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Bob Johnson
Robert Lee Johnson (Indian Bob)

Bats Right, Throws Right
Height 6' 0", Weight 180 lb.

Debut April 12, 1933
Final Game September 23, 1945
Born November 26, 1905 in Pryor, OK
Died July 6, 1982 in Tacoma, WA

Brother of Roy Johnson

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Batting  Glossary / Neutralize Stats
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP 
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1933 27 PHA AL 142  535  103  155  44  4  21   93   8  3  85  74  .290  .387  .505  134  270   5           0     MVP-15
 1934 28 PHA AL 141  547  111  168  26  6  34   92  12  8  58  60  .307  .375  .563  143  308   3           1    
 1935 29 PHA AL 147  582  103  174  29  5  28  109   2  4  78  76  .299  .384  .510  130  297   2           2     AS
 1936 30 PHA AL 153  566   91  165  29 14  25  121   6  6  88  71  .292  .389  .525  125  297   1           2    
 1937 31 PHA AL 138  477   91  146  32  6  25  108   9  7  98  65  .306  .425  .556  147  265   0           1    
 1938 32 PHA AL 152  563  114  176  27  9  30  113   9  8  87  73  .313  .406  .552  141  311   0           2     MVP-17,AS
 1939 33 PHA AL 150  544  115  184  30  9  23  114  15  5  99  59  .338  .440  .553  155  301  10           0  12 MVP-8,AS
 1940 34 PHA AL 138  512   93  137  25  4  31  103   8  2  83  64  .268  .374  .514  129  263   1           4  20 AS
 1941 35 PHA AL 149  552   98  152  30  8  22  107   6  4  95  75  .275  .385  .478  129  264   3           3  16
 1942 36 PHA AL 149  550   78  160  35  7  13   80   3  2  82  61  .291  .384  .451  135  248   1           1  16 AS
 1943 37 WSH AL 117  438   65  116  22  8   7   63  11  5  64  50  .265  .362  .400  127  175   0           3  11 MVP-5,AS
 1944 38 BOS AL 144  525  106  170  40  8  17  106   2  7  95  67  .324  .431  .528  174  277   2           4  14 MVP-10,AS
 1945 39 BOS AL 143  529   71  148  27  7  12   74   5  3  63  56  .280  .358  .425  125  225   0           1  13 MVP-23,AS
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 13 Seasons         6920      2051     95     1283     64     851  .296  .393  .506  138       28   0   0  24 102
               1863      1239      396    288       96   1075                            3501
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 162 Game Avg        602  108  178  34  8  25  112   8  6  93  74  .296  .393  .506  138  304   2   0   0   2   9
 Career High    153  582  115  184  44 14  34  121  15  8  99  76  .338  .440  .563  174  311  10   0   0   4  20
Special Batting  Glossary
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  PA  Outs  RC  RC/G   AIR    BA *lgBA   OBP *lgOBP  SLG *lgSLG  OPS *lgOPS*OPS+  OWP *BtRns BtWin SB% 
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 1933 27 PHA AL  625  388  105   7.3   107| .290  .282| .387  .354| .505  .407| .892  .760| 134  .685  28.0   2.7  72%
 1934 28 PHA AL  609  390  113   7.7   108| .307  .283| .375  .356| .563  .408| .938  .764| 143  .688  31.6   2.9  60%
 1935 29 PHA AL  664  414  112   7.2   110| .299  .286| .384  .359| .510  .414| .894  .772| 130  .661  25.7   2.4  33%
 1936 30 PHA AL  657  408  113   7.4   120| .292  .296| .389  .371| .525  .435| .914  .806| 125  .627  21.4   1.9  50%
 1937 31 PHA AL  576  338  111   8.7   115| .306  .287| .425  .362| .556  .428| .981  .790| 147  .715  38.0   3.4  56%
 1938 32 PHA AL  652  395  124   8.2   116| .313  .286| .406  .365| .552  .427| .958  .791| 141  .694  35.5   3.2  52%
 1939 33 PHA AL  653  387  134   9.2   112| .338  .284| .440  .359| .553  .420| .993  .778| 155  .748  48.4   4.4  75%
 1940 34 PHA AL  600  398   98   6.5   109| .268  .277| .374  .349| .514  .420| .888  .769| 129  .624  22.9   2.1  80%
 1941 35 PHA AL  653  423  100   6.3   105| .275  .273| .385  .349| .478  .402| .863  .752| 129  .630  24.8   2.4  60%
 1942 36 PHA AL  634  409   95   6.2    94| .291  .264| .384  .339| .451  .370| .835  .709| 135  .681  27.7   2.9  60%
 1943 37 WSH AL  505  338   63   5.1    84| .265  .252| .362  .325| .400  .347| .762  .672| 127  .631  16.0   1.7  68%
 1944 38 BOS AL  626  378  116   8.3    91| .324  .267| .431  .334| .528  .364| .959  .698| 174  .789  55.6   5.7  22%
 1945 39 BOS AL  593  397   80   5.4    90| .280  .264| .358  .336| .425  .359| .783  .695| 125  .649  16.7   1.8  62%
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 13 Seasons     8047 5063 1364   7.2   105| .296  .277| .393  .351| .506  .401| .899  .752| 138  .682 392.4  37.5  60%

