Steel Arm Johnny Taylor

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at168 lb

BornAugust 12, 1879 · Anderson, SC, USA

Seasons8 (1909–1920)

St. Paul Gophers 1909; Chicago Giants 1910; West Baden Sprudels 1910; St. Louis Giants 1911; West Baden Sprudels 1912; Chicago American Giants 1913; West Baden Sprudels 1913; Indianapolis ABCs 1914; Indianapolis ABCs 1916; Indianapolis ABCs 1920

Percentile snapshot

1914 season — qualified pitchers

2.5

1.7

86.6

1.7

SHO

94.1

90.8

92.4

1.7

35.3

76.3

4.2

ERA

4.36

3.4

WHIP

1.402

14.3

K/9

3.30

FIP

4.05

0.8

FIP-

127.6

ERA+

72.8

1.7

sWAR

-0.2

5.9

of 120 qualified 1914 pitchers (min 70 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

1.5

67.4

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	HR	RBI	BB	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1909	4	12	11	0	3	0	0	2	0	0	.273	.273	.273	.545	70.8	71.9	.257	0.3
1910	7	21	20	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	.050	.095	.050	.145	-33.9	-54.8	.080	0.7
1911	7	14	13	2	4	1	1	2	0	0	.308	.357	.615	.973	166.4	191.5	.446	0.8
1912	3	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	.125	.125	.125	.250	-12.5	-26.3	.118	-0.7
1913	8	26	22	1	4	0	0	1	2	0	.182	.250	.182	.432	33.5	21.7	.221	1.7
1914	17	50	44	5	9	3	0	6	3	0	.205	.271	.273	.544	59.8	51.4	.265	-0.2
1916	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.9
1920	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	—	1.000	—	—	360.7	—	.776	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1909	4	3	3	1	3	0	31	10	6	17	1	32.7	2.76	1.133	4.68	2.64	95.7	100.0	0.3
1910	7	5	2	2	3	0	40	12	11	18	0	50.3	2.15	1.013	3.22	3.10	105.2	137.4	0.7
1911	7	4	3	1	2	1	37	10	9	17	3	36.0	2.50	1.278	4.25	3.97	121.6	130.6	0.8
1912	3	2	1	1	2	0	27	15	2	7	0	18.7	7.23	1.554	3.38	2.67	81.7	45.2	-0.7
1913	8	7	5	2	7	1	55	15	12	33	0	68.0	1.99	.985	4.37	2.94	88.5	167.3	1.7
1914	11	8	3	6	4	0	80	37	27	28	5	76.3	4.36	1.402	3.30	4.05	127.6	72.8	-0.2
1916	2	1	0	0	0	0	8	9	1	0	1	1.3	60.75	6.750	0.00	16.87	570.6	4.9	-0.9
1920	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	2	0	0	0.3	81.00	12.000	0.00	30.11	839.1	4.4	-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

133

118

RBI

.1864

OBP

.2500

SLG

.2458

OPS

.4958

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

284

SO (P)

120

BB allowed

ERA

3.522

WHIP

1.2338

K/9

3.81

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
1920-05-02	CHG @ ABC Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-02	CHG @ ABC Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-09	CUB @ ABC Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-09	CUB @ ABC Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-10	CUB @ ABC Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB
1920-06-23	DTS @ ABC Gameday	0.1	2	3	3	2
1920-05-02	CHG @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-02	CHG @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-09	CUB @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-09	CUB @ ABC Gameday	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.