Johnny Hopp

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 170 lb

BornJuly 18, 1916 · Hastings, NE, USA

MLB debutSeptember 18, 1939

Final gameSeptember 27, 1952

Seasons14 (1939–1952)

St. Louis Cardinals 1939–1945; Boston Braves 1946–1947; Pittsburgh Pirates 1948; Brooklyn Dodgers 1949; Pittsburgh Pirates 1949; New York Yankees 1950; Pittsburgh Pirates 1950; New York Yankees 1951; Detroit Tigers 1952; New York Yankees 1952

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified batters

134

39.8

502

23.3

430

21.4

60.2

124

31.1

36.9

6.8

16.5

RBI

12.6

54.4

61.2

91.3

37.9

.288

61.2

OBP

.376

SLG

.358

16.5

OPS

.734

36.9

wRC+

102.9

41.7

OPS+

99.0

35.9

wOBA

.349

39.8

sWAR

2.0

43.7

of 104 qualified 1947 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

116.3

73.7

OPS+

114.9

71.7

sWAR

20.5

93.8

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
1939	6	5	4	1	2	1	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	.500	.600	.750	1.350	261.7	252.1	.597	0.1
1940	80	163	152	24	41	7	4	1	14	9	21	3	0	.270	.315	.388	.703	86.7	89.4	.322	0.1
1941	134	509	445	83	135	25	11	4	50	50	63	15	0	.303	.378	.436	.813	126.3	124.3	.381	2.6
1942	95	354	314	41	81	16	7	3	37	36	40	14	0	.258	.334	.382	.716	106.1	105.7	.342	0.6
1943	91	272	241	33	54	10	2	2	25	24	22	8	0	.224	.297	.307	.604	72.1	74.3	.295	-0.5
1944	139	591	527	106	177	35	9	11	72	58	47	15	0	.336	.404	.499	.903	157.1	155.4	.416	6.2
1945	124	505	446	67	129	22	8	3	44	49	24	14	0	.289	.363	.395	.758	112.5	111.4	.361	1.9
1946	129	492	445	71	148	23	8	3	48	34	34	21	0	.333	.386	.440	.827	136.3	133.5	.390	3.2
1947	134	502	430	74	124	20	2	2	32	58	30	13	0	.288	.376	.358	.734	102.9	99.0	.349	2.0
1948	120	435	392	64	109	15	12	1	31	40	25	5	0	.278	.345	.385	.730	94.6	94.6	.339	1.0
1949	113	425	385	55	118	14	5	5	39	37	32	9	0	.306	.367	.408	.775	105.7	104.8	.357	0.9
1950	125	397	345	60	117	26	6	9	55	51	18	7	1	.339	.426	.528	.953	147.4	143.7	.427	2.9
1951	46	73	63	10	13	1	0	2	4	9	11	2	0	.206	.306	.317	.623	73.7	73.0	.301	-0.2
1952	57	81	71	9	14	1	0	0	5	8	10	2	0	.197	.288	.211	.499	40.7	40.5	.253	-0.5

Career totals

1,393

4,804

4,260

698

1,262

216

345th-most career 3B

RBI

458

464

378

128

.2962

287th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3679

325th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4141

OPS

.7820

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
1950-05-14	PIT @ CHC Gameday	6	3	6	0	0	2	3	0	12
1946-05-05	ATL @ STL Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
1941-08-09	PIT @ STL Gameday	6	2	4	0	2	0	1	0	8
1941-06-24	ATL @ STL Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	1	4	1	8
1950-08-19	PIT @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	1	2	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1939-04-18	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-21	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-22	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-23	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-25	CIN @ STL 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

1× All-Star

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