MLB / Players

Johnny Blanchard

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 193 lb
BornFebruary 26, 1933 · Minneapolis, MN, USA
MLB debutSeptember 25, 1955
Final gameSeptember 27, 1965
Seasons8 (1955–1965)

New York Yankees 1955; New York Yankees 1959–1964; Kansas City Athletics 1965; Milwaukee Braves 1965; New York Yankees 1965

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
5.8
81

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
19551430000001000.000.250.000.2500.1-26.5.1900.0
1959496659610102471200.169.258.288.54654.853.3.258-0.1
196053107998243141461700.242.292.414.70790.695.1.3150.5
19619327524338741012154272810.305.382.613.995161.1170.0.4223.3
1962932782463357701339283200.232.309.419.72898.698.9.3270.8
1963762472182249401645263000.225.305.463.768112.3115.1.3350.8
196477189161184180728242410.255.344.435.779112.6115.7.3421.0
196574186164123030416172000.183.258.274.53244.751.7.244-0.5

Career totals

G
516
PA
1,352
AB
1,193
R
137
H
285
2B
36
3B
2
HR
67
RBI
200
BB
136
SO
163
SB
2
BA
.2389
OBP
.3170
SLG
.4409
OPS
.7579

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
1961-06-18NYY @ DET Gameday533002209
1963-08-15NYY @ BOS Gameday522002608
1961-09-06TEX @ NYY Gameday422002408
1963-07-23LAA @ NYY Gameday422002408
1961-07-26CWS @ NYY Gameday422002208

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.