MLB / Players

Johnny Mostil

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 168 lb

BornJune 1, 1896 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutJune 20, 1918

Final gameMay 19, 1929

Seasons10 (1918–1929)

Chicago White Sox 1918; Chicago White Sox 1921–1929

Percentile snapshot

1928 season — qualified batters

133

68.8

589

79.4

503

73.9

67.8

136

65.8

57.8

78.4

RBI

60.8

90.5

4.5

.270

26.6

OBP

.360

50.3

SLG

.340

23.6

OPS

.699

31.2

wRC+

89.9

36.2

OPS+

85.9

34.7

wOBA

.335

37.2

sWAR

1.3

53.8

of 200 qualified 1928 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

114.3

70.4

OPS+

112.9

68.2

sWAR

21.9

94.3

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
1918	10	35	33	4	9	2	2	0	4	1	6	1	0	.273	.294	.455	.749	117.3	126.3	.355	0.2
1921	100	376	326	43	98	21	7	3	42	28	35	10	12	.301	.379	.436	.814	109.4	108.7	.379	1.8
1922	132	523	458	74	139	28	14	7	70	38	39	14	10	.303	.375	.472	.846	119.0	119.5	.388	3.1
1923	153	641	546	91	159	37	15	3	64	62	51	41	16	.291	.376	.430	.806	113.1	112.5	.380	3.3
1924	118	455	385	75	125	22	5	4	49	45	41	7	11	.325	.401	.439	.840	119.1	117.7	.397	2.6
1925	153	716	605	135	181	36	16	2	50	90	52	43	20	.299	.400	.421	.822	116.0	113.3	.390	4.0
1926	148	702	600	120	197	41	15	4	42	79	55	35	14	.328	.415	.467	.882	136.2	134.5	.413	5.7
1927	13	17	16	3	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	.125	.176	.125	.301	-21.8	-19.5	.155	-0.2
1928	133	589	503	69	136	19	8	0	51	66	54	23	21	.270	.360	.340	.699	89.9	85.9	.335	1.3
1929	12	42	35	4	8	3	0	0	3	6	2	1	1	.229	.341	.314	.656	75.6	70.4	.318	0.0

Career totals

972

4,096

3,507

618

1,054

209

264th-most career 3B

RBI

376

415

336

176

451st-most career SB

.3005

214th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3855

150th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4266

OPS

.8121

412th-highest career OPS

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	BB	TB
1926-06-02	CWS @ BAL Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	1	0	8
1924-07-09	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	1	8
1922-09-22	MIN @ CWS Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	4	0	7
1922-07-06	CWS @ ATH Gameday	5	1	5	1	0	0	2	0	6
1925-04-20	CWS @ BAL Gameday	4	3	4	0	1	0	2	2	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1918-04-16	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1918-04-18	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1918-04-22	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1918-04-26	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1918-04-28	CWS @ 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.