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Tim Johnson

Timothy Evald Johnson

Positions: Shortstop, Second Baseman and Third Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: July 22, 1949 in Grand Forks, ND
Signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1967. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 24, 1973
Teams (by GP): Brewers/BlueJays 1973-1979

Final Game: September 28, 1979
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Standard Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
1968	18	LAD-min	A	134	494	494		111	22	2	2						.225	.225	.289	.514		143							BAK · CALL
1969	19	LAD-min	AA	92	344	328	33	81	8	2	1	24	8	7	16	73	.247	.282	.293	.575		96							ABQ · TL
1970	20	LAD-min	AA	102	361	361		95	17	8	6						.263	.263	.404	.668		146							ABQ · TL
1971	21	LAD-min	AAA	98	351	305	38	75	10	1	2	20	3	1	39	61	.246	.330	.305	.634		93		1	2	4			SPO · PCL
1972	22	LAD-min	AA	112	447	409	46	99	11	3	6	35	6	6	23	109	.242	.293	.328	.620		134		8	3	4			ELP · TL
1973	23	LAD-min	AAA	8	30	27	2	7	0	0	0	4	0	0	3	3	.259	.333	.259	.593		7		0	0	0			ABQ · PCL
1973	23	MIL	AL	136	510	465	39	99	10	2	0	32	6	3	29	93	.213	.259	.243	.502	44	113	10	1	11	4	2	*6
1974	24	MIL	AL	93	265	245	25	60	7	7	0	25	4	3	11	48	.245	.278	.331	.609	76	81	2	1	6	2	1	64/5D7
1975	25	MIL	AL	38	94	85	6	12	1	0	0	2	3	0	6	17	.141	.198	.153	.351	1	13	2	0	3	0	0	456/D3
1976	26	MIL	AL	105	306	273	25	75	4	3	0	14	4	1	19	32	.275	.327	.311	.638	90	85	7	2	12	0	0	45/36
1977	27	MIL	AL	30	40	33	5	2	1	0	0	2	1	0	5	10	.061	.179	.091	.270	-23	3	0	0	1	1	1	4/65D7
1978	28	TOT	AL	71	97	82	10	19	2	0	0	3	0	1	10	16	.232	.319	.256	.575	64	21	0	1	3	1	0	64
1978	28	MIL	AL	3	5	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.400	.000	.400	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	/6
1978	28	TOR	AL	68	92	79	9	19	2	0	0	3	0	1	8	16	.241	.315	.266	.580	65	21	0	1	3	1	0	64
1979	29	TOR	AL	43	96	86	6	16	2	1	0	6	0	1	8	15	.186	.255	.233	.488	33	20	2	0	2	0	0	4/53
7 Yrs				516	1408	1269	116	283	27	13	0	84	18	9	88	231	.223	.274	.265	.539	55	336	23	5	38	8	4
162 Game Avg.				162	442	398	36	89	8	4	0	26	6	3	28	73	.223	.274	.265	.539	55	105	7	2	12	3	1

MIL (6 yrs)				405	1220	1104	101	248	23	12	0	75	18	7	72	200	.225	.273	.267	.540	57	295	21	4	33	7	4
TOR (2 yrs)				111	188	165	15	35	4	1	0	9	0	2	16	31	.212	.284	.248	.533	48	41	2	1	5	1	0

Player Value--Batters

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

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	RAA	WAA	Rrep	RAR	WAR	waaWL%	162WL%	oWAR	dWAR	oRAR	Salary	Pos
1973	23	MIL	AL	136	510	-34	0	1	-6	7	-31	-3.1	16	-14	-1.6	.475	.479	-1.1	0.4	-9	$15,000	*6
1974	24	MIL	AL	93	265	-9	-1	1	2	4	-3	-0.2	9	6	0.6	.497	.498	0.4	0.8	4	$17,000	64/5D7
1975	25	MIL	AL	38	94	-11	1	0	0	1	-9	-0.9	3	-6	-0.6	.475	.494	-0.7	0.1	-6	$75,000	456/D3
1976	26	MIL	AL	105	306	-2	-0	0	1	3	2	0.3	10	12	1.3	.502	.502	1.2	0.5	11	$	45/36
1977	27	MIL	AL	30	40	-6	0	0	-1	0	-6	-0.6	1	-5	-0.5	.478	.496	-0.4	-0.0	-4	$	4/65D7
1978	28	MIL	AL	3	5	0	-0	0	-0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	.511	.500	0.1	-0.0	1	$92,500	/6
1978	28	TOR	AL	68	92	-3	-1	0	2	2	0	0.1	3	3	0.3	.501	.500	0.1	0.5	1	$	64
1979	29	TOR	AL	43	96	-6	-1	-0	-4	0	-11	-1.0	3	-8	-0.7	.475	.493	-0.4	-0.3	-4	$	4/53
7 Seasons				516	1408	-71	-2	3	-5	18	-56	-5.5	45	-11	-1.2	.488	.495	-0.8	2.0	-6	$199,500

