MLB / Players

Johnny Markham

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb

BornOctober 1, 1908 · Shreveport, LA, USA

Seasons9 (1930–1945)

Kansas City Monarchs 1930; Monroe Monarchs 1932; Kansas City Monarchs 1937–1938; Birmingham Black Barons 1941–1945

Percentile snapshot

1942 season — qualified pitchers

18.5

1.9

4.6

88.9

78.7

15.7

SHO

39.8

95.4

100

16.7

94.4

60.0

ERA

2.25

92.6

WHIP

.917

100

K/9

4.95

77.8

FIP

3.00

85.2

FIP-

73.9

96.3

ERA+

180.2

94.4

sWAR

1.4

41.7

of 109 qualified 1942 pitchers (min 48 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.0

79.3

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1930	17	43	40	1	7	4	1	6	1	0	.175	.195	.325	.520	37.2	36.1	.231	1.1
1932	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-91.3	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1937	12	18	17	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	.176	.222	.176	.399	27.7	11.4	.196	0.6
1938	15	20	18	1	3	1	0	1	0	0	.167	.167	.222	.389	19.2	11.4	.179	0.7
1941	9	17	17	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.059	.059	.059	.118	-56.6	-65.1	.056	0.2
1942	14	24	21	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	.048	.091	.048	.139	-42.4	-58.1	.077	1.4
1943	8	22	21	2	5	1	0	1	0	0	.238	.238	.286	.524	57.9	60.5	.247	1.4
1944	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-99.1	-100.0	.000	0.0
1945	10	17	17	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	.118	.118	.118	.235	-20.7	-31.0	.111	-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
1930	17	12	3	7	0	7	1	112	47	30	39	6	96.7	4.38	1.469	3.63	4.83	105.9	104.1	1.1
1932	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	6	4	0	3.3	8.10	2.400	10.80	6.44	172.7	46.0	-0.2
1937	12	4	7	0	0	2	0	51	22	13	47	3	47.7	4.15	1.343	8.87	3.81	85.2	107.8	0.6
1938	14	3	3	4	1	2	1	38	16	12	38	2	41.0	3.51	1.220	8.34	3.64	85.5	121.4	0.7
1941	8	4	4	3	0	3	2	39	14	4	24	0	36.0	3.50	1.194	6.00	2.58	69.5	106.1	0.2
1942	13	5	2	2	2	4	1	47	15	8	33	0	60.0	2.25	.917	4.95	3.00	73.9	180.2	1.4
1943	8	7	5	1	0	5	0	42	12	11	16	1	49.0	2.20	1.082	2.94	3.84	102.0	170.7	1.4
1944	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	3	1	3	0	7.7	3.52	1.304	3.52	2.81	83.5	95.6	0.0
1945	7	4	2	2	1	2	0	43	21	12	14	1	34.7	5.45	1.587	3.63	4.47	105.5	77.8	-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

166

156

RBI

.1410

OBP

.1572

SLG

.1923

OPS

.3495

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

376

SO (P)

218

BB allowed

ERA

3.662

WHIP

1.2766

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	RBI	TB
1943-06-20	NYC @ BBB Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	3
1943-05-30	MEM @ BBB Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	2
1945-09-14	CAG @ BBB Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2
1930-07-11	CAG @ KCM Gameday	4	0	1	1	2	2
1930-06-13	BEG @ KCM Gameday	2	1	1	1	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1937-05-17	CAG @ KCM Gameday	9.0	5	3	2	4	15	0
1941-08-13	KCM @ BBB Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	3	9	0
1938-08-02	MEM @ KCM Gameday	6.0	7	1	1	1	9	0
1938-08-10	HSL @ KCM Gameday	5.2	2	3	1	3	9	1
1942-05-17	CAG @ BBB Gameday	9.0	11	6	4	0	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.