-26	ATL @ LAD Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	1	2	10
1909-08-31	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	1	0	9
1907-05-28	LAD @ ATL Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	0	1	8
1908-08-22	ATL @ CHC Gameday	6	2	5	1	0	0	0	6
1909-05-03	ATL @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	0	4	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1906-04-12	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1906-04-13	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1906-04-14	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1906-04-15	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1906-04-17	ATL @ PHI 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.