Johnny Cooney

John Walter Cooney

Positions: Centerfielder, Pitcher and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Left
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: March 18, 1901 in Cranston, RI
High School: Cranston HS (Cranston, RI)(All Transactions)
Debut: April 19, 1921
Teams (by GP): Braves/Bees/Dodgers/Yankees 1921-1944

Final Game: July 30, 1944
Died: July 8, 1986 in Sarasota, FL
Buried: Manasota Memorial Park, Sarasota, FL
Relatives: Brother of Jimmy Cooney and Son of Jimmy Cooney
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Standard Pitching

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	Awards
1921	20	BSN	NL	0	1	.000	3.92	8	1	3	0	0	0	20.2	19	12	9	3	10	9	0	0	0	90	94	1.403	8.3	1.3	4.4	3.9	0.90
1922	21	NHV	A	19	3	.864	1.94	23						195.0	157	54	42		37							0.995	7.2		1.7			NHV · EL
1922	21	BSN	NL	1	2	.333	2.16	4	3	1	1	0	0	25.0	19	10	6	0	6	7	1	0	0	99	187	1.000	6.8	0.0	2.2	2.5	1.17
1923	22	BSN	NL	3	5	.375	3.31	23	8	12	5	2	0	98.0	92	43	36	3	22	23	3	1	2	406	120	1.163	8.4	0.3	2.0	2.1	1.05
1924	23	BSN	NL	8	9	.471	3.18	34	19	12	12	2	2	181.0	176	79	64	4	50	67	4	1	2	753	119	1.249	8.8	0.2	2.5	3.3	1.34
1925	24	BSN	NL	14	14	.500	3.48	31	29	2	20	2	0	245.2	267	123	95	18	50	65	3	0	1	1047	115	1.290	9.8	0.7	1.8	2.4	1.30
1926	25	BSN	NL	3	3	.500	4.00	19	8	11	3	1	0	83.1	106	52	37	0	29	23	7	0	1	386	88	1.620	11.4	0.0	3.1	2.5	0.79

1928	27	BSN	NL	3	7	.300	4.32	24	5	13	2	0	1	89.2	106	47	43	7	31	18	0	0	0	389	89	1.528	10.6	0.7	3.1	1.8	0.58
1929	28	BSN	NL	2	3	.400	5.00	14	2	10	1	0	3	45.0	57	29	25	4	22	11	0	0	0	210	94	1.756	11.4	0.8	4.4	2.2	0.50
1930	29	JER,NWK	AA	0	1	.000	3.75	8						12.0	12	5	5		2							1.167	9.0		1.5			JER,NWK · IL
1930	29	BSN	NL	0	0		18.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	7.0	16	14	14	2	3	1	1	0	0	41	29	2.714	20.6	2.6	3.9	1.3	0.33
1931	30	TOL	AA	10	7	.588	2.49	25						166.0	172	66	46		36							1.253	9.3		2.0			TOL · AA
1932	31	INA	AA	10	6	.625	3.52	37						174.0	205	88	68		40							1.408	10.6		2.1			INA · AA
1933	32	INA	AA	2	1	.667	5.40	6						20.0	26	13	12		11							1.850	11.7		5.0			INA · AA
9 Yrs				34	44	.436	3.72	159	75	66	44	7	6	795.1	858	409	329	41	223	224	19	2	6	3421	106	1.359	9.7	0.5	2.5	2.5	1.00
162 Game Avg.				10	13	.436	3.72	46	22	19	13	2	2	231	249	119	96	12	65	65	6	1	2	994	106	1.359	9.7	0.5	2.5	2.5	1.00

