MLB / Players

Johnny Lanning

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornSeptember 6, 1910 · Asheville, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1936

Final gameMay 12, 1947

Seasons11 (1936–1947)

Boston Bees 1936–1939; Pittsburgh Pirates 1940–1943; Pittsburgh Pirates 1945–1946; Boston Braves 1947

Percentile snapshot

1941 season — qualified pitchers

69.1

52.6

59.8

53.6

42.3

SHO

175

50.5

58.8

62.9

21.6

63.9

175.7

54.6

ERA

3.13

77.3

WHIP

1.264

70.1

K/9

2.10

FIP

3.35

82.5

FIP-

92.0

ERA+

116.3

61.9

sWAR

2.6

61.9

of 98 qualified 1941 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

101.0

41.9

sWAR

10.3

87.3

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1936	28	55	52	1	7	0	1	2	1	11	.135	.151	.192	.343	-14.8	-5.6	.158	1.6
1937	32	38	33	2	4	0	0	0	3	12	.121	.194	.121	.316	-6.4	-8.5	.165	0.6
1938	32	50	48	6	9	0	0	3	0	10	.188	.188	.188	.375	-1.3	8.8	.173	0.8
1939	37	44	42	1	6	2	0	4	0	7	.143	.143	.190	.333	-24.0	-8.4	.150	1.5
1940	38	40	35	2	7	2	0	3	2	8	.200	.243	.257	.500	32.2	38.2	.236	0.9
1941	34	66	56	5	6	3	0	4	3	8	.107	.167	.161	.327	-16.7	-7.5	.164	2.6
1942	34	32	29	0	4	3	0	1	1	7	.138	.167	.241	.408	0.3	17.4	.192	1.2
1943	12	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-28.0	-5.1	.158	0.6
1945	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.7
1946	27	25	21	0	3	1	0	0	1	4	.143	.182	.190	.372	-15.0	4.0	.181	1.4
1947	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-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
1936	28	20	7	11	0	3	1	154	62	55	33	9	153.0	3.65	1.366	1.94	4.45	117.1	104.3	1.6
1937	32	11	5	7	2	4	1	107	51	40	37	10	116.7	3.93	1.260	2.85	4.49	125.7	90.7	0.6
1938	32	18	8	7	0	4	1	146	57	52	39	5	138.0	3.72	1.435	2.54	3.79	110.7	92.2	0.8
1939	37	6	5	6	4	3	0	120	49	53	45	6	129.0	3.42	1.341	3.14	4.00	108.4	107.8	1.5
1940	38	7	8	4	2	2	0	119	52	39	42	8	115.7	4.05	1.366	3.27	3.93	102.4	94.9	0.9
1941	34	23	11	11	1	9	0	175	61	47	41	6	175.7	3.13	1.264	2.10	3.35	92.0	116.3	2.6
1942	34	8	6	8	1	2	1	125	44	26	31	7	119.3	3.32	1.265	2.34	3.21	94.7	102.1	1.2
1943	12	2	4	1	2	0	0	23	7	9	11	0	27.0	2.33	1.185	3.67	2.66	76.4	149.0	0.6
1945	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	8	0	0	1	2.0	36.00	4.000	0.00	9.14	232.2	10.9	-0.7
1946	27	9	4	5	1	3	0	97	31	31	16	3	91.0	3.07	1.407	1.58	3.45	98.0	114.9	1.4
1947	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	6	0	0	3.7	9.82	2.727	0.00	7.48	190.0	40.1	-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

278

356

322

RBI

.1460

OBP

.1766

SLG

.1894

OPS

.3660

Pitching

G (P)

278

104

SHO

1,071

SO (P)

295

BB allowed

358

ERA

3.580

WHIP

1.3408

K/9

2.48

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	HR	RBI	TB
1936-05-25	ATL @ LAD Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4
1939-07-14	STL @ ATL Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	3
1938-08-15	ATL @ PHI Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	1	2
1938-04-30	ATL @ PHI Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	0	2
1940-08-04	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1941-06-29	PIT @ CHC Gameday	9.0	4	2	1	3	5	0
1938-06-17	CHC @ ATL Gameday	8.0	5	2	2	2	5	0
1937-08-29	STL @ ATL Gameday	7.1	10	3	3	3	5	1
1940-07-29	PIT @ LAD Gameday	6.2	9	4	4	1	5	0
1939-04-25	ATL @ LAD Gameday	5.1	4	2	2	4	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.