Johnny Ray
Birmingham Black Barons 1937; Cleveland Bears 1939–1940; Jacksonville Red Caps 1941–1942; Cincinnati Clowns 1943; Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns 1944; Birmingham Black Barons 1945; Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns 1945; Kansas City Monarchs 1945
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 16 | 71 | 60 | 14 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .450 | .529 | .517 | 1.045 | 176.5 | 190.0 | .486 | 1.0 |
| 1939 | 25 | 110 | 95 | 21 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | .189 | .294 | .242 | .536 | 66.7 | 56.6 | .272 | -0.1 |
| 1940 | 24 | 108 | 84 | 18 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .238 | .402 | .238 | .640 | 110.1 | 93.2 | .349 | 0.5 |
| 1941 | 10 | 43 | 35 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .333 | .200 | .533 | 76.8 | 59.5 | .287 | 0.0 |
| 1942 | 9 | 34 | 32 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .156 | .206 | .156 | .362 | 19.4 | 8.7 | .182 | -0.2 |
| 1943 | 36 | 135 | 117 | 16 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .171 | .265 | .205 | .470 | 56.0 | 45.0 | .244 | -0.2 |
| 1944 | 29 | 127 | 111 | 16 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .198 | .291 | .216 | .508 | 67.3 | 58.0 | .264 | -0.2 |
| 1945 | 26 | 88 | 77 | 8 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .195 | .262 | .221 | .483 | 52.6 | 41.4 | .241 | -0.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-07-08 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 1937-05-30 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 1937-05-30 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1939-07-09 | MEM @ JRC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1939-05-28 | JRC @ HSL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-05-09 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-09 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-15 | SLS @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-16 | SLS @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-16 | SLS @ BBB 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.