Johnny Gooch
Pittsburgh Pirates 1921–1927; Brooklyn Robins 1928; Pittsburgh Pirates 1928; Brooklyn Robins 1929; Cincinnati Reds 1929–1930; Boston Red Sox 1933
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 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 | 13 | 42 | 38 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .237 | .293 | .237 | .530 | 41.1 | 41.3 | .257 | -0.1 |
| 1922 | 105 | 401 | 353 | 45 | 116 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 42 | 39 | 15 | 1 | 1 | .329 | .403 | .397 | .800 | 111.4 | 107.4 | .377 | 2.7 |
| 1923 | 66 | 220 | 202 | 16 | 56 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 1 | .277 | .336 | .361 | .698 | 84.3 | 83.8 | .327 | 0.8 |
| 1924 | 70 | 242 | 224 | 26 | 65 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 25 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 3 | .290 | .343 | .362 | .705 | 90.3 | 89.7 | .329 | 1.1 |
| 1925 | 79 | 237 | 215 | 24 | 64 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 30 | 20 | 16 | 1 | 0 | .298 | .357 | .372 | .730 | 84.1 | 82.9 | .339 | 0.9 |
| 1926 | 86 | 247 | 218 | 19 | 59 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 42 | 20 | 14 | 1 | 0 | .271 | .340 | .362 | .703 | 87.0 | 86.2 | .332 | 1.1 |
| 1927 | 101 | 319 | 291 | 22 | 75 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 48 | 19 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .258 | .305 | .351 | .656 | 68.1 | 70.9 | .306 | 0.5 |
| 1928 | 73 | 197 | 181 | 16 | 51 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 10 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .282 | .319 | .331 | .651 | 67.7 | 70.7 | .305 | 0.4 |
| 1929 | 93 | 314 | 288 | 22 | 86 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 34 | 24 | 10 | 4 | 0 | .299 | .355 | .378 | .733 | 87.4 | 86.4 | .339 | 1.2 |
| 1930 | 82 | 306 | 276 | 29 | 67 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 30 | 27 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .243 | .315 | .322 | .637 | 61.0 | 58.0 | .295 | 0.0 |
| 1933 | 37 | 88 | 77 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .284 | .221 | .505 | 39.0 | 34.1 | .255 | -0.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922-07-07 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1923-05-07 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1928-09-13 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1924-07-08 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1926-06-09 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921-04-13 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1921-04-14 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1921-04-15 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1921-04-16 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1921-04-18 | PIT @ 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.