Johnny Groth

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 182 lb

BornJuly 23, 1926 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 5, 1946

Final gameJuly 28, 1960

Seasons15 (1946–1960)

Detroit Tigers 1946–1952; St. Louis Browns 1953; Chicago White Sox 1954–1955; Washington Senators 1955; Kansas City Athletics 1956; Detroit Tigers 1957; Kansas City Athletics 1957; Detroit Tigers 1958–1960

Percentile snapshot

1953 season — qualified batters

141

36.9

610

45.2

557

51.2

141

27.4

61.9

23.8

34.5

RBI

23.8

21.4

40.5

15.5

.253

10.7

OBP

.308

7.1

SLG

.370

15.5

OPS

.678

9.5

wRC+

77.6

8.3

OPS+

81.4

10.7

wOBA

.314

8.3

sWAR

0.6

13.1

of 85 qualified 1953 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

99.6

40.8

OPS+

99.3

40.2

sWAR

14.1

90.5

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
1946	4	9	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-144.3	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1947	2	6	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	.250	.500	.250	.750	145.2	110.7	.410	0.0
1948	6	18	17	3	8	3	0	1	5	1	1	0	0	.471	.500	.824	1.324	246.8	246.3	.590	0.4
1949	103	418	348	60	102	19	5	11	73	65	27	3	7	.293	.407	.471	.878	134.8	133.5	.415	3.3
1950	157	670	566	95	173	30	8	12	85	95	27	1	5	.306	.407	.451	.858	120.3	117.8	.401	4.1
1951	118	465	428	41	128	29	1	3	49	31	32	1	1	.299	.349	.393	.742	98.5	100.0	.347	1.6
1952	141	580	524	56	149	22	2	4	51	51	39	2	10	.284	.348	.357	.705	93.8	93.8	.335	1.7
1953	141	610	557	65	141	27	4	10	57	42	53	5	6	.253	.308	.370	.678	77.6	81.4	.314	0.6
1954	125	477	422	41	116	20	0	7	60	42	37	3	9	.275	.341	.372	.713	95.8	95.9	.335	1.5
1955	95	293	260	35	66	11	5	4	28	24	31	3	0	.254	.313	.381	.693	83.7	86.4	.321	0.4
1956	95	280	244	22	63	13	3	5	37	30	31	1	2	.258	.335	.398	.732	88.5	90.7	.336	0.5
1957	93	180	162	21	45	10	0	0	18	13	13	0	0	.278	.333	.340	.673	84.9	83.1	.316	0.0
1958	88	161	146	24	41	5	2	2	11	13	19	0	1	.281	.340	.384	.723	95.9	93.5	.333	0.2
1959	55	112	102	12	24	7	1	1	10	7	14	0	0	.235	.284	.353	.637	68.6	70.6	.292	-0.2
1960	25	23	19	3	7	1	0	0	2	3	1	0	1	.368	.455	.421	.876	148.7	137.0	.412	0.2

Career totals

1,248

4,302

3,808

480

1,064

197

RBI

486

419

329

.2794

OBP

.3515

SLG

.3947

OPS

.7462

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
1955-05-28	CWS @ DET Gameday	6	3	4	2	0	2	3	0	12
1949-07-18	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	6	1	8
1956-06-11	ATH @ MIN Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	3	0	8
1949-04-19	CWS @ DET Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	2	0	8
1950-06-10	DET @ BOS Gameday	6	3	5	0	1	0	4	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1946-08-06	DET @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-08-07	DET @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-08-09	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-08-11	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-08-11	DET @ CWS 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.