MLB / Players

Johnny Pesky

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 168 lb

BornFebruary 27, 1919 · Portland, OR, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1942

Final gameSeptember 24, 1954

Seasons10 (1942–1954)

Boston Red Sox 1942; Boston Red Sox 1946–1952; Detroit Tigers 1952–1954; Washington Senators 1954

Percentile snapshot

1951 season — qualified batters

131

19.8

573

39.5

480

25.9

77.8

150

46.9

24.7

59.3

13.6

RBI

4.9

86.4

97.5

18.5

71.6

.313

88.9

OBP

.417

90.1

SLG

.398

33.3

OPS

.815

66.7

wRC+

118.5

61.7

OPS+

112.0

50.6

wOBA

.390

sWAR

3.7

67.9

of 82 qualified 1951 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

111.7

65.1

OPS+

107.2

56.9

sWAR

30.1

96.5

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
1942	147	686	620	105	205	29	9	2	51	42	36	12	7	.331	.375	.416	.791	119.8	119.6	.373	4.6
1946	153	703	621	115	208	43	4	2	55	65	29	9	8	.335	.401	.427	.827	131.2	125.8	.389	5.7
1947	155	719	638	106	207	27	8	0	39	72	22	12	9	.324	.393	.392	.785	116.9	113.0	.375	4.6
1948	143	677	565	124	159	26	6	3	55	99	32	3	5	.281	.394	.365	.759	104.8	99.3	.371	2.8
1949	148	713	604	111	185	27	7	2	69	100	19	8	4	.306	.408	.384	.792	109.5	104.4	.386	3.4
1950	127	605	490	112	153	22	6	1	49	104	31	2	1	.312	.437	.388	.825	112.9	104.3	.400	3.2
1951	131	573	480	93	150	20	6	3	41	84	15	2	2	.313	.417	.398	.815	118.5	112.0	.390	3.7
1952	94	307	244	36	55	6	0	1	11	56	16	1	5	.225	.372	.262	.634	86.4	75.6	.326	0.8
1953	103	342	308	43	90	22	1	2	24	27	10	3	7	.292	.353	.390	.743	99.3	99.3	.346	1.2
1954	69	191	175	22	43	4	3	1	10	13	8	1	1	.246	.296	.320	.616	68.4	72.8	.290	0.0

Career totals

1,270

5,516

4,745

867

1,455

226

RBI

404

662

433rd-most career BB

218

.3066

149th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3943

91st-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3861

OPS

.7804

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
1946-08-08	ATH @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	2	0	8
1950-06-08	BAL @ BOS Gameday	7	3	5	2	0	0	2	0	7
1951-08-22	BOS @ BAL Gameday	6	0	4	3	0	0	0	1	7
1947-06-22	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	1	3	2	1	0	2	0	7
1942-06-13	DET @ BOS Gameday	5	2	5	1	0	0	1	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1942-04-14	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-15	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-16	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-17	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-18	BOS @ NYY 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.

Honors

1× 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.