Johnny Cooney

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 165 lb

BornMarch 18, 1901 · Cranston, RI, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1921

Final gameJuly 30, 1944

Seasons20 (1921–1944)

Boston Braves 1921–1930; Brooklyn Dodgers 1935–1937; Boston Bees 1938–1940; Boston Braves 1941–1942; Brooklyn Dodgers 1943–1944; New York Yankees 1944

Percentile snapshot

1936 season — qualified batters

130

35.8

541

37.5

507

40.8

41.7

143

37.5

27.5

44.2

RBI

19.2

26.7

25.8

39.2

.282

23.3

OBP

.315

SLG

.335

5.8

OPS

.650

5.8

wRC+

71.5

6.7

OPS+

73.8

8.3

wOBA

.303

5.8

sWAR

0.0

9.2

of 121 qualified 1936 batters (min 483 PA)

1925 season — qualified pitchers

53.3

74.8

10.4

91.9

SHO

79.3

267

10.4

27.4

50.4

66.7

245.7

89.6

ERA

3.48

78.5

WHIP

1.290

77.8

K/9

2.38

22.2

FIP

4.18

74.8

FIP-

104.7

ERA+

114.7

64.4

sWAR

4.6

85.9

of 136 qualified 1925 pitchers (min 153 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

84.7

15.7

OPS+

85.9

16.9

sWAR

15.8

91.5

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1921	8	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	-0.9	8.4	.184	0.1
1922	4	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-113.5	-100.0	.000	0.6
1923	42	73	66	7	25	1	0	0	3	4	2	0	1	.379	.414	.394	.808	119.3	116.7	.380	2.3
1924	55	144	130	10	33	2	1	0	4	9	5	0	4	.254	.302	.285	.587	60.0	60.5	.279	3.3
1925	54	112	103	17	33	7	0	0	13	3	6	1	0	.320	.346	.388	.734	92.3	93.5	.335	4.6
1926	64	147	126	17	38	3	2	0	18	13	7	6	0	.302	.367	.357	.724	104.8	102.3	.344	0.7
1927	10	1	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-115.1	-100.0	.000	0.0
1928	33	46	41	2	7	0	0	0	2	4	3	0	0	.171	.244	.171	.415	10.8	11.7	.211	0.4
1929	41	76	72	10	23	4	1	0	6	3	3	1	0	.319	.355	.403	.758	89.0	89.7	.346	0.4
1930	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-110.3	-100.0	.000	-0.9
1935	10	32	29	3	9	0	1	0	1	3	2	0	0	.310	.375	.379	.754	107.6	104.6	.351	0.2
1936	130	541	507	71	143	17	5	0	30	24	15	3	0	.282	.315	.335	.650	71.5	73.8	.303	0.0
1937	120	458	430	61	126	18	5	0	37	22	10	5	0	.293	.327	.358	.686	82.3	84.2	.318	0.6
1938	120	466	432	45	117	25	5	0	17	22	12	2	0	.271	.308	.352	.660	87.4	90.4	.305	0.2
1939	118	402	368	39	101	8	1	2	27	21	8	2	0	.274	.317	.318	.635	74.6	76.4	.299	0.2
1940	108	404	365	40	116	14	3	0	21	25	9	4	0	.318	.363	.373	.736	108.0	107.2	.343	1.8
1941	123	478	442	52	141	25	2	0	29	27	15	3	0	.319	.358	.385	.743	111.2	111.8	.349	2.3
1942	74	226	198	23	41	6	0	0	7	23	5	2	0	.207	.290	.237	.527	55.1	55.1	.265	-0.9
1943	37	39	34	7	7	0	0	0	2	4	3	1	0	.206	.289	.206	.495	43.0	43.2	.255	-0.2
1944	17	14	12	1	4	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	.333	.385	.333	.718	107.8	98.9	.346	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1921	8	1	0	1	0	0	0	19	9	10	9	3	20.7	3.92	1.403	3.92	5.46	150.6	92.5	0.1
1922	4	3	1	2	0	1	0	19	6	6	7	0	25.0	2.16	1.000	2.52	3.35	84.6	183.6	0.6
1923	23	8	3	5	0	5	2	92	36	22	23	3	98.0	3.31	1.163	2.11	3.65	93.6	118.1	2.3
1924	34	19	8	9	2	12	2	176	64	50	67	4	181.0	3.18	1.249	3.33	3.40	90.5	117.8	3.3
1925	31	29	14	14	0	20	2	267	95	50	65	18	245.7	3.48	1.290	2.38	4.18	104.7	114.7	4.6
1926	19	8	3	3	0	3	1	106	37	29	23	0	83.3	4.00	1.620	2.48	3.65	102.2	89.4	0.7
1928	24	6	3	7	1	2	0	106	43	31	18	7	89.7	4.32	1.528	1.81	4.42	114.0	89.9	0.4
1929	14	2	2	3	3	1	0	57	25	22	11	4	45.0	5.00	1.756	2.20	5.44	118.1	92.2	0.4
1930	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	14	3	1	2	7.0	18.00	2.714	1.29	8.69	180.2	26.8	-0.9

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

1,172

3,675

3,372

409

965

130

RBI

219

208

107

.2862

500th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3288

SLG

.3419

OPS

.6707

Pitching

G (P)

159

SHO

795

SO (P)

224

BB allowed

223

ERA

3.723

WHIP

1.3592

K/9

2.53

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	RBI	BB	TB
1937-08-21	ATL @ LAD Gameday	4	2	4	3	1	2	1	9
1941-05-07	PIT @ ATL Gameday	5	2	5	3	0	2	0	8
1939-09-21	ATL @ PIT Gameday	5	1	5	0	1	2	0	7
1938-06-12	ATL @ CIN Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	0	0	6
1937-06-24	LAD @ STL Gameday	4	0	3	1	1	3	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1924-06-25	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	4	1	0	1	7
1924-07-19	ATL @ STL Gameday	8.0	4	2	2	3	6
1924-09-15	PIT @ ATL Gameday	12.0	8	4	4	1	5
1922-09-02	PHI @ ATL Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	4	5
1924-09-06	LAD @ ATL Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	1	4

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.