* indicates the value is park adjusted (now all 3-year factors)
Fielding  Glossary / Sort by Position, then Year
 Year Ag Tm  Lg Pos   G     PO    A    E   DP    FP   lgFP  RFg  lgRFg  RF9  lgRF9  LF   CF   RF
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+----+
+---- Fielding Sorted by Year ------+
1933 27 PHA AL OF 142 298 16 16 3 .952 .970 2.21 2.21 127 1 15 1934 28 PHA AL OF 139 304 17 11 3 .967 .968 2.31 2.16 139 0 0 1935 29 PHA AL OF 147 337 13 20 4 .946 .970 2.38 2.30 147 0 0 AS 1936 30 PHA AL OF 131 289 13 12 3 .962 .968 2.31 2.29 131 1 0 2B 22 51 69 7 20 .945 .972 5.45 5.58 1B 1 5 0 0 2 1.000 1.000 5.00 9.70 1937 31 PHA AL OF 133 313 14 8 3 .976 .969 2.46 2.28 129 6 0 2B 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 .952 1.00 5.30 1938 32 PHA AL OF 150 400 21 16 3 .963 .972 2.81 2.28 29 122 0 AS 2B 3 6 6 2 3 .857 .968 4.00 5.33 AS 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.10 AS 1939 33 PHA AL OF 150 369 15 13 3 .967 .969 2.56 2.35 138 14 0 AS 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.10 AS 1940 34 PHA AL OF 136 310 15 13 4 .962 .970 2.39 2.32 116 13 8 AS 1941 35 PHA AL OF 122 287 17 3 0 .990 .973 2.49 2.33 118 4 0 1B 28 254 18 5 29 .982 .990 9.71 9.64 1942 36 PHA AL OF 149 318 18 13 1 .963 .976 2.26 2.31 148 0 1 AS 1943 37 WSH AL OF 88 212 11 1 1 .996 .977 2.53 2.39 88 0 0 AS 3B 19 27 41 8 5 .895 .951 3.58 3.07 AS 1B 10 69 9 0 8 1.000 .991 7.80 9.83 AS 1944 38 BOS AL OF 142 270 23 7 3 .977 .974 2.06 2.35 142 0 0 AS 1945 39 BOS AL OF 140 296 15 8 4 .975 .978 2.22 2.27 140 1 0 AS
+---- Fielding Sorted by Position --+
1936 30 PHA AL 1B 1 5 0 0 2 1.000 1.000 5.00 9.70 1941 35 PHA AL 1B 28 254 18 5 29 .982 .990 9.71 9.64 1943 37 WSH AL 1B 10 69 9 0 8 1.000 .991 7.80 9.83 1936 30 PHA AL 2B 22 51 69 7 20 .945 .972 5.45 5.58 1937 31 PHA AL 2B 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 .952 1.00 5.30 1938 32 PHA AL 2B 3 6 6 2 3 .857 .968 4.00 5.33 1939 33 PHA AL 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.10 1938 32 PHA AL 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.10 1943 37 WSH AL 3B 19 27 41 8 5 .895 .951 3.58 3.07 1933 27 PHA AL OF 142 298 16 16 3 .952 .970 2.21 2.21 127 1 15 1934 28 PHA AL OF 139 304 17 11 3 .967 .968 2.31 2.16 139 0 0 1935 29 PHA AL OF 147 337 13 20 4 .946 .970 2.38 2.30 147 0 0 1936 30 PHA AL OF 131 289 13 12 3 .962 .968 2.31 2.29 131 1 0 1937 31 PHA AL OF 133 313 14 8 3 .976 .969 2.46 2.28 129 6 0 1938 32 PHA AL OF 150 400 21 16 3 .963 .972 2.81 2.28 29 122 0 1939 33 PHA AL OF 150 369 15 13 3 .967 .969 2.56 2.35 138 14 0 1940 34 PHA AL OF 136 310 15 13 4 .962 .970 2.39 2.32 116 13 8 1941 35 PHA AL OF 122 287 17 3 0 .990 .973 2.49 2.33 118 4 0 1942 36 PHA AL OF 149 318 18 13 1 .963 .976 2.26 2.31 148 0 1 1943 37 WSH AL OF 88 212 11 1 1 .996 .977 2.53 2.39 88 0 0 1944 38 BOS AL OF 142 270 23 7 3 .977 .974 2.06 2.35 142 0 0 1945 39 BOS AL OF 140 296 15 8 4 .975 .978 2.22 2.27 140 1 0
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+----+ Position Total OF 1769 4003 208 141 35 .968 .972 2.38 2.29 1592 162 24 1B 39 328 27 5 39 .986 .991 9.10 9.69 2B 28 58 76 9 23 .937 .971 4.79 5.52 3B 20 27 41 8 5 .895 .951 3.40 3.07 +--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+----+ Overall Total 1856 4416 352 163 102 .967 .973 2.57 2.51
An Important note about our fielding stats

