MLB / Players

Johnny Humphries

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornJune 23, 1915 · Clifton Forge, VA, USA

MLB debutMay 8, 1938

Final gameJuly 28, 1946

Seasons9 (1938–1946)

Cleveland Indians 1938–1940; Chicago White Sox 1941–1945; Philadelphia Phillies 1946

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified pitchers

41.7

22.6

9.5

38.1

47.6

SHO

26.2

172

54.8

38.1

59.5

15.5

14.3

153.0

32.1

ERA

4.24

13.1

WHIP

1.438

22.6

K/9

1.94

2.4

FIP

3.94

20.2

FIP-

119.8

2.4

ERA+

77.7

9.5

sWAR

-0.6

2.4

of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 150 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

95.9

21.8

sWAR

8.7

85.3

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1938	45	33	29	2	3	2	0	1	1	10	0	0	.103	.161	.172	.334	-19.3	-15.1	.162	0.3
1939	15	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	.000	.125	.000	.125	-54.6	-64.5	.095	-0.9
1940	19	8	6	1	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	.000	.143	.000	.143	-49.6	-58.4	.107	-1.2
1941	14	24	23	1	2	2	0	3	0	12	0	0	.087	.087	.174	.261	-50.4	-31.6	.113	2.4
1942	28	87	80	9	18	6	1	5	4	33	0	0	.225	.262	.325	.587	60.1	67.0	.276	5.1
1943	28	72	69	6	20	6	0	5	3	25	1	0	.290	.319	.377	.696	99.4	103.7	.329	2.4
1944	30	59	53	5	10	2	0	2	3	16	0	1	.189	.232	.226	.459	23.8	31.9	.224	1.1
1945	22	59	54	1	8	0	0	2	2	19	0	0	.148	.179	.148	.327	-19.2	-3.8	.163	-0.6
1946	10	8	8	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	27.7	42.5	.236	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1938	45	6	9	8	6	1	0	105	60	63	56	6	103.3	5.23	1.626	4.88	4.64	99.8	89.0	0.3
1939	15	1	2	4	2	0	0	30	26	32	12	0	28.3	8.26	2.188	3.81	5.78	132.1	53.0	-0.9
1940	19	1	0	2	1	1	0	35	31	29	17	5	33.7	8.29	1.901	4.54	6.61	159.1	50.1	-1.2
1941	14	6	4	2	1	4	4	63	15	22	25	2	73.3	1.84	1.159	3.07	3.37	83.4	219.8	2.4
1942	28	28	12	12	0	17	2	227	68	59	71	9	228.3	2.68	1.253	2.80	3.31	93.3	132.4	5.1
1943	28	27	11	11	0	8	2	198	69	54	51	7	188.3	3.30	1.338	2.44	3.25	98.8	99.6	2.4
1944	30	20	8	10	1	8	0	170	69	57	42	9	169.0	3.67	1.343	2.24	3.83	112.5	92.6	1.1
1945	22	21	6	14	1	10	1	172	72	48	33	11	153.0	4.24	1.438	1.94	3.94	119.8	77.7	-0.6
1946	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	24	11	9	10	1	24.7	4.01	1.338	3.65	3.25	96.0	84.4	0.1

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

211

358

329

RBI

126

.1915

OBP

.2290

SLG

.2523

OPS

.4813

Pitching

G (P)

211

111

SHO

1,002

SO (P)

317

BB allowed

373

ERA

3.781

WHIP

1.3942

K/9

2.85

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	RBI	BB	TB
1943-06-09	CWS @ DET Gameday	3	0	3	0	0	0	1	3
1942-08-20	BAL @ CWS Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	0	0	3
1943-08-18	MIN @ CWS Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	0	3
1942-06-10	CWS @ ATH Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	0	3
1942-07-17	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	0	2	0	0	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1942-08-20	BAL @ CWS Gameday	9.0	7	5	2	4	7	1
1942-04-15	BAL @ CWS Gameday	8.0	5	4	4	1	6	1
1942-08-25	CWS @ NYY Gameday	8.0	7	5	3	2	6	1
1942-04-21	DET @ CWS Gameday	9.0	10	4	4	3	5	0
1943-08-18	MIN @ CWS Gameday	8.1	13	4	3	1	5	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.