MLB / Players

Johnny Murphy

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb

BornJuly 14, 1908 · New York, NY, USA

MLB debutMay 19, 1932

Final gameSeptember 16, 1947

Seasons13 (1932–1947)

New York Yankees 1932; New York Yankees 1934–1943; New York Yankees 1946; Boston Red Sox 1947

Percentile snapshot

1934 season — qualified pitchers

73.5

42.2

66.7

41.2

89.2

46.1

SHO

193

55.9

58.8

25.5

54.9

39.2

207.7

64.7

ERA

3.12

84.3

WHIP

1.295

75.5

K/9

3.03

28.4

FIP

4.27

46.1

FIP-

102.3

37.3

ERA+

133.7

82.4

sWAR

4.0

80.4

of 103 qualified 1934 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

119.4

88.7

sWAR

17.7

92.5

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1932	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	439.8	420.9	.920	-0.3
1934	40	81	71	7	7	3	2	5	30	0	.099	.158	.141	.299	-19.8	-19.5	.151	4.0
1935	40	43	32	6	5	3	1	9	7	0	.156	.341	.250	.591	74.3	60.7	.307	1.4
1936	27	37	36	4	13	1	7	1	4	0	.361	.378	.389	.767	94.7	95.0	.356	2.3
1937	39	41	35	2	8	3	6	2	14	0	.229	.289	.314	.604	49.9	52.2	.282	1.7
1938	32	35	32	4	2	1	2	1	13	1	.063	.091	.094	.185	-61.2	-52.8	.090	1.0
1939	38	15	11	1	2	0	1	3	1	0	.182	.357	.182	.539	64.2	45.2	.294	0.7
1940	35	19	13	2	1	0	0	4	4	0	.077	.294	.077	.371	23.4	2.2	.229	1.1
1941	35	22	18	1	1	0	0	1	8	0	.056	.105	.056	.161	-65.2	-55.6	.089	2.3
1942	31	15	13	1	2	2	0	0	8	0	.154	.154	.308	.462	14.1	30.7	.206	0.7
1943	37	20	19	1	1	0	0	0	8	0	.053	.053	.053	.105	-99.3	-69.0	.050	1.1
1946	27	8	6	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	.000	.143	.000	.143	-63.2	-57.7	.108	0.4
1947	32	13	11	1	3	0	1	2	4	0	.273	.385	.273	.657	88.6	79.8	.334	1.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1932	2	0	0	0	0	0	7	6	3	2	0	3.3	16.20	3.000	5.40	4.63	103.8	27.5	-0.3
1934	40	20	14	10	4	10	193	72	76	70	11	207.7	3.12	1.295	3.03	4.27	102.3	133.7	4.0
1935	40	8	10	5	5	4	110	53	55	28	7	117.0	4.08	1.410	2.15	4.80	115.8	101.6	1.4
1936	27	5	9	3	5	2	90	33	36	34	5	88.0	3.38	1.432	3.48	4.72	98.9	141.3	2.3
1937	39	4	13	4	10	0	121	51	50	36	7	110.0	4.17	1.555	2.95	4.69	101.8	110.4	1.7
1938	32	2	8	2	11	1	90	43	41	43	5	91.3	4.24	1.434	4.24	4.27	92.3	109.1	1.0
1939	38	0	3	6	19	0	57	30	28	30	2	61.3	4.40	1.386	4.40	3.95	89.8	100.0	0.7
1940	35	1	8	4	9	0	58	26	15	23	5	63.3	3.69	1.153	3.27	3.93	90.7	117.4	1.1
1941	35	0	8	3	15	0	68	17	40	29	1	77.3	1.98	1.397	3.38	3.73	93.3	202.1	2.3
1942	31	0	4	10	11	0	66	22	23	24	2	58.0	3.41	1.534	3.72	3.46	98.7	102.8	0.7
1943	37	0	12	4	8	0	44	19	30	31	2	68.0	2.51	1.088	4.10	3.14	96.7	129.3	1.1
1946	27	0	4	2	7	0	40	17	19	19	4	45.0	3.40	1.311	3.80	4.03	115.2	102.8	0.4
1947	32	0	0	0	3	0	41	17	28	9	1	54.7	2.80	1.262	1.48	3.87	99.1	139.5	1.4

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

415

350

298

RBI

103

.1544

OBP

.2317

SLG

.1980

OPS

.4297

Pitching

G (P)

415

107

156th-most career SV

SHO

1,045

SO (P)

378

BB allowed

444

ERA

3.497

440th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3675

K/9

3.26

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
1936-08-28	DET @ NYY Gameday	5	3	5	0	5	5
1937-09-05	NYY @ MIN Gameday	2	0	2	1	1	3
1934-09-19	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	3
1934-06-06	NYY @ BOS Gameday	6	1	2	0	1	2
1936-09-13	NYY @ BAL Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1934-05-30	MIN @ NYY Gameday	7.0	6	4	3	5	6	0
1936-07-18	BAL @ NYY Gameday	4.2	7	7	7	3	6	1
1934-07-19	NYY @ CWS Gameday	9.0	9	3	3	5	5	0
1934-09-15	NYY @ CLE Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	3	5	0
1941-07-20	NYY @ DET Gameday	8.2	4	0	0	7	5	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

3× 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.