All-Star Game Batting 

 Year   Tm  Lg  GS  AB  R   H  2B 3B HR RBI  BB  SO  SB CS  SH  SF HBP
+------+---+--+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+--+---+---+---+---------+
 1945   BOS AL       Was selected, but did not play in the game.
 1935   PHA AL   *   4   0   0  0  0  0   0   0   3   0  0   0   0   0 Starting LF 
 1938   PHA AL       1   0   0  0  0  0   0   0   1   0  0   0   0   0           
 1939   PHA AL       Was selected, but did not play in the game.
 1940   PHA AL       Was selected, but did not play in the game.
 1942   PHA AL       1   0   1  0  0  0   0   0   0   0  0   0   0   0           
 1943   WSH AL       0   0   0  0  0  0       0   0   0  0   0   0   0           
 1944   BOS AL   *   3   0   0  0  0  0   0   1   1   0  0   0   0   0 Starting LF 
+------+---+--+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+--+---+---+---+---------+
 Played 5/8      2   9   0   1  0  0  0   0   1   5   0  0   0   0   0  .111  .200  .111 
+-------------+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+
Appearances on Leaderboards and Awards   Glossary

Awards are Year-League-Award, Stats are Year-Value-Rank, (Pos) for All-Star indicates starter & * indicates they played.

All-Star
1935 (LF)
1938 *
1939
1940
1942 *
1943 *
1944 (LF)
1945

MVP (YrLg-Rk-Shr)
1933-AL-15-0.06
1938-AL-17-0.04
1939-AL-8-0.15
1943-AL-5-0.35
1944-AL-10-0.15
1945-AL-23-0.02
Car-295-0.77 shares

Batting Average
1939 AL-.338-3
1944 AL-.324-3

On-base %
1937 AL-.425-4
1939 AL-.440-5
1942 AL-.384-10
1944 AL-.431-1
Car-.393-85

Slugging %
1933 AL-.505-5
1934 AL-.563-6
1935 AL-.510-6
1937 AL-.556-7
1938 AL-.552-8
1939 AL-.553-6
1940 AL-.514-8
1942 AL-.451-8
1944 AL-.528-2
1945 AL-.425-6
Car-.506-79

OPS
1933 AL-.892-5
1934 AL-.938-8
1935 AL-.894-9
1937 AL-.981-7
1938 AL-.959-10
1939 AL-.993-6
1942 AL-.835-8
1944 AL-.959-1
1945 AL-.783-8
Car-.899-62

Games
1936 AL-153-9
1938 AL-152-5
1939 AL-150-7
1941 AL-149-10

Plate Appearances (approx.)
1939 AL-653-7

Runs
1933 AL-103-7
1934 AL-111-9
1939 AL-115-5
1944 AL-106-2

Hits
1939 AL-184-6
1944 AL-170-6

Total Bases
1933 AL-270-10
1934 AL-308-7
1935 AL-297-7
1936 AL-297-10
1938 AL-311-4
1939 AL-301-7
1944 AL-277-4
1945 AL-225-7

