MLB / Players

Syl Johnson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb

BornDecember 31, 1900 · Portland, OR, USA

MLB debutApril 24, 1922

Final gameSeptember 14, 1940

Seasons19 (1922–1940)

Detroit Tigers 1922–1925; St. Louis Cardinals 1926–1933; Cincinnati Reds 1934; Philadelphia Phillies 1934–1940

Percentile snapshot

1935 season — qualified pitchers

65.3

34.7

51.6

97.9

33.7

SHO

33.7

182

61.1

81.1

76.8

21.1

174.7

44.2

ERA

3.56

69.5

WHIP

1.219

89.5

K/9

4.59

72.6

FIP

3.70

84.2

FIP-

82.9

89.5

ERA+

125.7

75.8

sWAR

3.7

75.8

of 96 qualified 1935 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

104.2

54.4

sWAR

24.2

95.1

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1922	29	37	36	5	8	0	1	0	1	0	10	0	.222	.222	.278	.500	20.5	30.8	.228	1.2
1923	37	66	62	6	10	1	2	1	5	1	19	0	.161	.188	.290	.478	14.0	25.3	.219	1.6
1924	29	38	34	1	7	2	0	0	3	2	6	0	.206	.250	.265	.515	27.6	32.9	.247	0.2
1925	6	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-117.7	-100.0	.000	0.2
1926	19	12	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.6	-100.0	.000	0.1
1927	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1928	34	42	38	5	6	1	0	0	1	3	18	0	.158	.238	.184	.422	9.3	11.6	.213	1.3
1929	42	64	60	4	7	2	1	1	5	1	23	0	.117	.131	.233	.364	-23.6	-11.6	.159	3.6
1930	32	75	70	9	15	4	0	0	5	4	28	1	.214	.257	.271	.528	25.0	27.0	.243	2.6
1931	32	64	60	4	14	2	1	0	7	3	16	0	.233	.270	.300	.570	45.5	51.4	.265	4.1
1932	32	54	51	0	10	1	0	0	5	0	13	0	.196	.196	.216	.412	-2.3	9.6	.185	-0.2
1933	35	22	21	0	5	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	.238	.238	.238	.476	21.5	33.9	.221	0.0
1934	44	48	43	9	9	1	0	1	5	3	13	0	.209	.261	.302	.563	33.9	41.6	.261	3.3
1935	37	66	58	6	14	2	0	1	7	2	12	0	.241	.267	.328	.594	43.3	50.6	.270	3.7
1936	39	36	36	1	9	1	0	0	3	0	7	0	.250	.250	.278	.528	22.3	34.4	.242	1.3
1937	32	50	48	1	7	1	0	0	3	0	15	0	.146	.146	.167	.313	-37.8	-18.6	.143	-0.1
1938	22	32	29	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	10	0	.034	.097	.034	.131	-78.9	-63.3	.078	0.2
1939	22	39	33	0	5	0	0	0	2	2	11	0	.152	.200	.152	.352	-13.8	-4.5	.175	1.2
1940	17	9	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.1	-100.0	.000	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1922	29	8	7	3	1	3	0	99	40	30	29	7	97.0	3.71	1.330	2.69	4.34	109.6	106.6	1.2
1923	37	18	12	7	0	7	0	181	78	47	93	12	176.3	3.98	1.293	4.75	3.59	91.2	98.7	1.6
1924	29	9	5	4	3	2	0	117	57	42	55	8	104.0	4.93	1.529	4.76	4.42	104.9	85.5	0.2
1925	6	0	0	2	0	0	0	11	5	10	5	1	13.0	3.46	1.615	3.46	5.64	129.6	125.8	0.2
1926	19	6	0	3	1	1	0	54	23	15	10	3	49.0	4.22	1.408	1.84	4.34	110.6	92.8	0.1
1927	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	2	1	3.0	6.00	1.000	6.00	5.99	151.0	66.1	0.0
1928	34	6	8	4	3	2	0	117	52	33	66	6	120.0	3.90	1.250	4.95	3.25	81.4	102.3	1.3
1929	42	19	13	7	3	12	3	186	73	56	80	11	182.3	3.60	1.327	3.95	4.25	90.4	130.6	3.6
1930	32	24	12	10	2	9	2	215	97	38	92	13	187.7	4.65	1.348	4.41	4.14	82.1	108.4	2.6
1931	32	24	11	9	2	12	2	186	62	29	82	9	186.0	3.00	1.156	3.97	3.22	81.5	131.6	4.1
1932	32	22	5	14	2	7	0	199	90	35	70	14	164.7	4.92	1.421	3.83	3.88	98.1	80.3	-0.2
1933	35	1	3	3	3	0	0	89	40	16	28	7	84.0	4.29	1.250	3.00	3.66	105.9	80.7	0.0
1934	44	10	5	9	3	4	3	131	54	24	54	16	140.3	3.46	1.105	3.46	4.33	94.7	132.8	3.3
1935	37	18	10	8	6	8	1	182	69	31	89	15	174.7	3.56	1.219	4.59	3.70	82.9	125.7	3.7
1936	39	8	5	7	7	1	0	129	53	29	48	10	111.0	4.30	1.423	3.89	4.21	94.1	104.3	1.3
1937	32	15	4	10	3	4	0	155	77	22	46	20	138.0	5.02	1.283	3.00	4.69	111.0	84.2	-0.1
1938	22	6	2	7	0	2	0	87	39	11	21	4	83.0	4.23	1.181	2.28	3.25	82.5	93.2	0.2
1939	22	14	8	8	2	6	0	112	47	15	37	10	111.0	3.81	1.144	3.00	3.75	95.3	103.1	1.2
1940	17	2	2	2	2	2	0	37	19	5	13	6	40.7	4.20	1.033	2.88	4.40	115.1	90.8	0.1

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

542

757

702

127

RBI

214

.1809

OBP

.2091

SLG

.2379

OPS

.4470

Pitching

G (P)

542

355th-most career G (P)

210

112

117

364th-most career L

420th-most career SV

SHO

2,166

362nd-most career IP

SO (P)

920

BB allowed

488

ERA

4.060

WHIP

1.2827

481st-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.82

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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1931-04-22	CIN @ STL Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	0	4
1923-09-19	DET @ ATH Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	4
1929-07-16	STL @ SF Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	4
1934-04-29	CIN @ PIT Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	2	4
1935-08-09	SF @ PHI Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1935-05-19	PHI @ CHC Gameday	8.1	4	0	0	1	10	0
1930-08-28	STL @ CHC Gameday	12.0	9	2	2	1	9	0
1928-05-06	LAD @ STL Gameday	8.0	5	2	2	0	9	1
1932-08-19	PHI @ STL Gameday	11.0	9	4	3	5	8	0
1932-08-13	CHC @ STL Gameday	9.0	9	3	3	2	8	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.