Ken Johnson
St. Louis Cardinals 1947–1949; Philadelphia Phillies 1950; St. Louis Cardinals 1950; Philadelphia Phillies 1951; Detroit Tigers 1952
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 171.2 | 163.4 | .461 | 0.6 |
| 1948 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .300 | .300 | .400 | .700 | 77.9 | 85.0 | .315 | 0.3 |
| 1949 | 21 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .375 | .625 | 53.3 | 63.7 | .277 | -0.5 |
| 1950 | 23 | 20 | 19 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .158 | .200 | .158 | .358 | -11.8 | -3.2 | .173 | 0.7 |
| 1951 | 36 | 37 | 35 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .143 | .167 | .143 | .310 | -28.4 | -14.6 | .148 | 0.0 |
| 1952 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 77.4 | 83.5 | .311 | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 10.0 | 0.00 | .700 | 7.20 | 2.77 | 66.6 | — | 0.6 |
| 1948 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 24 | 30 | 20 | 1 | 45.3 | 4.76 | 1.610 | 3.97 | 4.02 | 98.6 | 85.6 | 0.3 |
| 1949 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 24 | 35 | 18 | 1 | 33.7 | 6.42 | 1.901 | 4.81 | 5.23 | 127.0 | 64.2 | -0.5 |
| 1950 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 62 | 27 | 46 | 33 | 3 | 62.7 | 3.88 | 1.723 | 4.74 | 4.27 | 105.9 | 104.1 | 0.7 |
| 1951 | 20 | 18 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 103 | 54 | 68 | 58 | 8 | 106.3 | 4.57 | 1.608 | 4.91 | 4.27 | 111.3 | 84.0 | 0.0 |
| 1952 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 11.3 | 6.35 | 2.029 | 7.94 | 4.66 | 123.5 | 59.4 | -0.2 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-09-27 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1949-05-08 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1948-08-28 | SF @ STL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1948-05-02 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1952-07-15 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-08-27 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 1947-09-27 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| 1951-09-09 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 8.0 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| 1950-08-07 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 1951-07-22 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 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.