Johnny Podres

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornSeptember 30, 1932 · Witherbee, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1953

Final gameJune 21, 1969

Seasons15 (1953–1969)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1953–1955; Brooklyn Dodgers 1957; Los Angeles Dodgers 1958–1965; Detroit Tigers 1966; Los Angeles Dodgers 1966; Detroit Tigers 1967; San Diego Padres 1969

Percentile snapshot

1963 season — qualified pitchers

53.5

71.8

56.3

45.1

63.4

47.9

SHO

85.9

196

52.1

45.1

43.7

134

50.7

66.2

198.3

33.8

ERA

3.54

33.8

WHIP

1.311

18.3

K/9

6.08

63.4

FIP

3.21

60.6

FIP-

104.6

32.4

ERA+

86.6

9.9

sWAR

0.8

12.7

of 72 qualified 1963 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

105.1

57.8

sWAR

28.3

96.2

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1953	34	38	36	5	11	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	.306	.324	.306	.630	61.1	64.5	.288	1.5
1954	38	70	60	7	17	3	1	0	4	5	5	0	0	.283	.328	.367	.695	75.8	79.8	.313	1.8
1955	32	68	60	9	11	2	0	0	5	4	5	0	1	.183	.234	.217	.451	16.7	20.2	.214	1.8
1957	35	77	72	6	15	4	0	0	4	2	5	0	1	.208	.230	.264	.494	20.0	29.0	.224	5.3
1958	42	79	71	5	9	0	0	0	4	2	17	0	0	.127	.147	.127	.273	-49.0	-28.4	.129	2.8
1959	34	75	65	4	16	1	0	0	4	6	13	0	0	.246	.306	.262	.567	49.5	49.5	.269	2.5
1960	34	83	66	3	9	0	0	0	3	5	15	0	0	.136	.205	.136	.342	-11.1	-5.6	.174	4.4
1961	32	76	69	3	16	2	0	0	7	2	8	0	0	.232	.250	.261	.511	31.0	35.8	.233	2.6
1962	40	96	88	6	14	2	0	1	5	2	8	0	0	.159	.187	.216	.403	4.4	10.2	.186	2.5
1963	37	71	64	6	9	2	0	1	8	1	11	0	0	.141	.147	.219	.366	-5.9	7.8	.161	0.8
1964	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	1.000	—	—	400.1	—	.739	-0.4
1965	27	47	45	1	8	0	0	0	2	1	8	0	0	.178	.196	.178	.373	4.9	10.6	.176	1.1
1966	37	32	30	5	7	3	0	0	2	2	5	0	0	.233	.281	.333	.615	74.3	74.8	.282	1.5
1967	21	20	20	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	.100	.100	.100	.200	-64.5	-41.1	.093	0.1
1969	17	19	16	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	.063	.059	.063	.121	-88.3	-65.5	.055	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1953	33	18	9	4	0	3	1	126	54	64	82	12	115.0	4.23	1.652	6.42	4.24	97.9	102.5	1.5
1954	29	21	11	7	0	6	2	147	72	53	79	13	151.7	4.27	1.319	4.69	3.56	85.6	97.3	1.8
1955	27	24	9	10	0	5	2	160	70	57	114	15	159.3	3.95	1.362	6.44	3.25	79.1	103.8	1.8
1957	31	27	12	9	3	10	6	168	58	44	109	15	196.0	2.66	1.082	5.01	3.08	75.2	154.0	5.3
1958	39	31	13	15	1	10	2	208	87	78	143	27	210.3	3.72	1.360	6.12	3.96	94.8	112.1	2.8
1959	34	29	14	9	0	6	2	192	89	74	145	23	195.0	4.11	1.364	6.69	3.85	92.6	101.3	2.5
1960	34	33	14	12	0	8	1	217	78	71	159	25	227.7	3.08	1.265	6.29	3.63	92.8	126.8	4.4
1961	32	29	18	5	0	6	1	192	76	51	124	27	182.7	3.74	1.330	6.11	4.13	101.8	108.5	2.6
1962	40	40	15	13	0	8	0	270	108	71	178	20	255.0	3.81	1.337	6.28	3.21	84.8	99.5	2.5
1963	37	34	14	12	1	10	5	196	78	64	134	16	198.3	3.54	1.311	6.08	3.21	104.6	86.6	0.8
1964	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	5	5	3	0	1	2.7	16.88	3.000	0.00	11.00	336.4	19.4	-0.4
1965	27	22	7	6	1	2	1	126	51	39	63	17	134.0	3.43	1.231	4.23	4.26	130.2	95.6	1.1
1966	37	13	4	5	4	2	1	108	41	35	54	12	109.3	3.38	1.308	4.45	3.87	110.5	103.6	1.5
1967	21	8	3	1	1	0	0	58	27	11	34	12	63.3	3.84	1.089	4.83	4.38	133.0	85.8	0.1
1969	17	9	5	6	0	1	0	66	31	28	17	7	64.7	4.31	1.454	2.37	4.88	138.5	81.7	-0.1

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

462

852

762

145

RBI

108

.1903

OBP

.2237

SLG

.2257

OPS

.4494

Pitching

G (P)

440

340

235th-most career GS

148

268th-most career W

116

380th-most career L

SHO

189th-most career SHO

2,265

324th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,435

263rd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

743

316th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.675

WHIP

1.3166

K/9

5.70

450th-highest career K/9

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	TB
1962-08-14	LAD @ PIT Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	1	5
1957-09-11	LAD @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	0	1	4
1954-04-25	LAD @ PIT Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	0	1	4
1963-08-16	LAD @ NYM Gameday	1	1	1	0	0	1	2	4
1959-06-11	LAD @ PHI Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1959-09-07	CHC @ LAD Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	4	14	0
1963-07-01	ATL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	2	12	1
1958-04-16	LAD @ SF Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	4	11	0
1963-07-10	LAD @ NYM Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	2	11	0
1961-04-12	PHI @ LAD Gameday	8.0	8	2	1	1	11	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× World Series MVP3× 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.