Johnny Washington

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb

BornFebruary 9, 1915 · Montgomery, AL, USA

Seasons9 (1936–1948)

Pittsburgh Crawfords 1936–1937; New York Black Yankees 1938; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1938; New York Black Yankees 1939–1940; Baltimore Elite Giants 1941; Baltimore Elite Giants 1946–1948

Percentile snapshot

1948 season — qualified batters

15.1

235

15.1

215

16.1

6.5

16.1

6.5

26.9

RBI

17.2

8.6

84.9

17.2

41.9

.298

67.7

OBP

.346

34.4

SLG

.372

26.9

OPS

.718

26.9

wRC+

106.5

38.7

OPS+

107.8

41.9

wOBA

.343

31.2

sWAR

0.5

18.3

of 94 qualified 1948 batters (min 226 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.9

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
1936	52	178	154	37	53	6	5	2	34	18	0	1	0	.344	.413	.487	.900	125.7	129.0	.413	0.9
1937	30	112	108	13	33	4	1	2	15	3	0	0	0	.306	.324	.417	.741	88.5	89.4	.332	0.1
1938	36	143	129	12	31	7	2	2	25	11	0	2	0	.240	.305	.372	.677	80.0	78.2	.313	-0.1
1939	30	119	111	19	36	6	1	1	17	7	0	1	0	.324	.370	.423	.793	108.2	109.9	.367	0.3
1940	32	135	128	31	47	11	1	2	21	4	1	3	1	.367	.391	.516	.907	126.8	134.5	.413	0.8
1941	59	244	228	35	72	11	8	1	36	12	4	13	0	.316	.350	.447	.797	117.3	122.3	.366	0.9
1946	63	250	237	38	67	6	3	2	34	11	0	11	0	.283	.315	.359	.673	86.2	87.7	.320	-0.1
1947	57	231	216	30	81	11	6	0	44	11	0	7	0	.375	.408	.481	.889	137.3	142.8	.416	1.5
1948	56	235	215	23	64	8	4	0	33	16	0	2	0	.298	.346	.372	.718	106.5	107.8	.343	0.5

Career totals

415

1,647

1,526

238

484

RBI

259

.3172

OBP

.3580

SLG

.4273

OPS

.7853

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
1939-05-30	BEG @ NBY Gameday	4	3	4	3	0	0	4	7
1940-06-23	NBY @ BEG Gameday	5	4	4	0	0	1	1	7
1936-08-09	TIC @ NYC Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	0	2	7
1937-07-13	TIC @ NBY Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	1	3	7
1947-06-22	PHS @ BEG Gameday	4	4	4	2	0	0	4	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1936-05-09	TIC @ NYC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-05-10	TIC @ NYC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-05-10	TIC @ NYC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-05-15	PHS @ TIC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-05-16	PHS @ TIC 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.

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.