MLB / Players

Johnny Rigney

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb

BornOctober 28, 1914 · Oak Park, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 21, 1937

Final gameJuly 4, 1947

Seasons8 (1937–1947)

Chicago White Sox 1937–1942; Chicago White Sox 1946–1947

Percentile snapshot

1941 season — qualified pitchers

53.6

80.4

74.2

18.6

86.6

SHO

78.4

224

19.6

101

8.2

12.4

119

92.8

237.0

87.6

ERA

3.84

42.3

WHIP

1.333

56.7

K/9

4.52

73.2

FIP

4.10

39.2

FIP-

101.3

41.2

ERA+

105.5

47.4

sWAR

3.1

70.1

of 98 qualified 1941 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

119.1

88.5

sWAR

19.8

93.5

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	3B	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1937	22	36	30	4	5	0	0	0	4	9	0	0	.167	.265	.167	.431	15.4	11.7	.224	0.5
1938	38	59	55	1	8	1	0	4	1	17	0	0	.145	.161	.164	.324	-28.7	-18.8	.152	3.5
1939	35	87	80	4	16	4	0	7	2	18	0	0	.200	.220	.250	.470	14.0	20.2	.217	4.1
1940	40	108	93	5	20	4	0	7	3	28	1	0	.215	.240	.258	.498	23.2	29.6	.229	6.5
1941	30	92	84	8	17	1	1	5	6	27	0	1	.202	.256	.238	.494	29.3	32.9	.238	3.1
1942	7	22	19	1	1	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	.053	.100	.053	.153	-68.0	-55.7	.085	0.7
1946	15	30	26	2	4	1	0	4	0	7	0	0	.154	.154	.192	.346	-24.5	-2.3	.159	0.1
1947	11	15	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.5	-100.0	.000	1.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1937	22	4	2	5	1	0	0	107	50	46	38	10	90.7	4.96	1.688	3.77	5.34	116.9	92.1	0.5
1938	38	12	9	9	1	7	1	164	66	72	84	16	167.0	3.56	1.413	4.53	4.68	97.2	135.5	3.5
1939	35	29	15	8	0	11	2	208	90	84	119	10	218.7	3.70	1.335	4.90	3.82	83.3	123.9	4.1
1940	39	33	14	18	3	19	2	240	97	90	141	22	280.7	3.11	1.176	4.52	3.92	90.4	139.5	6.5
1941	30	29	13	13	0	18	3	224	101	92	119	21	237.0	3.84	1.333	4.52	4.10	101.3	105.5	3.1
1942	7	7	3	3	0	6	0	40	21	16	34	2	59.0	3.20	.949	5.19	2.70	76.2	110.7	0.7
1946	15	11	5	5	0	3	2	76	37	35	51	6	82.7	4.03	1.343	5.55	3.50	103.0	84.3	0.1
1947	11	7	2	3	0	2	0	42	11	15	19	3	50.7	1.95	1.125	3.38	3.33	92.5	184.4	1.3

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

198

449

401

RBI

113

.1771

OBP

.2105

SLG

.2095

OPS

.4200

Pitching

G (P)

197

132

SHO

1,186

SO (P)

605

BB allowed

450

ERA

3.588

WHIP

1.3074

K/9

4.59

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	BB	TB
1940-07-27	NYY @ CWS Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	2	0	4
1941-07-18	BOS @ CWS Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	2	0	4
1940-07-16	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	1	0	3
1941-06-17	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	0	3
1938-08-12	CLE @ CWS Gameday	3	1	3	0	0	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1939-08-14	BAL @ CWS Gameday	9.0	3	2	0	1	10	0
1940-09-29	BAL @ CWS Gameday	9.0	7	2	1	2	10	0
1946-07-28	NYY @ CWS Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	3	9	0
1938-08-23	CWS @ NYY Gameday	8.0	4	3	3	6	9	2
1941-09-01	CWS @ CLE Gameday	12.0	9	3	2	4	8	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.