Johnny Watwood

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 186 lb

BornAugust 17, 1905 · Alexander City, AL, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1929

Final gameMay 29, 1939

Seasons6 (1929–1939)

Chicago White Sox 1929–1931; Boston Red Sox 1932; Chicago White Sox 1932; Boston Red Sox 1933; Philadelphia Phillies 1939

Percentile snapshot

1930 season — qualified batters

133

496

40.3

427

38.8

48.5

129

41.8

46.3

17.2

RBI

37.3

71.6

33.6

38.1

11.2

.302

38.1

OBP

.382

51.5

SLG

.393

21.6

OPS

.775

32.8

wRC+

101.9

38.8

OPS+

98.7

37.3

wOBA

.360

37.3

sWAR

1.3

38.1

of 135 qualified 1930 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.4

71.7

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1929	85	308	278	33	84	12	6	2	28	22	21	6	3	.302	.355	.410	.766	96.7	97.1	.352	0.9
1930	133	496	427	75	129	25	4	2	51	52	35	5	7	.302	.382	.393	.775	101.9	98.7	.360	1.3
1931	128	434	367	51	104	16	6	1	47	56	30	9	3	.283	.380	.368	.748	105.4	100.9	.356	1.6
1932	108	344	315	31	81	13	0	0	30	21	14	7	4	.257	.306	.298	.604	59.6	59.0	.285	-0.9
1933	13	33	30	2	4	0	0	0	2	3	3	0	0	.133	.212	.133	.345	-6.1	-7.6	.181	-0.4
1939	2	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-27.7	-10.4	.154	-0.1

Career totals

469

1,621

1,423

192

403

RBI

158

154

103

.2832

OBP

.3557

SLG

.3626

OPS

.7183

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
1931-07-22	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	2	5	1	1	0	2	0	8
1930-07-16	ATH @ CWS Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	4	1	8
1929-07-05	CWS @ CLE Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	1	2	0	8
1931-05-05	CWS @ DET Gameday	3	1	3	1	1	0	1	1	6
1930-07-20	BOS @ CWS Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	0	2	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1929-04-16	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-17	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-18	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-19	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-22	CWS @ CLE 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.