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	IP	G	GS	R	RA9	RA9opp	RA9def	RA9role	PPFp	RA9avg	RAA	WAA	gmLI	WAAadj	WAR	RAR	waaWL%	162WL%	Salary
1921	20	BSN	NL	20.2	8	1	12	5.23	4.86	0.05	0.00	93.6	4.50	-2	-0.2	1.0	-0.0	0.0	0	.480	.499	$
1922	21	BSN	NL	25.0	4	3	10	3.60	5.00	-0.17	0.00	94.1	4.86	3	0.3	1.0	-0.0	0.5	6	.584	.502	$
1923	22	BSN	NL	98.0	23	8	43	3.95	4.91	-0.24	0.00	103.4	5.33	15	1.5	1.0	-0.1	2.2	25	.565	.509	$
1924	23	BSN	NL	181.0	34	19	79	3.93	4.74	-0.16	0.00	99.4	4.87	20	2.1	1.0	-0.1	3.5	36	.563	.513	$
1925	24	BSN	NL	245.2	31	29	123	4.51	5.09	0.06	0.00	93.1	4.68	4	0.4	1.0	-0.1	2.2	31	.514	.503	$
1926	25	BSN	NL	83.1	19	8	52	5.62	4.59	-0.23	0.00	92.4	4.46	-11	-1.0	1.0	-0.0	-0.4	-3	.445	.494	$

1928	27	BSN	NL	90.2	24	5	47	4.67	4.85	-0.23	0.00	95.0	4.83	2	0.2	1.0	-0.0	0.9	11	.508	.501	$
1929	28	BSN	NL	45.0	14	2	29	5.80	5.53	-0.11	0.00	97.9	5.52	-2	-0.1	1.0	-0.0	0.2	4	.490	.499	$
1930	29	BSN	NL	7.0	2	0	14	18.00	6.12	0.06	0.00	98.0	5.94	-9	-0.6	1.0	-0.0	-0.5	-9	.211	.496	$
9 Seasons				796.1	159	75	409	4.62	4.93	-0.11	0.00	96.3	4.86	21	2.7	1.0	-0.4	8.6	103	.517	.502	$

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	IP%
1921	20	BSN	NL	90	3.3%	10.0%	11.1%			74%
1922	21	BSN	NL	99	0.0%	7.1%	6.1%			85%
1923	22	BSN	NL	406	0.7%	5.7%	5.4%	1.7%	8%	86%
1924	23	BSN	NL	753	0.5%	8.9%	6.6%	3.5%	15%	81%
1925	24	BSN	NL	1047	1.7%	6.2%	4.8%	6.4%	25%	85%
1926	25	BSN	NL	386	0.0%	6.0%	7.5%	1.8%	7%	80%

1928	27	BSN	NL	389	1.8%	4.6%	8.0%	2.8%	10%	84%
1929	28	BSN	NL	210	1.9%	5.2%	10.5%	3.3%	12%	79%
1930	29	BSN	NL	41	4.9%	2.4%	7.3%			76%
9 Yrs				3421	1.2%	6.6%	6.5%	3.7%	15%	83%
MLB Averages					1.2%	8.1%	8.2%	3.0%	12%	80%

Cumulative Pitching

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	ERA+
1921	20	0	1	.000	3.92	8	1	3	0	0	0	20.2	19	12	9	3	10	9	0	0	0	90	94	1.403	8.3	1.3	4.4	3.9	0.90	94
1922	21	1	3	.250	2.96	12	4	4	1	0	0	45.2	38	22	15	3	16	16	1	0	0	189	131	1.182	7.5	0.6	3.2	3.2	1.00	131
1923	22	4	8	.333	3.19	35	12	16	6	2	0	143.2	130	65	51	6	38	39	4	1	2	595	123	1.169	8.1	0.4	2.4	2.4	1.03	123
1924	23	12	17	.414	3.19	69	31	28	18	4	2	324.2	306	144	115	10	88	106	8	2	4	1348	121	1.214	8.5	0.3	2.4	2.9	1.20	121
1925	24	26	31	.456	3.31	100	60	30	38	6	2	570.1	573	267	210	28	138	171	11	2	5	2395	119	1.247	9.0	0.4	2.2	2.7	1.24	119
1926	25	29	34	.460	3.40	119	68	41	41	7	2	653.2	679	319	247	28	167	194	18	2	6	2781	114	1.294	9.3	0.4	2.3	2.7	1.16	114
1927	26	29	34	.460	3.40	119	68	41	41	7	2	653.2	679	319	247	28	167	194	18	2	6	2781	114	1.294	9.3	0.4	2.3	2.7	1.16	114
1928	27	32	41	.438	3.51	143	73	54	43	7	3	743.1	785	366	290	35	198	212	18	2	6	3170	110	1.322	9.5	0.4	2.4	2.6	1.07	110
1929	28	34	44	.436	3.60	157	75	64	44	7	6	788.1	842	395	315	39	220	223	18	2	6	3380	109	1.347	9.6	0.4	2.5	2.5	1.01	109
1930	29	34	44	.436	3.72	159	75	66	44	7	6	795.1	858	409	329	41	223	224	19	2	6	3421	106	1.359	9.7	0.5	2.5	2.5	1.00	106

