MLB / Players

Johnny Gorsica

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornMarch 29, 1915 · Bayonne, NJ, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1940

Final gameSeptember 17, 1947

Seasons7 (1940–1947)

Detroit Tigers 1940–1944; Detroit Tigers 1946–1947

Percentile snapshot

1944 season — qualified pitchers

58.9

29.5

18.9

17.9

96.8

31.6

SHO

29.5

192

48.4

36.8

74.7

28.4

58.9

162.0

31.6

ERA

4.11

17.9

WHIP

1.383

29.5

K/9

2.61

22.1

FIP

3.04

78.9

FIP-

85.5

ERA+

86.3

12.6

sWAR

0.4

16.8

of 96 qualified 1944 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.5

82.1

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1940	29	66	62	6	12	0	2	1	7	3	15	.194	.231	.306	.537	24.4	33.6	.243	2.3
1941	33	66	57	5	17	1	0	0	3	6	7	.298	.365	.316	.681	76.7	74.9	.328	2.1
1942	31	11	10	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	.100	.100	.300	.400	-17.6	7.0	.174	0.0
1943	36	26	23	2	4	0	1	0	0	1	6	.174	.208	.261	.469	18.6	33.6	.224	1.1
1944	40	54	52	7	7	2	1	0	4	2	6	.135	.167	.212	.378	-10.5	5.9	.180	0.4
1946	14	3	3	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	.667	.667	1.000	1.667	390.3	351.8	.752	0.1
1947	31	11	10	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	7	.200	.273	.300	.573	52.4	58.0	.276	0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1940	29	20	7	7	0	5	2	170	77	57	68	10	160.0	4.33	1.419	3.83	4.03	86.3	107.8	2.3
1941	33	21	9	11	2	8	1	193	85	55	59	14	171.0	4.47	1.450	3.11	4.14	92.6	99.8	2.1
1942	28	0	3	2	4	0	0	63	28	26	19	2	53.0	4.75	1.679	3.23	3.97	102.4	81.5	0.0
1943	35	4	4	5	5	1	0	88	36	40	45	3	96.3	3.36	1.329	4.20	3.13	90.3	103.0	1.1
1944	34	19	6	14	4	8	1	192	74	32	47	5	162.0	4.11	1.383	2.61	3.04	85.5	86.3	0.4
1946	14	0	0	0	1	0	0	28	12	11	14	5	23.7	4.56	1.648	5.32	5.41	148.2	80.0	0.1
1947	31	0	2	0	1	0	0	44	24	26	20	5	57.7	3.75	1.214	3.12	4.31	114.7	100.4	0.6

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

214

237

217

RBI

.2074

OBP

.2522

SLG

.2903

OPS

.5425

Pitching

G (P)

204

SHO

724

SO (P)

272

BB allowed

247

ERA

4.179

WHIP

1.4164

K/9

3.38

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
1941-09-01	BAL @ DET Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	0	2	0	5
1941-08-07	DET @ CLE Gameday	4	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	4
1943-07-06	MIN @ DET Gameday	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	4
1940-08-03	BOS @ DET Gameday	3	1	1	0	0	1	3	1	4
1940-08-07	DET @ BAL Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1944-05-19	DET @ MIN Gameday	9.0	7	1	0	0	8
1940-07-06	BAL @ DET Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	2	6
1943-06-10	CWS @ DET Gameday	6.2	8	2	2	2	6
1940-06-15	MIN @ DET Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	3	5
1940-06-30	DET @ BAL Gameday	7.0	5	1	1	3	5

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.