Johnny Evers

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 125 lb

BornJuly 21, 1881 · Troy, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 1, 1902

Final gameOctober 6, 1929

Seasons18 (1902–1929)

Chicago Orphans 1902; Chicago Cubs 1903–1913; Boston Braves 1914–1917; Philadelphia Phillies 1917; Chicago White Sox 1922; Boston Braves 1929

Percentile snapshot

1914 season — qualified batters

139

49.7

611

73.6

491

47.9

79.8

137

57.7

52.8

18.4

17.2

RBI

37.4

96.3

74.8

23.3

.279

55.2

OBP

.390

85.9

SLG

.338

30.7

OPS

.728

58.9

wRC+

125.9

76.1

OPS+

118.4

68.7

wOBA

.363

67.5

sWAR

4.2

87.7

of 164 qualified 1914 batters (min 489 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

112.1

65.8

OPS+

108.1

58.4

sWAR

38.2

97.7

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
1902	26	98	90	7	20	0	0	0	2	3	9	1	0	.222	.263	.222	.485	51.1	50.0	.245	-0.2
1903	124	497	464	70	136	27	7	0	52	19	27	25	0	.293	.325	.381	.707	101.7	105.1	.337	2.0
1904	152	587	532	49	141	14	7	0	47	28	22	26	0	.265	.307	.318	.624	94.4	95.2	.303	1.9
1905	99	389	340	44	94	11	2	1	37	27	20	19	0	.276	.333	.329	.663	99.1	98.4	.324	1.4
1906	154	595	533	65	136	17	6	1	51	36	24	49	0	.255	.305	.315	.620	90.6	92.8	.307	1.7
1907	151	565	508	66	127	18	4	2	51	38	17	46	0	.250	.309	.313	.622	93.5	94.6	.309	1.9
1908	126	509	416	83	125	19	6	0	37	66	14	36	0	.300	.402	.375	.777	156.5	148.5	.386	5.4
1909	127	552	463	88	122	19	6	1	24	73	18	28	0	.263	.369	.337	.705	125.6	120.2	.356	3.9
1910	125	556	433	87	114	11	7	0	28	108	18	28	0	.263	.413	.321	.734	130.2	118.3	.378	4.2
1911	46	195	155	29	35	4	3	0	7	34	10	6	0	.226	.372	.290	.662	98.6	87.9	.340	0.7
1912	143	568	478	73	163	23	11	1	63	74	18	16	0	.341	.431	.441	.873	142.9	140.6	.418	5.2
1913	136	523	446	81	127	20	5	3	49	50	14	11	0	.285	.361	.372	.733	111.4	109.3	.352	2.6
1914	139	611	491	81	137	20	3	1	40	87	26	12	0	.279	.390	.338	.728	125.9	118.4	.363	4.2
1915	83	349	278	38	73	4	1	1	22	50	16	7	8	.263	.375	.295	.670	116.3	106.7	.338	2.0
1916	71	294	241	33	52	4	1	0	15	40	19	5	0	.216	.330	.241	.570	88.6	79.7	.292	0.7
1917	80	317	266	25	57	5	1	1	12	43	21	9	0	.214	.324	.252	.576	85.1	77.3	.293	0.7
1922	1	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	.000	.400	.000	.400	66.5	11.9	.304	0.0
1929	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0

Career totals

1,784

429th-most career G

7,210

416th-most career PA

6,137

478th-most career AB

919

457th-most career R

1,659

216

398th-most career 3B

RBI

538

778

294th-most career BB

293

324

142nd-most career SB

.2703

OBP

.3561

SLG

.3342

OPS

.6903

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
1908-09-03	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	1	3	1	2	0	4	8
1906-08-15	LAD @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	0	2	7
1915-06-29	ATL @ SF Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	2	7
1910-09-07	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	0	1	7
1908-06-02	PIT @ CHC Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	0	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1902-04-17	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1902-04-18	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1902-04-19	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1902-04-20	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1902-04-21	STL @ CHC 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1946 (Old Timers)

1× Most Valuable Player

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.