MLB / Players

Johnny Marcum

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 197 lb

BornSeptember 9, 1909 · Campbellsburg, KY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 7, 1933

Final gameSeptember 30, 1939

Seasons7 (1933–1939)

Philadelphia Athletics 1933–1935; Boston Red Sox 1936–1938; Chicago White Sox 1939; St. Louis Browns 1939

Percentile snapshot

1937 season — qualified pitchers

67.7

46.9

65.6

35.4

84.4

41.7

SHO

36.5

230

28.1

58.3

36.5

14.6

183.7

ERA

4.85

29.2

WHIP

1.508

34.4

K/9

2.89

14.6

FIP

4.49

42.7

FIP-

95.4

61.5

ERA+

96.9

34.4

sWAR

2.1

of 97 qualified 1937 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

100.4

sWAR

13.6

90.1

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1933	5	14	12	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	.167	.286	.167	.452	31.1	21.8	.241	1.3
1934	58	117	112	10	30	4	0	1	13	3	5	1	.268	.287	.330	.617	56.0	60.4	.286	2.6
1935	64	132	119	13	37	2	1	2	17	9	5	0	.311	.359	.395	.754	93.4	93.9	.351	4.3
1936	48	94	88	6	18	3	0	2	7	3	5	0	.205	.231	.307	.538	22.3	29.4	.244	2.5
1937	51	95	86	12	23	8	0	0	13	7	4	0	.267	.323	.360	.683	68.4	70.3	.316	2.1
1938	19	43	37	3	5	0	0	0	3	6	9	0	.135	.256	.135	.391	5.0	-0.9	.213	1.6
1939	54	85	79	10	26	1	0	0	17	6	3	0	.329	.376	.342	.718	86.7	83.6	.340	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1933	5	5	3	2	0	4	2	28	8	20	14	0	37.0	1.95	1.297	3.41	3.90	90.3	221.8	1.3
1934	37	31	14	11	0	17	2	257	116	88	92	13	232.0	4.50	1.487	3.57	4.28	97.1	98.0	2.6
1935	39	27	17	12	3	19	2	256	110	83	99	9	242.7	4.08	1.397	3.67	3.81	84.7	110.2	4.3
1936	31	23	8	13	1	9	1	194	93	52	57	14	174.0	4.81	1.414	2.95	4.78	91.7	108.3	2.5
1937	37	23	13	11	3	9	1	230	99	47	59	17	183.7	4.85	1.508	2.89	4.49	95.4	96.9	2.1
1938	15	11	5	6	0	7	0	113	42	25	25	11	92.3	4.09	1.495	2.44	4.94	99.9	120.7	1.6
1939	31	12	5	8	0	4	0	191	101	29	46	27	137.7	6.60	1.598	3.01	5.67	121.5	70.5	-0.8

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

299

580

533

141

RBI

.2645

OBP

.3111

SLG

.3302

OPS

.6413

Pitching

G (P)

195

132

SHO

1,099

SO (P)

392

BB allowed

344

ERA

4.658

WHIP

1.4673

K/9

3.21

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
1936-07-04	ATH @ BOS Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	1	6
1935-07-13	DET @ ATH Gameday	6	3	4	1	0	3	5
1934-07-15	ATH @ CWS Gameday	5	3	3	2	0	1	5
1935-06-27	BOS @ ATH Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	1	5
1937-07-02	ATH @ BOS Gameday	3	1	2	2	0	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1934-06-21	BAL @ ATH Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	4	8	1
1935-07-13	DET @ ATH Gameday	9.0	9	5	5	2	8	1
1934-06-17	CWS @ ATH Gameday	9.0	3	2	2	1	7	1
1934-08-13	ATH @ MIN Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	2	7	0
1935-09-08	BAL @ ATH Gameday	7.0	12	9	8	2	7	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.