Johnny Taylor

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 165 lb

BornFebruary 4, 1916 · Hartford, CT, USA

Seasons7 (1935–1945)

New York Cubans 1935–1936; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1938; Toledo Crawfords 1939; Newark Eagles 1940; New York Cubans 1940; New York Cubans 1944–1945

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified pitchers

9.6

20.2

1.1

51.1

20.2

SHO

76.6

75.5

70.2

27.7

63.8

77.3

19.1

ERA

5.12

WHIP

1.578

K/9

6.17

92.6

FIP

5.43

7.4

FIP-

104.0

25.5

ERA+

102.0

36.2

sWAR

1.2

30.9

of 95 qualified 1940 pitchers (min 42 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.2

81.7

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1935	15	30	26	2	1	0	0	0	2	4	.038	.107	.038	.146	-42.3	-61.6	.087	2.0
1936	11	24	20	3	4	0	0	0	2	0	.200	.304	.200	.504	46.4	31.2	.260	0.7
1938	11	35	33	5	10	1	0	3	0	0	.303	.303	.333	.636	69.0	67.9	.292	1.6
1939	1	4	3	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	78.3	77.3	.310	0.0
1940	13	34	29	6	9	0	1	3	5	0	.310	.412	.414	.826	116.6	114.6	.393	1.2
1944	2	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-89.3	-100.0	.000	0.7
1945	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	123.3	46.3	.383	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1935	15	7	5	3	0	3	0	55	23	42	56	1	74.3	2.78	1.305	6.78	4.46	87.4	183.1	2.0
1936	11	8	3	4	1	4	1	55	33	44	59	6	60.3	4.92	1.641	8.80	5.54	108.5	103.8	0.7
1938	10	9	7	2	0	8	0	65	34	30	51	3	75.0	4.08	1.267	6.12	4.32	85.5	123.9	1.6
1939	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	4	2	1	0	5.7	6.35	1.588	1.59	4.49	92.6	76.3	0.0
1940	12	9	1	8	0	5	0	84	44	38	53	7	77.3	5.12	1.578	6.17	5.43	104.0	102.0	1.2
1944	2	2	1	0	0	1	1	14	1	3	13	0	15.3	0.59	1.109	7.63	2.63	61.0	735.3	0.7
1945	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	8	3	1	1	1	5.7	4.76	1.588	1.59	6.19	150.2	86.5	0.0

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

134

117

RBI

.2137

OBP

.2813

SLG

.2479

OPS

.5292

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

314

SO (P)

234

BB allowed

160

ERA

4.074

WHIP

1.4283

K/9

6.71

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1938-06-05	NBY @ TIC Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	2	0	4
1940-08-25	NYC @ BEG Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	0	4
1938-06-14	PHS @ TIC Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	0	0	3
1940-06-23	NYC @ NE Gameday	4	3	2	0	0	1	1	2
1938-05-30	TIC @ PHS Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-07-31	NBY @ TIC Gameday	9.0	3	3	3	2	12	0
1935-07-29	NYC @ HOM Gameday	8.0	5	4	3	3	11	0
1936-06-28	TIC @ NYC Gameday	7.0	6	4	3	7	11	0
1936-05-10	TIC @ NYC Gameday	8.2	8	6	6	8	9	2
1935-05-19	NYC @ BEG Gameday	9.0	8	1	1	1	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.

Honors

1× 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.