Johnny Sain
Boston Braves 1942; Boston Braves 1946–1951; New York Yankees 1951–1954; Kansas City Athletics 1955; New York Yankees 1955
Percentile snapshot
1953 season — qualified pitchers
of 59 qualified 1953 pitchers (min 151 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 40 | 30 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .074 | .107 | .074 | .181 | -66.8 | -46.5 | .095 | 0.0 |
| 1946 | 40 | 104 | 94 | 6 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .298 | .298 | .340 | .638 | 70.8 | 80.2 | .298 | 7.2 |
| 1947 | 40 | 118 | 107 | 13 | 37 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .346 | .364 | .411 | .775 | 106.9 | 108.8 | .355 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 43 | 132 | 115 | 11 | 25 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .217 | .224 | .261 | .485 | 21.5 | 32.6 | .222 | 7.9 |
| 1949 | 39 | 102 | 97 | 10 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .206 | .222 | .237 | .459 | 18.2 | 26.9 | .212 | -0.3 |
| 1950 | 37 | 116 | 102 | 9 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .206 | .257 | .255 | .512 | 35.1 | 39.2 | .240 | 3.0 |
| 1951 | 33 | 72 | 66 | 7 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .250 | .318 | .568 | 48.7 | 56.7 | .258 | 1.2 |
| 1952 | 47 | 75 | 71 | 4 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .268 | .297 | .394 | .692 | 92.0 | 98.7 | .318 | 2.0 |
| 1953 | 41 | 77 | 68 | 8 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .301 | .324 | .625 | 70.0 | 73.3 | .293 | 4.0 |
| 1954 | 45 | 20 | 17 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .353 | .421 | .412 | .833 | 142.5 | 136.0 | .394 | 1.4 |
| 1955 | 28 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -131.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 40 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 42 | 63 | 68 | 8 | 97.0 | 3.90 | 1.464 | 6.31 | 4.06 | 122.5 | 85.0 | 0.0 |
| 1946 | 37 | 34 | 20 | 14 | 2 | 24 | 3 | 225 | 65 | 87 | 129 | 8 | 265.0 | 2.21 | 1.177 | 4.38 | 2.75 | 79.9 | 155.6 | 7.2 |
| 1947 | 38 | 35 | 21 | 12 | 1 | 22 | 3 | 265 | 104 | 79 | 132 | 19 | 266.0 | 3.52 | 1.293 | 4.47 | 3.44 | 87.4 | 111.8 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 42 | 39 | 24 | 15 | 1 | 28 | 4 | 297 | 91 | 83 | 137 | 19 | 314.7 | 2.60 | 1.208 | 3.92 | 3.32 | 86.1 | 148.1 | 7.9 |
| 1949 | 37 | 36 | 10 | 17 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 285 | 130 | 75 | 73 | 15 | 243.0 | 4.81 | 1.481 | 2.70 | 3.71 | 97.4 | 79.0 | -0.3 |
| 1950 | 37 | 37 | 20 | 13 | 0 | 25 | 3 | 294 | 122 | 70 | 96 | 34 | 278.3 | 3.94 | 1.308 | 3.10 | 4.13 | 105.8 | 98.9 | 3.0 |
| 1951 | 33 | 26 | 7 | 14 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 236 | 92 | 53 | 84 | 21 | 197.3 | 4.20 | 1.465 | 3.83 | 3.80 | 101.4 | 89.3 | 1.2 |
| 1952 | 35 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 149 | 57 | 38 | 57 | 15 | 148.3 | 3.46 | 1.261 | 3.46 | 3.72 | 109.1 | 98.6 | 2.0 |
| 1953 | 40 | 19 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 189 | 63 | 45 | 84 | 16 | 189.0 | 3.00 | 1.238 | 4.00 | 3.54 | 93.4 | 126.3 | 4.0 |
| 1954 | 45 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 66 | 27 | 15 | 33 | 11 | 77.0 | 3.16 | 1.052 | 3.86 | 3.96 | 112.4 | 111.7 | 1.4 |
| 1955 | 28 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 31 | 11 | 17 | 14 | 50.0 | 5.58 | 1.420 | 3.06 | 6.05 | 149.3 | 73.1 | -0.5 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-06-09 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 1952-05-09 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1951-06-12 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1953-08-16 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1950-05-03 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-07-21 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 12.0 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 1 |
| 1947-04-30 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| 1947-06-05 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
| 1949-05-27 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
| 1947-09-11 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 12.1 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 2 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.