Johnny Lindell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 217 lb

BornAugust 30, 1916 · Greeley, CO, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1941

Final gameMay 9, 1954

Seasons12 (1941–1954)

New York Yankees 1941–1950; St. Louis Cardinals 1950; Philadelphia Phillies 1953; Pittsburgh Pirates 1953; Philadelphia Phillies 1954

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified batters

127

26.2

513

28.2

476

39.8

131

37.9

26.2

63.1

RBI

55.3

24.3

8.7

6.8

30.1

.275

39.8

OBP

.322

17.5

SLG

.412

51.5

OPS

.734

36.9

wRC+

101.6

37.9

OPS+

105.8

45.6

wOBA

.341

sWAR

1.2

29.1

of 104 qualified 1947 batters (min 480 PA)

1953 season — qualified pitchers

34.5

44.8

1.7

5.2

SHO

24.1

195

51.7

103

10.3

139

118

77.6

199.0

60.3

ERA

4.66

12.1

WHIP

1.678

K/9

5.34

87.9

FIP

4.73

1.7

FIP-

108.3

13.8

ERA+

93.7

22.4

sWAR

2.5

53.4

of 59 qualified 1953 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

113.6

68.9

OPS+

114.7

71.3

sWAR

15.6

91.4

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
1941	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.9	-100.0	.000	0.0
1942	27	24	24	1	6	1	0	0	4	0	5	0	0	.250	.250	.292	.542	45.1	55.2	.252	0.5
1943	122	500	441	53	108	17	12	4	51	51	55	2	5	.245	.329	.365	.694	104.4	104.2	.335	1.6
1944	149	646	594	91	178	33	16	18	103	44	56	5	4	.300	.351	.500	.851	137.9	139.3	.392	5.3
1945	41	181	159	26	45	6	3	1	20	17	10	2	1	.283	.363	.377	.740	114.7	111.7	.359	1.0
1946	102	369	332	41	86	10	5	10	40	32	47	4	1	.259	.328	.410	.738	103.7	105.3	.343	1.1
1947	127	513	476	66	131	18	7	11	67	32	70	1	2	.275	.322	.412	.734	101.6	105.8	.341	1.2
1948	88	345	309	58	98	17	2	13	55	35	50	0	0	.317	.387	.511	.898	138.1	140.9	.414	2.4
1949	78	246	211	33	51	10	0	6	27	35	27	3	0	.242	.350	.374	.724	93.7	93.3	.350	0.3
1950	43	157	134	18	25	5	2	5	18	19	26	0	0	.187	.292	.366	.658	67.8	69.3	.303	-0.3
1953	69	133	109	14	33	7	1	4	17	22	17	0	0	.303	.429	.495	.924	143.3	138.1	.414	2.5
1954	7	7	5	0	1	0	0	0	2	2	3	0	0	.200	.429	.200	.629	98.6	72.6	.341	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1942	23	2	2	1	1	0	0	52	22	22	28	3	52.7	3.76	1.405	4.78	3.54	100.8	93.3	0.5
1953	32	26	6	17	0	15	1	195	103	139	118	17	199.0	4.66	1.678	5.34	4.73	108.3	93.7	2.5

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

854

3,122

2,795

401

762

124

RBI

404

289

366

.2726

OBP

.3442

SLG

.4286

OPS

.7728

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

252

SO (P)

146

BB allowed

161

ERA

4.470

WHIP

1.6212

K/9

5.22

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	TB
1944-08-17	CLE @ NYY Gameday	5	2	5	4	0	0	2	9
1944-07-24	NYY @ CWS Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	4	9
1947-06-14	BAL @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	1	3	9
1944-09-27	NYY @ CWS Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	3	8
1947-06-10	NYY @ CWS Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	1	2	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1953-09-14	PHI @ STL Gameday	9.0	5	5	2	8	11	0
1953-05-19	PIT @ STL Gameday	8.0	5	2	0	4	8	0
1953-08-17	PIT @ LAD Gameday	10.0	7	5	5	5	7	2
1953-07-25	CHC @ PIT Gameday	9.0	10	5	5	4	6	1
1953-08-12	PHI @ PIT Gameday	9.0	10	8	5	5	6	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.