MLB / Players

Johnny Butler

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornMarch 20, 1893 · Fall River, KS, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1926

Final gameOctober 5, 1929

Seasons4 (1926–1929)

Brooklyn Robins 1926–1927; Chicago Cubs 1928; St. Louis Cardinals 1929

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified batters

149

88.8

577

69.8

521

72.8

20.7

124

50.3

28.4

43.2

25.4

RBI

56.2

51.5

16.6

52.1

32.5

.238

6.5

OBP

.292

6.5

SLG

.298

7.7

OPS

.590

5.3

wRC+

58.0

4.7

OPS+

58.9

6.5

wOBA

.281

4.7

sWAR

-0.6

4.7

of 170 qualified 1927 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

1.1

64.6

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
1926	147	577	501	54	135	27	5	1	68	54	44	6	.269	.346	.349	.696	91.3	88.9	.331	1.9
1927	149	577	521	39	124	13	6	2	57	34	33	9	.238	.292	.298	.590	58.0	58.9	.281	-0.6
1928	62	202	174	17	47	7	0	0	16	19	7	2	.270	.352	.310	.662	80.3	76.6	.320	0.3
1929	17	59	55	5	9	1	1	0	5	4	5	0	.164	.220	.218	.439	6.2	9.3	.209	-0.5

Career totals

375

1,415

1,251

115

315

RBI

146

111

.2518

OBP

.3198

SLG

.3165

OPS

.6363

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
1926-07-05	LAD @ ATL Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	0	4	6
1926-09-09	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	0	1	6
1926-07-13	LAD @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	3	6
1927-06-12	PIT @ LAD Gameday	4	3	3	2	0	0	2	5
1927-05-01	SF @ LAD Gameday	4	0	3	2	0	0	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1926-04-13	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-14	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-16	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-17	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-18	PHI @ LAD 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.