MIL (6 yrs)				405	1220	-61	-0	3	-3	16	-46	-4.5	39	-7	-0.8	.488	.495	-0.5	1.8	-3	$199,500
TOR (2 yrs)				111	188	-10	-2	0	-2	2	-10	-1.0	6	-4	-0.4	.491	.497	-0.3	0.2	-3	$

Advanced Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1973	23	MIL	AL	510	394	30	2.0	91	.263	.213	.256	.259	.324	.243	.376	.502	.701	44	.201	-34.3	-3.5	.385	.099	.030	.0
1974	24	MIL	AL	265	198	23	3.1	88	.302	.245	.257	.278	.321	.331	.370	.609	.691	76	.374	-8.8	-0.9	.495	.135	.086	.0
1975	25	MIL	AL	94	78	3	1.0	93	.176	.141	.258	.198	.328	.153	.379	.351	.707	1	.068	-11.4	-1.2	.293	.118	.012	.0
1976	26	MIL	AL	306	218	28	3.5	84	.311	.275	.254	.327	.318	.311	.358	.638	.675	90	.437	-4.0	-0.4	.529	.117	.037	.0
1977	27	MIL	AL	40	33	1	0.8	100	.083	.061	.266	.179	.330	.091	.405	.270	.735	-23	.039	-5.6	-0.6	.290	.212	.030	.0
1978	28	TOT	AL	97	68	7	2.8	94	.284	.232	.262	.319	.328	.256	.386	.575	.714	64	.304	-3.6	-0.4	.484	.134	.024
1978	28	MIL	AL	5	3	0	0.0	94	.000	.000	.261	.400	.326	.000	.385	.400	.711	23	.000	-0.1	-0.0	.667	.667	.000
1978	28	TOR	AL	92	65	7	2.9	94	.297	.241	.262	.315	.328	.266	.386	.580	.714	65	.323	-3.4	-0.4	.475	.114	.025
1979	29	TOR	AL	96	75	5	1.8	102	.225	.186	.270	.255	.334	.233	.408	.488	.743	33	.144	-8.3	-0.8	.370	.128	.047
7 Yrs				1408	1064	97	2.4	90	.271	.223	.257	.274	.324	.265	.375	.539	.698	55	.266	-76.0	-7.8	.430	.118	.042	.0
162 Game Avg.				442	334	30	2.4	90	.271	.223	.257	.274	.324	.265	.375	.539	.698	55	.266	-76.0	-7.8	.430	.118	.042

MIL (6 yrs)				1220	924	85	2.5	89	.272	.225	.256	.273	.323	.267	.371	.540	.694	57	.274	-64.2	-6.6	.432	.118	.043	.0
TOR (2 yrs)				188	140	12	2.3	98	.259	.212	.266	.284	.331	.248	.398	.533	.729	48	.224	-11.7	-1.2	.418	.121	.036

