Roy Johnson

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 175 lb

BornFebruary 23, 1903 · Pryor, OK, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1929

Final gameApril 27, 1938

Seasons10 (1929–1938)

Detroit Tigers 1929–1931; Boston Red Sox 1932; Detroit Tigers 1932; Boston Red Sox 1933–1935; New York Yankees 1936; Boston Bees 1937; New York Yankees 1937; Boston Bees 1938

Percentile snapshot

1935 season — qualified batters

145

67.2

635

553

70.7

174

76.7

70.7

72.4

20.7

RBI

52.6

86.2

50.9

0.9

.315

70.7

OBP

.398

SLG

.423

45.7

OPS

.822

60.3

wRC+

110.9

59.5

OPS+

108.0

52.6

wOBA

.385

66.4

sWAR

2.2

59.5

of 117 qualified 1935 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

107.2

56.1

OPS+

107.3

57.2

sWAR

15.9

91.5

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
1929	148	713	640	128	201	45	14	10	69	67	60	20	15	.314	.379	.475	.854	116.4	116.8	.388	3.3
1930	125	505	462	84	127	30	13	2	35	40	46	17	10	.275	.333	.409	.742	83.9	84.6	.336	0.1
1931	151	697	621	107	173	37	19	8	55	72	51	33	21	.279	.355	.438	.793	103.9	104.6	.365	1.9
1932	143	610	544	103	153	38	6	14	69	64	67	20	6	.281	.359	.450	.809	109.0	110.1	.368	2.2
1933	133	547	483	88	151	30	7	10	95	55	36	13	10	.313	.387	.466	.853	123.0	123.2	.393	2.8
1934	143	626	569	85	182	43	10	7	119	54	36	11	5	.320	.379	.467	.846	112.2	113.4	.388	2.4
1935	145	635	553	70	174	33	9	3	66	74	34	11	12	.315	.398	.423	.822	110.9	108.0	.385	2.2
1936	63	170	147	21	39	8	2	1	19	21	14	3	1	.265	.361	.367	.728	88.7	85.2	.345	0.2
1937	97	353	311	29	87	11	3	3	28	41	31	6	0	.280	.364	.363	.727	106.1	103.9	.344	1.1
1938	7	30	29	2	5	0	0	0	1	1	5	1	0	.172	.200	.172	.372	2.6	8.6	.179	-0.3

Career totals

1,155

4,886

4,359

717

1,292

275

261st-most career 3B

RBI

556

489

380

135

.2964

278th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3689

308th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4375

OPS

.8064

439th-highest career OPS

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
1932-06-27	BOS @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	2	7	0	10
1929-05-18	CWS @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	3	1	9
1930-06-16	ATH @ DET Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
1929-07-12	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	1	4	1	8
1929-07-04	DET @ BAL Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	1	2	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1929-04-16	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-17	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-18	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-19	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-20	DET @ BAL 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.