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Jimmy Johnston

James Harle Johnston

Positions: Third Baseman, Outfielder and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: December 10, 1889 in Cleveland, TN (All Transactions)
Debut: May 3, 1911
Teams (by GP): Robins/Cubs/Giants/Braves/WhiteSox 1911-1926

Final Game: September 11, 1926
Died: February 14, 1967 in Chattanooga, TN
Buried: Forest Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, TN
Relatives: Brother of Doc Johnston
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Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G Awards
1911 CHW AL 21 OF 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .950 2.00 0-1-0
1914 CHC NL 24 OF 28 70 58 7 5 3 .929 2.32 .957 2.13 2-22-4
1914 CHC NL 24 2B 4 23 11 9 3 0 .870 5.00 .949 5.20
1916 BRO NL 26 OF 106 249 224 16 9 3 .964 2.26 .967 2.15 8-45-55
1917 BRO NL 27 OF 66 165 150 8 7 1 .958 2.39 .963 2.20 37-24-5
1917 BRO NL 27 1B 14 125 106 14 5 3 .960 8.57 .988 10.92
1917 BRO NL 27 SS 4 12 7 2 3 1 .750 2.25 .931 5.35
1917 BRO NL 27 2B 3 21 6 13 2 0 .905 6.33 .956 5.33
1917 BRO NL 27 3B 3 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3.23
1918 BRO NL 28 OF 96 99 94 205 178 18 9 6 .956 2.04 .962 2.26 20-5-75
1918 BRO NL 28 RF 74 74 72 140 123 13 4 4 .971 1.84 .962 1.86
1918 BRO NL 28 1B 21 20 19 217 197 16 4 11 .982 10.14 .987 11.24
1918 BRO NL 28 LF 20 20 19 52 44 5 3 1 .942 2.45 .965 2.22
1918 BRO NL 28 CF 6 5 3 15 12 1 2 1 .867 2.17 .960 2.72
1918 BRO NL 28 3B 4 3 3 18 5 13 0 0 1.000 4.50 .949 3.40
1918 BRO NL 28 2B 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 1 1.000 3.00 .957 5.40
1919 BRO NL 29 2B 87 87 85 470 157 294 19 30 .960 5.18 .960 5.43
1919 BRO NL 29 OF 14 10 9 25 24 0 1 0 .960 1.71 .964 2.26
1919 BRO NL 29 CF 8 6 6 16 16 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .968 2.60
1919 BRO NL 29 RF 5 4 3 8 7 0 1 0 .875 1.40 .959 2.00
1919 BRO NL 29 1B 2 2 2 20 18 2 0 1 1.000 10.00 .988 11.25
1919 BRO NL 29 LF 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .970 2.20
1919 BRO NL 29 SS 1 0 0 8 2 6 0 0 1.000 8.00 .942 5.70
1920 BRO NL 30 3B 146 146 144 472 159 282 31 21 .934 3.02 .947 3.16
1920 BRO NL 30 OF 7 7 7 12 10 1 1 1 .917 1.57 .964 2.34
1920 BRO NL 30 RF 7 7 7 12 10 1 1 1 .917 1.57 .961 2.09
1920 BRO NL 30 SS 3 2 2 8 2 6 0 0 1.000 2.67 .941 5.73
1921 BRO NL 31 3B 150 150 144 507 162 312 33 34 .935 3.16 .941 3.06
1921 BRO NL 31 SS 3 2 2 17 6 9 2 2 .882 5.00 .951 5.87
1922 BRO NL 32 2B 62 62 60 393 162 210 21 36 .947 6.00 .961 5.76
1922 BRO NL 32 SS 50 50 49 307 102 189 16 34 .948 5.82 .945 5.78
1922 BRO NL 32 3B 26 25 23 76 36 35 5 1 .934 2.73 .948 3.05
1923 BRO NL 33 2B 84 84 79 540 221 291 28 49 .948 6.10 .959 5.90
1923 BRO NL 33 SS 52 52 51 370 135 215 20 30 .946 6.73 .939 5.80
1923 BRO NL 33 3B 14 14 14 42 13 26 3 1 .929 2.79 .947 3.09
1924 BRO NL 34 SS 63 63 55 361 136 203 22 32 .939 5.38 .949 5.76 MVP-18
1924 BRO NL 34 3B 10 10 10 29 12 15 2 0 .931 2.70 .956 2.93 MVP-18
1924 BRO NL 34 1B 4 1 1 23 22 1 0 0 1.000 5.75 .989 10.72 MVP-18
1924 BRO NL 34 OF 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .960 2.40 MVP-18
1924 BRO NL 34 RF 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .970 2.10 MVP-18
1925 BRO NL 35 3B 81 80 76 210 76 110 24 10 .886 2.30 .939 2.98
1925 BRO NL 35 OF 20 21 18 40 31 3 6 1 .850 1.70 .967 2.48
1925 BRO NL 35 RF 19 19 16 35 27 3 5 1 .857 1.58 .967 2.27
1925 BRO NL 35 1B 8 6 6 89 81 5 3 4 .966 10.75 .989 10.32
1925 BRO NL 35 LF 2 2 2 8 6 0 2 0 .750 3.00 .968 2.25
1925 BRO NL 35 SS 2 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 .667 1.00 .943 5.75
1926 TOT NL 36 OF 15 12 5 14 14 0 0 0 1.000 0.93 .964 2.42
1926 BSN NL 36 3B 14 12 11 37 10 22 5 3 .865 2.29 .953 2.99
1926 BSN NL 36 2B 2 0 0 3 1 2 0 0 1.000 1.50 .967 5.80
1926 BSN NL 36 LF 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .960 2.20
1926 BSN NL 36 OF 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .960 2.40
1926 NYG NL 36 OF 14 12 5 13 13 0 0 0 1.000 0.93 .965 2.42
1926 NYG NL 36 CF 7 6 4 9 9 0 0 0 1.000 1.29 .964 2.86
1926 NYG NL 36 RF 6 6 1 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 0.67 .968 2.22
9 Seasons 3B 448 440 425 1391 473 815 103 70 .926 2.88 .944 3.08
10 Seasons OF 354 149 133 782 691 53 38 15 .951 2.10 .964 2.23 91-118-251
7 Seasons 2B 243 233 224 1453 560 820 73 116 .950 5.68 .960 5.67
8 Seasons SS 178 169 159 1086 391 631 64 99 .941 5.74 .944 5.77
6 Seasons (incomplete) RF 112 110 99 200 172 17 11 6 .945 1.69 .963 1.97
5 Seasons 1B 49 29 28 474 424 38 12 19 .975 9.43 .988 10.96
4 Seasons (incomplete) LF 24 22 21 62 52 5 5 1 .919 2.38 .965 2.22
3 Seasons (incomplete) CF 21 17 13 40 37 1 2 1 .950 1.81 .964 2.72
13 Seasons TOT 1272 1020 969 5186 2539 2357 290 319 .944 3.85 .955 4.02 91-118-251
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
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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

