Johnny Schmitz

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornNovember 27, 1920 · Wausau, WI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 6, 1941

Final gameSeptember 7, 1956

Seasons13 (1941–1956)

Chicago Cubs 1941–1942; Chicago Cubs 1946–1950; Brooklyn Dodgers 1951; Chicago Cubs 1951; Brooklyn Dodgers 1952; Cincinnati Reds 1952; New York Yankees 1952–1953; Washington Senators 1953–1955; Baltimore Orioles 1956; Boston Red Sox 1956

Percentile snapshot

1955 season — qualified pitchers

5.8

3.8

48.1

13.5

SHO

11.5

187

51.9

86.5

82.7

100

165.0

17.3

ERA

3.71

57.7

WHIP

1.461

15.4

K/9

2.67

FIP

3.57

69.2

FIP-

90.6

61.5

ERA+

106.4

51.9

sWAR

2.1

40.4

of 53 qualified 1955 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

106.8

64.2

sWAR

21.6

94.2

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1941	6	8	7	1	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	.571	.571	.571	1.143	236.9	227.0	.535	0.9
1942	23	28	26	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	5	.154	.154	.154	.308	-28.1	-8.6	.145	0.5
1946	42	80	70	3	9	0	0	1	3	4	13	.129	.176	.171	.347	-15.4	0.2	.172	4.0
1947	38	78	68	3	9	0	0	0	3	4	30	.132	.181	.132	.313	-22.4	-14.2	.157	3.5
1948	34	94	84	3	11	1	1	0	4	3	19	.131	.161	.167	.328	-22.3	-9.9	.156	5.5
1949	36	77	70	4	10	2	1	0	4	4	10	.143	.189	.200	.389	-3.7	5.4	.185	1.1
1950	39	70	67	3	8	2	0	0	5	1	19	.119	.132	.149	.282	-44.2	-26.1	.129	-0.2
1951	24	25	24	1	5	1	0	1	3	1	4	.208	.240	.375	.615	52.4	62.8	.273	-0.8
1952	18	15	13	1	4	0	1	0	2	0	5	.308	.308	.462	.769	108.1	118.5	.346	0.6
1953	27	38	34	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	13	.059	.059	.059	.118	-93.0	-67.7	.055	1.1
1954	29	68	60	6	7	0	0	0	1	2	15	.117	.145	.117	.262	-44.1	-25.8	.130	2.9
1955	32	58	54	5	10	3	0	0	5	1	7	.185	.200	.241	.441	7.1	18.8	.205	2.1
1956	20	11	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.8	-100.0	.000	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1941	5	3	2	0	0	1	0	12	3	9	11	0	20.7	1.31	1.016	4.79	2.95	83.5	270.6	0.9
1942	23	10	3	7	2	1	0	70	33	45	51	3	86.7	3.43	1.327	5.30	3.22	99.8	94.1	0.5
1946	41	31	11	11	2	14	2	184	65	94	135	6	224.3	2.61	1.239	5.42	2.75	83.0	126.9	4.0
1947	38	28	13	18	4	10	3	209	74	80	97	8	207.0	3.22	1.396	4.22	3.32	84.6	122.1	3.5
1948	34	30	18	13	1	18	2	186	71	97	100	11	242.0	2.64	1.169	3.72	3.56	92.6	145.6	5.5
1949	36	31	11	13	3	9	3	227	100	92	75	11	207.0	4.35	1.541	3.26	3.86	97.2	91.3	1.1
1950	39	27	10	16	0	8	3	217	107	91	75	23	193.0	4.99	1.596	3.50	4.70	113.5	83.1	-0.2
1951	24	10	2	6	0	0	0	77	49	43	26	5	73.7	5.99	1.629	3.18	4.39	109.7	66.8	-0.8
1952	18	5	3	2	1	2	0	47	22	30	17	3	53.3	3.71	1.444	2.87	4.30	118.1	98.0	0.6
1953	27	13	2	7	5	5	0	120	45	40	39	10	112.0	3.62	1.429	3.13	4.21	108.5	107.4	1.1
1954	29	23	11	8	1	12	2	176	60	64	56	6	185.3	2.91	1.295	2.72	3.28	91.9	122.5	2.9
1955	32	21	7	10	1	6	1	187	68	54	49	8	165.0	3.71	1.461	2.67	3.57	90.6	106.4	2.1
1956	20	3	0	3	0	0	0	54	17	18	15	3	42.7	3.59	1.688	3.16	4.05	102.3	110.2	0.4

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

368

650

587

RBI

147

.1414

OBP

.1697

SLG

.1772

OPS

.3469

Pitching

G (P)

366

235

114

401st-most career L

SHO

354th-most career SHO

1,813

SO (P)

746

BB allowed

757

303rd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.545

484th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3919

K/9

3.70

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
1946-05-18	CHC @ SF Gameday	6	1	2	0	0	1	1	5
1955-08-07	CLE @ MIN Gameday	4	1	2	2	0	0	2	4
1952-08-14	MIN @ NYY Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	1	4
1951-08-05	LAD @ CIN Gameday	4	1	1	0	0	1	1	4
1941-09-14	ATL @ CHC Gameday	3	1	3	0	0	0	2	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1946-05-09	ATL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	7	2	1	3	9	0
1946-07-20	PHI @ CHC Gameday	9.0	9	2	2	3	9	1
1948-05-08	LAD @ CHC Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	4	9	0
1949-09-05	CIN @ CHC Gameday	9.0	9	2	2	4	9	0
1947-05-18	LAD @ CHC Gameday	6.2	6	4	4	8	9	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

2× 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.