Doubles
1933 AL-44-2
1942 AL-35-5
1944 AL-40-3

Triples
1936 AL-14-4
1938 AL-9-9
1943 AL-8-7
1944 AL-8-10
1945 AL-7-8

Home Runs
1933 AL-21-4
1934 AL-34-4
1935 AL-28-4
1936 AL-25-6
1937 AL-25-9
1938 AL-30-6
1939 AL-23-8
1940 AL-31-4
1941 AL-22-10
1944 AL-17-6
1945 AL-12-9

RBI
1935 AL-109-7
1938 AL-113-9
1939 AL-114-3
1940 AL-103-8
1941 AL-107-6
1944 AL-106-2
1945 AL-74-7

Bases on Balls
1933 AL-85-8
1935 AL-78-10
1937 AL-98-4
1939 AL-99-5
1940 AL-83-10
1941 AL-95-5
1942 AL-82-8
1944 AL-95-2
Car-1075-78

Strikeouts
1933 AL-74-5
1934 AL-60-10
1935 AL-76-4
1936 AL-71-4
1937 AL-65-9
1938 AL-73-9
1939 AL-59-10
1941 AL-75-5
1942 AL-61-8
1944 AL-67-5

Stolen Bases
1934 AL-12-7

Adjusted OPS+
1933 AL-134-7
1934 AL-143-8
1935 AL-130-9
1937 AL-147-5
1938 AL-141-7
1939 AL-155-5
1940 AL-129-8
1942 AL-135-8
1943 AL-127-10
1944 AL-174-1
Car-138-84

Runs Created
1933 AL-105-9
1934 AL-113-9
1935 AL-112-8
1938 AL-124-4
1939 AL-134-4
1941 AL-100-10
1942 AL-95-9
1944 AL-116-2
1945 AL-80-7

Adjusted Batting Runs
1933 AL-28-5
1934 AL-32-8
1935 AL-26-8
1937 AL-38-5
1938 AL-36-4
1939 AL-48-4
1940 AL-23-9
1942 AL-28-8
1944 AL-56-1
Car-392-71

Batting Wins
1933 AL-2.7-5
1934 AL-2.9-8
1935 AL-2.4-8
1937 AL-3.4-5
1938 AL-3.2-4
1939 AL-4.4-4
1940 AL-2.1-9
1942 AL-2.9-8
1944 AL-5.7-1
Car-37.5-76

Extra-Base Hits
1933 AL-69-3
1934 AL-66-7
1935 AL-62-9
1938 AL-66-8
1939 AL-62-8
1942 AL-55-6
1944 AL-65-2
1945 AL-46-6

Times on Base
1935 AL-254-9
1938 AL-265-9
1939 AL-283-3
1944 AL-269-2
1945 AL-212-10

Offensive Win%
1933 AL-.685-5
1935 AL-.661-9
1937 AL-.715-8
1939 AL-.748-5
1942 AL-.681-8
1944 AL-.789-1

Hit By Pitch
1940 AL-4-5
1941 AL-3-10
1944 AL-4-9

Grounded into Double Plays
1940 AL-20-2
1941 AL-16-9
1942 AL-16-6
1945 AL-13-8

Caught Stealing
1934 AL-8-6
1937 AL-7-9
1938 AL-8-7

Power/Speed Number
1933 AL-11.6-7
1934 AL-17.7-1
1937 AL-13.2-4
1938 AL-13.8-6
1939 AL-18.2-1
1940 AL-12.7-6
1941 AL-9.4-10
1943 AL-8.6-7
1945 AL-7.1-7

At Bats per Home Run
1933 AL-25.5-4
1934 AL-16.1-3
1935 AL-20.8-4
1936 AL-22.6-7
1937 AL-19.1-8
1938 AL-18.8-8
1940 AL-16.5-4
1941 AL-25.1-9
1944 AL-30.9-4
1945 AL-44.1-7

Oldest Player
1943 AL-37-9

         

Gray Ink: Batting - 161 (71) (Average HOFer ≈ 144)
HOF Standards: Batting - 46.1 (92) (Average HOFer ≈ 50)
HOF Monitor: Batting - 91.5 (171) (Likely HOFer > 100)
Overall Rank in parentheses.

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Transactions 

March 21, 1943: Traded by the Philadelphia Athletics to the Washington Senators for Bobby Estalella and cash.

December 4, 1943: Purchased by the Boston Red Sox from the Washington Senators.

December 27, 1945: Released by the Boston Red Sox.


The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Last transaction is September 30, 2007.
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