MLB / Players

Johnny Burnett

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornNovember 1, 1904 · Bartow, FL, USA

MLB debutMay 7, 1927

Final gameSeptember 29, 1935

Seasons9 (1927–1935)

Cleveland Indians 1927–1934; St. Louis Browns 1935

Percentile snapshot

1932 season — qualified batters

129

573

512

63.9

70.5

152

65.7

57.8

51.2

56.6

RBI

59.6

71.7

38.6

18.1

14.5

.297

57.2

OBP

.359

56.6

SLG

.385

41.6

OPS

.744

45.2

wRC+

89.6

30.7

OPS+

88.8

29.5

wOBA

.346

42.8

sWAR

1.6

56.6

of 167 qualified 1932 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.5

75.4

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
1927	17	8	8	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.9	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1928	3	10	10	3	5	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	167.0	161.8	.463	0.1
1929	19	35	33	2	5	1	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	.152	.200	.182	.382	-9.4	-2.8	.186	-0.3
1930	54	194	170	28	53	13	0	0	20	17	8	2	2	.312	.378	.388	.766	93.6	91.2	.355	0.6
1931	111	470	427	85	128	25	5	1	52	39	25	5	2	.300	.360	.389	.749	91.9	91.4	.349	1.4
1932	129	573	512	81	152	23	5	4	53	46	27	2	5	.297	.359	.385	.744	89.6	88.8	.346	1.6
1933	83	292	261	39	71	11	2	1	29	23	14	3	2	.272	.333	.341	.674	77.2	76.7	.319	0.3
1934	72	229	208	28	61	11	2	3	30	18	11	1	1	.293	.352	.409	.761	95.2	96.1	.354	0.7
1935	70	231	206	17	46	10	1	0	26	19	16	1	0	.223	.289	.282	.570	41.3	44.1	.274	-0.8

Career totals

558

2,042

1,835

288

521

RBI

213

163

107

.2839

OBP

.3453

SLG

.3662

OPS

.7115

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
1932-07-10	ATH @ CLE Gameday	11	4	9	2	0	0	2	0	11
1932-08-07	MIN @ CLE Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	2	0	8
1934-08-22	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	2	1	8
1933-08-26	MIN @ CLE Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	0	0	0	7
1931-07-26	ATH @ CLE Gameday	6	4	5	1	0	0	3	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1927-04-12	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-13	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-14	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-15	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-17	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.