MLB / Players

Ken Johnson

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb
BornJanuary 14, 1923 · Topeka, KS, USA
MLB debutSeptember 18, 1947
Final gameJuly 15, 1952
Seasons6 (1947–1952)

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
0.9
63.1

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19472441200000100.500.500.5001.000171.2163.4.4610.6
19482020202620010700.300.300.400.70077.985.0.3150.3
194921883210020100.250.250.375.62553.363.7.277-0.5
19502320194300001300.158.200.158.358-11.8-3.2.1730.7
195136373575000311110.143.167.143.310-28.4-14.6.1480.0
19529330100020000.333.333.333.66777.483.5.311-0.2

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
194721100102058010.00.00.7007.202.7766.60.6
19481342400043243020145.34.761.6103.974.0298.685.60.3
19491420100029243518133.76.421.9014.815.23127.064.2-0.5
19501684103162274633362.73.881.7234.744.27105.9104.10.7
19512018580431035468588106.34.571.6084.914.27111.384.00.0
195291000001281110111.36.352.0297.944.66123.559.4-0.2

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

G
111
PA
92
AB
89
R
17
H
19
2B
3
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
8
BB
2
SO
23
SB
1
BA
.2135
OBP
.2308
SLG
.2472
OPS
.4780

Pitching

G (P)
74
GS
34
W
12
L
14
SV
0
CG
8
SHO
4
IP
269
SO (P)
147
BB allowed
195
ERA
4.578
WHIP
1.6559
K/9
4.91

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1947-09-27STL @ CHC Gameday412000002
1949-05-08STL @ LAD Gameday301100202
1948-08-28SF @ STL Gameday101100102
1948-05-02CHC @ STL Gameday101100002
1952-07-15DET @ MIN Gameday201000201

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1951-08-27CIN @ PHI Gameday9.0700280
1947-09-27STL @ CHC Gameday9.0110470
1951-09-09PHI @ ATL Gameday8.01054470
1950-08-07STL @ PHI Gameday9.0200660
1951-07-22CHC @ PHI Gameday7.0511360

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.