Johnny Niggeling

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornJuly 10, 1903 · Remsen, IA, USA

MLB debutApril 30, 1938

Final gameSeptember 1, 1946

Seasons9 (1938–1946)

Boston Bees 1938; Cincinnati Reds 1939; St. Louis Browns 1940–1943; Washington Senators 1943–1945; Boston Braves 1946; Washington Senators 1946

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified pitchers

36.9

59.5

26.2

21.4

33.3

SHO

57.1

161

61.9

54.8

76.2

40.5

176.7

46.4

ERA

3.16

59.5

WHIP

1.325

46.4

K/9

4.58

FIP

3.23

70.2

FIP-

102.8

ERA+

99.4

32.1

sWAR

1.3

28.6

of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

113.7

79.8

sWAR

17.4

92.4

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	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1938	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	—	1.000	—	—	386.0	—	.750	-0.1
1939	10	16	13	3	2	0	0	1	1	5	0	.154	.214	.154	.368	-4.7	1.2	.186	-0.5
1940	28	54	51	1	9	1	0	1	2	13	0	.176	.208	.196	.404	-5.4	3.6	.190	1.5
1941	24	67	60	1	10	0	0	6	3	16	0	.167	.206	.167	.373	-12.1	-2.2	.183	2.5
1942	28	81	72	3	10	0	0	2	3	15	0	.139	.184	.139	.323	-19.8	-9.2	.164	4.4
1943	26	75	67	3	8	1	0	1	3	13	1	.119	.157	.134	.291	-31.8	-15.1	.147	3.4
1944	24	77	69	2	9	0	1	3	4	17	0	.130	.178	.159	.338	-10.7	-1.1	.169	4.2
1945	26	61	59	2	7	1	0	2	2	12	0	.119	.148	.136	.283	-30.5	-14.7	.141	1.3
1946	16	34	29	1	4	1	0	1	1	9	0	.138	.167	.172	.339	-22.5	-2.4	.163	0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1938	2	0	1	0	0	0	4	2	1	1	0	2.0	9.00	2.500	4.50	3.24	94.4	38.1	-0.1
1939	10	5	2	1	2	1	51	26	13	20	2	40.3	5.80	1.587	4.46	3.58	92.9	66.4	-0.5
1940	28	20	7	11	10	0	148	76	69	82	9	153.7	4.45	1.412	4.80	4.06	89.8	101.6	1.5
1941	24	20	7	9	13	1	168	71	63	68	17	168.3	3.80	1.372	3.64	4.41	102.4	113.4	2.5
1942	28	27	15	11	16	3	173	61	93	107	10	206.3	2.66	1.289	4.67	3.66	98.2	139.8	4.4
1943	26	26	10	10	12	3	149	58	74	97	7	201.3	2.59	1.108	4.34	3.03	91.2	127.9	3.4
1944	24	24	10	8	14	2	164	53	88	121	5	206.0	2.32	1.223	5.29	3.03	92.1	142.0	4.2
1945	26	25	7	12	8	2	161	62	73	90	7	176.7	3.16	1.325	4.58	3.23	102.8	99.4	1.3
1946	16	14	5	7	6	0	93	38	42	34	3	96.0	3.56	1.406	3.19	3.44	101.6	95.3	0.7

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

184

466

420

RBI

100

.1405

OBP

.1814

SLG

.1548

OPS

.3362

Pitching

G (P)

184

161

SHO

1,251

SO (P)

620

BB allowed

516

ERA

3.217

267th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3009

K/9

4.46

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	TB
1941-07-20	BOS @ BAL Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	1	3
1940-06-15	NYY @ BAL Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	3
1945-04-26	BOS @ MIN Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	3
1944-06-12	NYY @ MIN Gameday	5	0	1	0	1	0	3
1940-08-25	BAL @ BOS Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1945-06-15	BOS @ MIN Gameday	13.0	9	4	4	2	12	1
1944-09-19	MIN @ BAL Gameday	10.0	4	0	0	3	11	0
1944-08-16	CWS @ MIN Gameday	8.0	4	3	3	6	11	0
1944-07-08	BAL @ MIN Gameday	9.0	10	5	2	4	10	0
1940-06-15	NYY @ BAL Gameday	8.0	9	5	4	4	10	1

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.