MLB / Players

Johnny Rucker

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 175 lb

BornJanuary 15, 1917 · Crabapple, GA, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1940

Final gameSeptember 29, 1946

Seasons6 (1940–1946)

New York Giants 1940–1941; New York Giants 1943–1946

Percentile snapshot

1944 season — qualified batters

144

63.6

622

69.1

587

87.3

68.2

143

53.6

21.8

77.3

56.4

RBI

28.2

23.6

24.5

77.3

.244

9.1

OBP

.275

1.8

SLG

.325

14.5

OPS

.600

6.4

wRC+

60.9

3.6

OPS+

67.2

6.4

wOBA

.280

4.5

sWAR

-0.7

1.8

of 111 qualified 1944 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.6

75.8

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1940	86	287	277	38	82	7	5	4	23	7	32	4	.296	.313	.401	.714	90.6	94.8	.324	0.7
1941	143	659	622	95	179	38	9	1	42	29	61	8	.288	.320	.383	.702	91.7	95.4	.327	1.7
1943	132	537	505	56	138	19	4	2	46	22	44	4	.273	.304	.339	.642	77.7	83.3	.305	0.6
1944	144	622	587	79	143	14	8	6	39	24	48	8	.244	.275	.325	.600	60.9	67.2	.280	-0.7
1945	105	452	429	58	117	19	11	7	51	20	36	7	.273	.305	.417	.722	91.4	97.0	.334	1.2
1946	95	212	197	28	52	8	2	1	13	7	27	4	.264	.300	.340	.640	73.5	79.9	.303	0.1

Career totals

705

2,769

2,617

354

711

105

RBI

214

109

248

.2717

OBP

.3018

SLG

.3657

OPS

.6675

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1940-09-29	ATL @ SF Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	7	1	8
1944-06-11	PHI @ SF Gameday	6	2	2	0	2	2	0	8
1945-08-12	CIN @ SF Gameday	4	2	2	1	1	2	0	7
1943-09-27	SF @ CHC Gameday	6	2	2	1	1	1	0	7
1941-05-25	SF @ ATL Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1940-04-16	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-19	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-23	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-24	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-25	ATL @ SF 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.