Johnny Wright

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornNovember 28, 1916 · New Orleans, LA, USA

Seasons10 (1937–1947)

Newark Eagles 1937–1939; Toledo Crawfords 1939; Toledo-Indianapolis Crawfords 1940; Homestead Grays 1941–1945; Newark Eagles 1945; Homestead Grays 1947

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified pitchers

6.6

9.2

5.3

73.7

19.7

SHO

18.4

86.8

89.5

27.6

86.8

89.7

11.8

ERA

3.61

42.1

WHIP

1.271

73.7

K/9

6.32

93.4

FIP

3.60

56.6

FIP-

87.0

72.4

ERA+

114.5

56.6

sWAR

1.2

21.1

of 77 qualified 1947 pitchers (min 70 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

12.6

89.4

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1937	6	11	11	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	.091	.091	.182	.273	-23.3	-31.7	.117	0.1
1938	7	15	13	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	.077	.143	.077	.220	-19.5	-40.5	.120	0.4
1939	7	16	14	1	3	0	0	1	0	0	.214	.267	.214	.481	45.3	37.0	.239	0.1
1940	8	23	20	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	.050	.095	.050	.145	-36.6	-56.2	.083	1.2
1941	10	24	20	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	.000	.130	.000	.130	-31.7	-61.0	.098	1.3
1942	18	28	27	2	5	0	2	1	0	1	.185	.214	.185	.399	22.5	14.3	.197	1.2
1943	32	82	76	10	14	6	7	3	5	0	.184	.215	.263	.478	33.8	27.5	.228	5.8
1944	3	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-89.3	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1945	7	22	22	3	4	0	2	0	3	0	.182	.182	.182	.364	4.4	2.0	.172	1.7
1947	14	34	34	1	5	0	1	0	0	0	.147	.147	.147	.294	-18.0	-19.4	.139	1.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1937	6	4	2	1	0	2	0	40	19	9	19	3	32.0	5.34	1.531	5.34	4.91	98.3	93.4	0.1
1938	7	4	1	2	0	1	0	27	18	21	17	1	35.3	4.58	1.358	4.33	5.24	103.6	110.2	0.4
1939	7	5	2	4	0	2	0	45	21	11	16	1	38.7	4.89	1.448	3.72	3.94	92.7	85.8	0.1
1940	7	7	1	6	0	6	0	41	15	10	29	0	52.7	2.56	.968	4.96	3.37	81.6	161.1	1.2
1941	10	5	6	0	0	3	2	38	17	20	29	4	55.7	2.75	1.042	4.69	4.61	104.4	160.5	1.3
1942	17	7	4	2	3	4	0	75	30	22	43	2	78.0	3.46	1.244	4.96	3.30	84.1	113.3	1.2
1943	31	23	18	3	1	15	3	169	53	43	99	1	189.0	2.52	1.122	4.71	3.88	80.6	190.5	5.8
1944	3	2	2	0	0	1	0	15	11	5	9	0	14.3	6.91	1.395	5.65	3.53	81.8	62.5	-0.3
1945	7	5	4	0	0	4	2	37	7	11	23	0	45.7	1.38	1.051	4.53	3.63	88.2	298.9	1.7
1947	14	11	4	5	0	7	1	86	36	28	63	3	89.7	3.61	1.271	6.32	3.60	87.0	114.5	1.2

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

112

261

243

RBI

.1399

OBP

.1739

SLG

.1687

OPS

.3426

Pitching

G (P)

109

SHO

631

SO (P)

347

BB allowed

180

ERA

3.238

WHIP

1.1933

K/9

4.95

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	RBI	TB
1943-05-31	BEG @ HOM Gameday	5	2	2	1	1	3
1942-05-30	NYC @ HOM Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2
1945-07-23	HOM @ NYC Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2
1937-08-11	NE @ TIC Gameday	3	0	1	1	0	2
1943-05-20	NE @ HOM Gameday	4	1	1	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1947-06-01	NE @ HOM Gameday	10.0	5	2	2	1	9
1947-07-08	KCM @ HOM Gameday	8.1	5	3	2	3	9
1942-06-08	NE @ HOM Gameday	7.0	13	5	4	2	9
1943-05-16	BEG @ HOM Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	1	8
1945-07-23	HOM @ NYC Gameday	9.0	8	2	2	3	8

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

3× 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.