Neutralized Pitching

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Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	WHIP	H/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	HR/9	Gact
1921	20	1	1	.500	3.86	21.0	20	10	9	3	11	9	0	1.476	8.6	4.7	3.9	0.82	1.3	8
1922	21	2	0	1.000	2.08	26.0	19	7	6	0	6	7	1	0.962	6.6	2.1	2.4	1.17	0.0	4
1923	22	7	4	.636	3.06	103.0	93	39	35	3	22	24	3	1.117	8.1	1.9	2.1	1.09	0.3	23
1924	23	12	8	.600	3.28	184.0	184	74	67	4	52	68	4	1.283	9.0	2.5	3.3	1.31	0.2	34
1925	24	17	11	.607	3.21	261.0	273	103	93	18	51	69	3	1.241	9.4	1.8	2.4	1.35	0.6	31
1926	25	4	5	.444	4.45	83.0	114	46	41	0	31	23	8	1.747	12.4	3.4	2.5	0.74	0.0	19

1928	27	4	5	.444	4.45	89.0	110	49	44	7	32	18	0	1.596	11.1	3.2	1.8	0.56	0.7	24
1929	28	2	3	.400	4.13	48.0	55	24	22	4	21	12	0	1.583	10.3	3.9	2.3	0.57	0.8	14
1930	29	0	0		13.50	8.0	15	13	12	2	3	1	1	2.250	16.9	3.4	1.1	0.33	2.3	2
9 Yrs		49	37	.570	3.60	823.0	883	365	329	41	229	231	20	1.351	9.7		2.5	1.01	0.4	159

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1937 NL (17, 5%) 1940 NL (11, 9%) 1941 NL (15, 6%) 0.20 Career Shares (738th)	WAR for Pitchers† s c a p y 1924 NL 3.5 (5th)	Earned Run Average s c a p y 1925 NL 3.48 (8th)	Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y 1925 NL 1.290 (8th)
Hits per 9 IP s c a p y 1924 NL 8.751 (7th)	Bases On Balls per 9 IP s c a p y 1925 NL 1.832 (4th)	Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y 1924 NL 3.332 (7th)	Saves s c a p y 1924 NL 2 (10th)
Innings Pitched s c a p y 1925 NL 245.7 (8th)	Complete Games s c a p y 1925 NL 20 (6th)	Shutouts s c a p y 1923 NL 2 (10th) 1925 NL 2 (5th)	Home Runs s c a p y 1925 NL 18 (4th)
Hits s c a p y 1925 NL 267 (8th)	Strikeouts / Base On Balls s c a p y 1925 NL 1.300 (10th)	Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y 1924 NL 0.199 (5th)	Losses s c a p y 1925 NL 14 (9th)
Hit By Pitch s c a p y 1926 NL 7 (5th)	Batters Faced s c a p y 1925 NL 1,047 (8th)	Games Finished s c a p y 1928 NL 13 (9th)	Oldest s c a p y 1938 NL born 1901-03-18 (10th) 1939 NL born 1901-03-18 (6th) 1940 NL born 1901-03-18 (5th) 1941 NL born 1901-03-18 (3rd) 1942 NL born 1901-03-18 (1st) 1943 NL born 1901-03-18 (1st) 1944 AL born 1901-03-18 (2nd) 1944 NL born 1901-03-18 (2nd)
Youngest s c a p y 1921 NL born 1901-03-18 (5th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Pitching - 18 (1146), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 5 (1383), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

Similar Pitchers

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Most Similar by Ages

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Bob Rhoads (985) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Carl Weilman (982) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Hank Thormahlen (977) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Vern Olsen (979) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Dave Roberts (977) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Paul Minner (979) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Red Oldham (973) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

* - Signifies Hall of Famer

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