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Billy Johnson

William Russell Johnson (Bull)

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: August 30, 1918 in Montclair, NJ
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1936. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 22, 1943
Teams (by GP): Yankees/Cardinals 1943-1953

Final Game: May 10, 1953
Died: June 20, 2006 in Augusta, GA
Buried: Westover Memorial Park, Augusta, GA
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1943 NYY AL 24 3B 155 155 155 527 183 326 18 32 .966 3.28 .951 3.17 MVP-4
1946 NYY AL 27 3B 74 71 68 245 71 163 11 15 .955 3.16 .948 3.06
1947 NYY AL 28 3B 132 129 128 357 136 204 17 12 .952 2.58 .959 3.01 AS,MVP-19
1948 NYY AL 29 3B 118 116 113 380 147 213 20 25 .947 3.05 .958 3.04
1949 NYY AL 30 3B 81 68 65 224 77 136 11 16 .951 2.63 .960 3.15
1949 NYY AL 30 1B 21 16 13 142 130 10 2 10 .986 6.67 .989 9.77
1949 NYY AL 30 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.50
1950 NYY AL 31 3B 100 82 73 763.1 262 82 169 11 20 .958 2.96 2.51 .960 3.25 3.20
1950 NYY AL 31 1B 5 2 2 21.0 15 14 0 1 1 .933 6.00 2.80 .989 9.56 9.36
1951 TOT MLB 32 3B 137 131 129 1190.2 450 107 332 11 32 .976 3.32 3.20 .953 3.35 3.34
1951 NYY AL 32 3B 13 10 10 103.0 25 8 16 1 0 .960 2.10 1.85 .950 3.17 3.15
1951 STL NL 32 3B 124 121 119 1087.2 425 99 316 10 32 .976 3.43 3.35 .953 3.37 3.36
1952 STL NL 33 3B 89 80 74 712.0 245 56 177 12 10 .951 2.95 2.62 .954 3.15 3.12
1953 STL NL 34 3B 11 0 0 22.0 9 1 8 0 1 1.000 1 38 3.68 0.82 .951 3.03 2.98
9 Seasons 3B 897 832 805 2688.0 2699 860 1728 111 163 .959 1 0 3.12 2.89 .955 3.27 3.14
2 Seasons 1B 26 18 15 21.0 157 144 10 3 11 .981 6.00 5.92 .989 9.56 9.69
1 Season 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.50
9 Seasons TOT 924 850 820 2709.0 2856 1004 1738 114 174 .960 1 0 3.14 2.97 .957 3.32 3.33
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1943 NYY AL 24 3B
1946 NYY AL 27 3B
1947 NYY AL 28 3B
1948 NYY AL 29 3B
1949 NYY AL 30 3B
1949 NYY AL 30 1B
1949 NYY AL 30 2B
1950 NYY AL 31 3B
1950 NYY AL 31 1B
1951 NYY AL 32 3B
1951 STL NL 32 3B
1952 STL NL 33 3B
1953 STL NL 34 3B 1 38 1 0 1 0
9 Seasons 3B 1 0 1 0 1 0
2 Seasons 1B
1 Season 2B
9 Seasons TOT 1 0 1 0 1 0

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1943 NYY AL 24 155 155 155 155 0 0 0 0 155 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1946 NYY AL 27 85 71 85 75 0 0 0 0 75 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1947 NYY AL 28 132 129 132 132 0 0 0 0 132 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1948 NYY AL 29 127 116 127 118 0 0 0 0 118 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0
1949 NYY AL 30 113 84 113 101 0 0 21 1 81 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 1
1950 NYY AL 31 108 84 108 104 0 0 5 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1951 STL NL 32 124 121 124 124 0 0 0 0 124 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1951 NYY AL 32 15 10 15 13 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1952 STL NL 33 94 80 94 89 0 0 0 0 89 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1953 STL NL 34 11 0 11 11 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Seasons 964 850 964 922 0 0 26 1 898 0 0 0 0 0 0 63 1
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1948 NYY AL 29 1888 59% 81% 22% 159 87% 0 67 53 4 10 87 66 18 1 3 16 0 14 2 10 9 5 0 7 1 1 0 11 82%
1949 NYY AL 30 1880 56% 77% 25% 143 94% 4 55 37 5 13 94 67 24 1 3 5 1 4 0 4 12 10 0 11 1 0 1 8 88%
1950 NYY AL 31 2888 63% 77% 23% 218 88% 1 69 54 5 10 136 105 28 1 6 9 0 6 3 6 15 14 1 15 0 0 0 11 73%
1951 STL NL 32 3304 69% 83% 28% 285 92% 1 68 51 6 11 212 169 37 1 11 9 0 7 2 8 22 17 0 20 2 1 0 7 86%
1951 NYY AL 32 441 61% 76% 26% 25 88% 0 8 7 1 0 15 14 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100%
1952 STL NL 33 1783 66% 79% 29% 151 89% 2 37 26 4 7 106 82 21 0 4 7 1 3 3 5 7 5 0 5 0 0 0 6 50%
1953 STL NL 34 66 64% 83% 30% 5 80% 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons 12250 63% 79% 26% 986 90% 8 304 228 25 51 654 506 130 4 27 47 2 35 10 34 65 51 1 58 4 2 1 44 77%
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 89% 69%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1949 NYY AL 30 550 56% 72% 23% 34 91% 0 113 7 105 1 17 8 4 2 2 1 2 0 2 0 2 10 1 0 0 10 2 0 0 0 5 100%
1950 NYY AL 31 104 51% 82% 19% 5 80% 0 15 1 14 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons 654 55% 74% 23% 39 90% 0 128 8 119 1 20 8 4 2 2 1 3 0 3 0 3 11 1 0 0 11 2 0 0 0 5 100%
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 93% 85%

Advanced Fielding -- 2B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 643 543 463 43 GB GBs GBr LD LDs LDf
1949 NYY AL 30 3 33% 67% 33% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 3 33% 67% 33% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 93%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
1947 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1943 AL (4, 40%)
1947 AL (19, 3%)
0.43 Career Shares (489th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1943 AL  155 (1st)
1947 AL  132 (5th)
1951 NL  124 (5th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1943 AL  183 (1st)
1946 AL  71 (4th)
1947 AL  136 (5th)
1948 AL  147 (4th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1943 AL  326 (1st)
1946 AL  163 (4th)
1951 NL  316 (2nd)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1943 AL  18 (5th)
1946 AL  11 (5th)
1947 AL  17 (3rd)
1948 AL  20 (2nd)
1950 AL  11 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1951 NL  3.43 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1943 AL  3.28 (2nd)
1948 AL  3.05 (1st)
1951 NL  3.35 (2nd)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1943 AL  .966 (3rd)
1950 AL  .958 (5th)
1951 NL  .976 (1st)
Career  .959 (66th)

                                         

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