Johnny James
New York Yankees 1958; New York Yankees 1960; Los Angeles Angels 1961; New York Yankees 1961
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.8 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 1960 | 28 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -122.8 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1961 | 44 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .071 | .000 | .071 | -95.5 | -79.5 | .053 | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3.0 | 0.00 | 2.000 | 3.00 | 5.78 | 160.7 | — | 0.1 |
| 1960 | 28 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 21 | 26 | 29 | 3 | 43.3 | 4.36 | 1.477 | 6.02 | 3.97 | 108.7 | 83.8 | 0.0 |
| 1961 | 37 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 42 | 54 | 43 | 12 | 72.7 | 5.20 | 1.665 | 5.33 | 5.78 | 136.5 | 81.2 | -0.2 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958-09-06 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1960-04-24 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1960-05-01 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1960-05-08 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1960-05-14 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-06-11 | LAA @ NYY Gameday | 5.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 1961-05-24 | CLE @ LAA Gameday | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1961-08-30 | BAL @ LAA Gameday | 1.2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| 1961-08-28 | BAL @ LAA Gameday | 3.1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 1960-07-24 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 3.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 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.