Johnny Lipon

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornNovember 10, 1922 · Martins Ferry, OH, USA

MLB debutAugust 16, 1942

Final gameApril 25, 1954

Seasons9 (1942–1954)

Detroit Tigers 1942; Detroit Tigers 1946; Detroit Tigers 1948–1951; Boston Red Sox 1952; Detroit Tigers 1952; Boston Red Sox 1953; St. Louis Browns 1953; Cincinnati Redlegs 1954

Percentile snapshot

1951 season — qualified batters

129

549

27.2

487

33.3

7.4

129

24.7

8.6

RBI

3.7

33.3

82.7

56.8

23.5

.265

24.7

OBP

.335

23.5

SLG

.300

1.2

OPS

.634

3.7

wRC+

73.0

7.4

OPS+

72.2

4.9

wOBA

.308

8.6

sWAR

0.6

11.1

of 82 qualified 1951 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

80.0

10.1

OPS+

78.1

7.7

sWAR

5.8

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
1942	34	140	131	5	25	2	0	0	9	7	7	1	3	.191	.232	.206	.438	10.3	20.2	.215	-0.9
1946	14	25	20	4	6	0	0	0	1	5	3	0	0	.300	.440	.300	.740	122.1	105.1	.375	0.2
1948	121	541	458	65	133	18	8	5	52	68	22	4	4	.290	.384	.397	.782	109.3	106.8	.375	2.9
1949	127	525	439	57	110	14	6	3	59	75	24	2	4	.251	.362	.330	.693	88.7	85.0	.343	1.6
1950	147	701	601	104	176	27	6	2	63	81	26	9	6	.293	.378	.368	.745	92.7	90.1	.356	2.3
1951	129	549	487	56	129	15	1	0	38	49	27	7	6	.265	.335	.300	.634	73.0	72.2	.308	0.6
1952	118	432	370	42	78	12	3	0	30	48	26	4	2	.211	.301	.259	.561	52.1	53.4	.278	-0.5
1953	67	175	154	18	33	7	0	0	14	14	17	1	0	.214	.280	.260	.540	38.5	43.4	.261	-0.4
1954	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-139.6	-100.0	.000	0.0

Career totals

758

3,089

2,661

351

690

RBI

266

347

152

.2593

OBP

.3463

SLG

.3243

OPS

.6706

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
1948-06-13	DET @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	1	1	7
1951-09-18	DET @ ATH Gameday	5	1	5	1	0	2	0	6
1950-07-30	ATH @ DET Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	0	1	6
1950-05-22	MIN @ DET Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	1	0	5
1948-08-29	DET @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	0	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1942-04-14	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-15	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-16	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-17	DET @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-18	DET @ BAL 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.