Ratio Batting*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1973	23	MIL	AL	510	0.0%	18.2%	5.7%	2.4%	12%	3.21	5.0		14.5	2.42	74%
1974	24	MIL	AL	265	0.0%	18.1%	4.2%	5.3%	23%	4.36	5.1		9.8	1.61	75%
1975	25	MIL	AL	94	0.0%	18.1%	6.4%	1.1%	8%	2.83	5.0		42.5	3.00	72%
1976	26	MIL	AL	306	0.0%	10.5%	6.2%	2.3%	9%	1.68	8.5		19.5	1.39	79%
1977	27	MIL	AL	40	0.0%	25.0%	12.5%	2.5%	50%	2.00	3.3		16.5	1.44	60%
1978	28	TOT	AL	97	0.0%	16.5%	10.3%	2.1%	11%	1.60	5.1		27.3	1.45	69%
1978	28	MIL	AL	5	0.0%	0.0%	40.0%	0.0%		0.00					60%
1978	28	TOR	AL	92	0.0%	17.4%	8.7%	2.2%	11%	2.00	4.9		26.3	1.35	70%
1979	29	TOR	AL	96	0.0%	15.6%	8.3%	3.1%	19%	1.88	5.7		14.3	1.59	74%
7 Yrs				1408	0.0%	16.4%	6.3%	2.8%	14%	2.63	5.5		15.1	1.85	74%
MLB Averages					1.9%	13.0%	8.6%	6.3%	27%	1.51	6.8	46.1	8.6	1.09	75%

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	PHlev	AB
1973	23	MIL	AL	-34.3	-3.5	529	-3.5	5.6	-9.1	.91	-3.3	-0.6	-28.0	-2.9	0.96	-37.2	1.63	2
1974	24	MIL	AL	-8.8	-0.9	274	-0.1	4.9	-5.0	1.13	-1.0	0.9	-4.4	-0.5	0.94	-11.2	1.66	7
1975	25	MIL	AL	-11.4	-1.2	99	-0.9	0.8	-1.8	1.01	-1.2	0.3	-13.0	-1.4	0.95	-12.2	1.28	5
1976	26	MIL	AL	-4.0	-0.4	314	-1.0	4.7	-5.7	1.08	-0.6	-0.3	-12.2	-1.3	0.99	-5.9	0.48	0
1977	27	MIL	AL	-5.6	-0.6	42	-0.5	0.2	-0.7	.86	-0.4	-0.2	-4.6	-0.5	0.88	-5.5	1.50	10
1978	28	TOT	AL	-3.6	-0.4	98	-0.2	1.2	-1.5	1.00	-0.3	0.1	-3.9	-0.4	0.89	-4.0	1.85	4
1978	28	MIL	AL	-0.1	-0.0	5	0.1	0.1	-0.0	.77	0.0	0.0	0.8	0.1	0.87	0.6	0.22	0
1978	28	TOR	AL	-3.4	-0.4	93	-0.3	1.2	-1.5	1.01	-0.4	0.1	-4.7	-0.5	0.89	-4.5	1.85	4
1979	29	TOR	AL	-8.3	-0.8	97	-0.3	1.3	-1.7	.92	-0.7	0.3	-6.0	-0.6	0.89	-8.0	0.80	1
7 Yrs				-76.0	-7.8	1453	-6.7	18.7	-25.4	1.00	-7.5	0.8	-72.0	-7.5	0.95	-83.9	1.53	29

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	CS3	SBH	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1973	23	MIL	AL	7	30%	170	6	3	67%	6	2	1	0	2	1	8	16	46%	27	18	8	8	6	2	15	2	13
1974	24	MIL	AL	2	35%	100	4	3	57%	3	2	1	1	1	0	3	8	32%	14	12	1	4	2	2	7	2	5
1975	25	MIL	AL	1	33%	35	3	0	100%	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	38%	7	4	3	0	0	0	1	1	0
1976	26	MIL	AL	5	26%	139	4	1	80%	4	1	0	0	1	0	5	8	50%	19	10	9	4	2	2	11	3	6
1977	27	MIL	AL	1	71%	21	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	43%	3	2	1	1	1	0	3	1	2
1978	28	TOT	AL	2	33%	49	0	1	0%	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	2	27%	12	8	4	1	1	0	2	1	0
1978	28	MIL	AL	1	50%	4	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1978	28	TOR	AL	1	32%	45	0	1	0%	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	2	29%	11	7	4	1	1	0	2	1	0
1979	29	TOR	AL	3	25%	48	0	1	0%	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	33%	6	4	2	2	1	1	1	1	0
7 Yrs				21	31%	562	18	9	67%	17	7	2	1	4	1	22	41	41%	88	58	28	20	13	7	40	11	26

