Johnny Wyrostek

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornJuly 12, 1919 · Fairmont City, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1942

Final gameSeptember 26, 1954

Seasons11 (1942–1954)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1942–1943; Philadelphia Phillies 1946–1947; Cincinnati Reds 1948–1952; Philadelphia Phillies 1952–1954

Percentile snapshot

1952 season — qualified batters

128

9.3

496

10.7

427

113

5.3

17.3

RBI

77.3

17.3

10.7

.265

38.7

OBP

.359

57.3

SLG

.347

9.3

OPS

.706

25.3

wRC+

102.2

30.7

OPS+

98.1

26.7

wOBA

.335

30.7

sWAR

1.3

of 76 qualified 1952 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

98.6

OPS+

97.8

37.2

sWAR

11.7

88.5

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1942	9	38	35	0	4	0	1	0	3	3	2	0	0	.114	.184	.171	.356	-7.5	3.3	.181	-0.4
1943	51	83	79	7	12	3	0	0	1	3	15	0	0	.152	.183	.190	.373	-11.3	6.0	.181	-0.9
1946	145	628	545	73	153	30	4	6	45	70	42	7	0	.281	.366	.383	.749	116.4	113.4	.360	3.5
1947	128	523	454	68	124	24	7	5	51	61	45	7	0	.273	.364	.390	.754	104.9	102.7	.353	1.6
1948	136	567	512	74	140	24	9	17	76	52	63	7	0	.273	.344	.455	.799	115.2	116.8	.363	3.2
1949	134	534	474	54	118	20	4	9	46	58	63	7	0	.249	.333	.365	.698	86.4	85.8	.326	0.6
1950	131	569	509	70	145	34	5	8	76	52	38	1	0	.285	.357	.418	.775	103.2	102.6	.352	1.4
1951	142	598	537	52	167	31	3	2	61	54	54	2	1	.311	.376	.391	.767	107.6	105.1	.355	1.8
1952	128	496	427	57	113	17	6	2	47	62	33	2	9	.265	.359	.347	.706	102.2	98.1	.335	1.3
1953	125	452	409	42	111	14	2	6	47	38	43	0	3	.271	.339	.359	.699	85.2	84.4	.319	0.1
1954	92	296	259	28	62	12	4	3	28	29	39	0	0	.239	.314	.351	.665	73.3	75.1	.304	-0.5

Career totals

1,221

4,784

4,240

525

1,149

209

RBI

481

482

437

.2710

OBP

.3486

SLG

.3825

OPS

.7311

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
1948-06-11	PHI @ CIN Gameday	4	4	4	1	0	2	3	1	11
1948-07-04	STL @ CIN Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
1946-08-15	PHI @ ATL Gameday	6	2	5	3	0	0	3	0	8
1950-06-25	CIN @ SF Gameday	5	0	4	1	1	0	3	0	7
1948-05-28	CHC @ CIN Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	1	1	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1942-04-14	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-15	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-16	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-17	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-18	STL @ PIT 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.