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1911 CHW AL 21 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
1914 CHC NL 24 50 50 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 22 4 28 0
1916 BRO NL 26 118 118 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 45 55 106 0
1917 BRO NL 27 103 103 0 0 14 3 3 4 37 24 5 66 0
1918 BRO NL 28 123 123 0 0 21 1 4 0 20 5 75 96 0
1919 BRO NL 29 116 99 116 102 0 0 2 87 0 1 1 8 5 13 0 9 5
1920 BRO NL 30 155 155 155 155 0 0 0 0 146 3 0 0 7 7 0 0 0
1921 BRO NL 31 152 152 152 152 0 0 0 0 150 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1922 BRO NL 32 138 137 138 138 0 0 0 62 26 51 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1923 BRO NL 33 151 150 151 150 0 0 0 85 14 52 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1924 BRO NL 34 86 74 86 78 0 0 4 0 10 63 0 0 1 1 0 8 0
1925 BRO NL 35 123 107 123 109 0 0 8 0 80 2 2 0 19 21 0 14 0
1926 NYG NL 36 37 12 37 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 6 13 0 23 1
1926 BSN NL 36 24 12 24 18 0 0 0 2 15 0 1 0 0 1 0 6 0
13 Seasons 1377 898 1377 915 0 0 49 244 448 179 71 112 177 353 0 61 6
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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1924 NL (18, 4%)
0.04 Career Shares (1177th)

Assists† s c a p y
1923 NL  532 (1st)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1921 NL  35 (5th)
1922 NL  42 (4th)
1923 NL  51 (2nd)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1919 NL  19 (4th)
1923 NL  28 (3rd)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1920 NL  146 (3rd)
1921 NL  150 (2nd)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1920 NL  159 (4th)
1921 NL  162 (2nd)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1920 NL  282 (2nd)
1921 NL  312 (1st)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1920 NL  31 (2nd)
1921 NL  33 (1st)
1925 NL  24 (3rd)

Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1918 NL  13 (5th)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1918 NL  18 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1923 NL  6.10 (1st)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1919 NL  .960 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1920 NL  3.02 (5th)
1921 NL  3.16 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1918 NL  1.84 (4th)

Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1918 NL  .971 (5th)

             

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