Situational Hitting*

						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1973	23	MIL	AL	510	67%	99			2	0	0	0	1.63	0	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	13	11	85%	96	10	10%	53	19	36%	305	35	11%	27	11	41%	18	8	44%	0
1974	24	MIL	AL	265	82%	60			7	2	0	2	1.66	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	8	6	75%	44	2	5%	24	13	54%	147	26	18%	14	7	50%	7	5	71%	0
1975	25	MIL	AL	94	89%	12			5	2	0	0	1.28	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	100%	15	2	13%	13	5	38%	52	2	4%	5	1	20%	4	3	75%	0
1976	26	MIL	AL	306	88%	75			0	0	0	0	0.48	0	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	13	12	92%	59	7	12%	32	13	41%	184	15	8%	11	3	27%	5	3	60%	0
1977	27	MIL	AL	40	93%	2			10	1	0	0	1.50	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100%	6	0	0%	2	2	100%	21	2	10%	3	1	33%	0	0		0
1978	28	TOT	AL	97	76%	19			4	0	0	0	1.85	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	100%	16	0	0%	12	5	42%	46	3	7%	5	2	40%	2	2	100%	0
1978	28	MIL	AL	5	60%	0			0	0	0	0	0.22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	0	0%	0	0		2	0	0%	0	0		0	0		0
1978	28	TOR	AL	92	77%	19			4	0	0	0	1.85	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	100%	15	0	0%	12	5	42%	44	3	7%	5	2	40%	2	2	100%	0
1979	29	TOR	AL	96	88%	16			1	0	0	0	0.80	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	100%	15	2	13%	6	4	67%	55	7	13%	5	3	60%	2	2	100%	0
7 Yrs				1408	79%	283			29	5	0	2	1.53	0	0	34	0	0	0	0	0	43	38	88%	251	23	9%	142	61	43%	810	90	11%	70	28	40%	38	23	61%	0
MLB Averages					55%																			78%			11%			34%			14%			49%			54%

Cumulative Batting

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1973	23	136	510	465	39	99	10	2	32	6	3	29	93	.213	.259	.243	.502	44	113	10	1	11	4	2
1974	24	229	775	710	64	159	17	9	57	10	6	40	141	.224	.265	.273	.538	55	194	12	2	17	6	3
1975	25	267	869	795	70	171	18	9	59	13	6	46	158	.215	.258	.260	.518	49	207	14	2	20	6	3
1976	26	372	1175	1068	95	246	22	12	73	17	7	65	190	.230	.276	.273	.549	59	292	21	4	32	6	3
1977	27	402	1215	1101	100	248	23	12	75	18	7	70	200	.225	.272	.268	.540	57	295	21	4	33	7	4
1978	28	473	1312	1183	110	267	25	12	78	18	8	80	216	.226	.276	.267	.543	57	316	21	5	36	8	4
1979	29	516	1408	1269	116	283	27	13	84	18	9	88	231	.223	.274	.265	.539	55	336	23	5	38	8	4

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1973	23	136	519	472	44	106	11	2	36	6	31	93	.225	.272	.256	.528	33	136
1974	24	93	271	250	29	65	8	8	29	4	12	48	.260	.294	.356	.650	26	93
1975	25	38	95	86	7	13	1	0	2	3	6	17	.151	.207	.163	.369	3	38
1976	26	106	318	283	30	84	4	3	17	4	21	32	.297	.350	.332	.682	33	105
1977	27	30	44	34	9	3	2	0	4	2	8	10	.088	.256	.147	.403	1	30
1978	28	71	99	83	11	20	2	0	3	0	11	16	.241	.333	.265	.598	7	71
1979	29	43	96	86	6	16	2	1	6	0	8	15	.186	.255	.233	.488	5	43
7 Yrs		517	1442	1294	136	307	30	14	97	19	97	231	.237	.291	.282	.573	108	516
162 Game Avg.		162	452	405	43	96	9	4	30	6	30	72	.237	.291	.282	.573	34	516

* 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

Triples s c a p y 1974 AL 7 (7th)	Sacrifice Hits s c a p y 1973 AL 11 (6th) 1976 AL 12 (10th)

Triples s c a p y
1974 AL 7 (7th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1973 AL 11 (6th)
1976 AL 12 (10th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

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