Johnny Lewis

Johnny Joe Lewis

Position: Rightfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 189 lb.

Born: August 10, 1939 in Greenville, AL
Signed by the Detroit Tigers as an amateur free agent in 1959. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1964
Teams (by GP): Mets/Cardinals 1964-1967

Final Game: June 11, 1967
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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
1964	STL	NL	24	OF	36	28	22	249.1	58	53	3	2	1	.966	4	18	2.02	1.56	.973	1.99	1.98
1964	STL	NL	24	RF	34	28	22	248.0	59	54	3	2	1	.966	4	18	2.07	1.68	.973	1.89	1.87
1964	STL	NL	24	LF	2	0	0	1.1	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-90	0.00	0.00		1.35	1.70
1965	NYM	NL	25	OF	142	126	113	1127.1	278	257	14	7	3	.975	3	3	2.16	1.91	.975	2.00	2.00
1965	NYM	NL	25	RF	100	81	77	744.0	178	165	8	5	2	.972	0	0	2.09	1.73	.975	1.95	1.95
1965	NYM	NL	25	CF	49	45	36	383.1	109	101	6	2	1	.982	3	10	2.51	2.18	.981	2.29	2.30
1966	NYM	NL	26	OF	49	43	32	382.1	80	77	2	1	1	.988	1	3	1.86	1.61	.974	2.03	2.03
1966	NYM	NL	26	RF	32	27	21	236.0	53	51	1	1	1	.981	0	1	1.98	1.63	.978	1.96	1.95
1966	NYM	NL	26	LF	11	9	7	83.1	21	20	1	0	0	1.000	2	23	2.27	1.91	.963	1.74	1.74
1966	NYM	NL	26	CF	8	7	4	63.0	8	8	0	0	0	1.000	-1	-19	1.14	1.00	.980	2.39	2.38
1967	NYM	NL	27	OF	10	7	6	69.0	16	15	1	0	0	1.000	2	26	2.09	1.60	.976	2.03	2.03
1967	NYM	NL	27	RF	9	7	6	65.0	15	14	1	0	0	1.000	2	30	2.08	1.67	.976	2.04	2.03
1967	NYM	NL	27	LF	2	0	0	4.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-30	2.25	0.50	.970	1.80	1.75
	4 Seasons			OF	237	204	173	1828.0	432	402	20	10	5	.977	9	6	2.08	1.78	.975	2.01	2.00
	4 Seasons			RF	175	143	126	1293.0	305	284	13	8	4	.974	6	5	2.07	1.70	.975	1.94	1.94
	2 Seasons			CF	57	52	40	446.1	117	109	6	2	1	.983	2	6	2.32	2.02	.981	2.30	2.31
	3 Seasons			LF	15	9	7	88.2	22	21	1	0	0	1.000	1	19	2.23	1.47	.963	1.74	1.73
	4 Seasons			TOT	237	204	173	1828.0	432	402	20	10	5	.977	9	6	2.08	1.78	.975	2.01	2.00

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
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Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rof
1964	STL	NL	24	RF	4	18	4	2	2	0
1964	STL	NL	24	LF	-0	-90	-0	0	-0
1965	NYM	NL	25	RF	0	0	-1	0	-1	1
1965	NYM	NL	25	CF	3	10	-1	-2	1	4
1966	NYM	NL	26	RF	0	1	0	2	-1	0
1966	NYM	NL	26	LF	2	23	2	0	1	0
1966	NYM	NL	26	CF	-1	-19	-2	-1	-1	1
1967	NYM	NL	27	RF	2	30	1	1	-0	1
1967	NYM	NL	27	LF	-0	-30	-0	0	-0	0
	4 Seasons			RF	6	5	4	4	-1	2
	2 Seasons			CF	2	6	-3	-3	0	5
	3 Seasons			LF	1	19	1	0	1	0
	4 Seasons			TOT	9	6	2	1	1	7

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1964	STL	NL	24	40	28	40	36	2	0	34	36	4	4
1965	NYM	NL	25	148	126	148	142	0	49	100	142	15	2
1966	NYM	NL	26	65	43	65	50	11	8	32	50	18	4
1967	NYM	NL	27	13	7	13	10	2	0	9	10	5	0
	4 Seasons			266	204	266	238	15	57	175	238	42	10

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 -- RF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1964	STL	NL	24	2	0	2	0	0	3	0	1	1	0	7	3	0	6	1	0	4	1	0	2	1	0	5	4	0	24	10	41.7%	14	0	0.0%	3	1025	67%	80%	30%	98	57%
1965	NYM	NL	25	5	0	5	0	1	8	0	1	3	4	48	23	3	24	5	1	10	3	0	12	2	3	23	15	0	117	48	41.0%	62	7	6.0%	1	3189	65%	84%	26%	332	51%
1966	NYM	NL	26	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	18	5	0	10	2	0	2	2	0	3	1	1	5	5	0	38	15	39.5%	22	1	2.6%	0	1028	69%	81%	24%	108	47%
1967	NYM	NL	27	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	3	1	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	2	2	0	10	5	50.0%	5	0	0.0%	1	266	61%	82%	24%	30	50%
	4 Seasons			8	0	8	0	1	13	0	3	5	4	75	32	3	43	9	1	18	7	0	18	4	4	35	26	0	189	78	41.3%	103	8	4.2%	5	5508	66%	83%	26%	568	51%
	MLB Averages																														39.9%			3.3%			64%	79%	27%		55%

Advanced Fielding -- CF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1965	NYM	NL	25	2	0	2	0	0	6	0	0	2	2	36	24	3	19	4	1	4	0	0	8	1	0	14	11	0	81	40	49.4%	38	4	4.9%	2	1675	67%	81%	29%	214	50%
1966	NYM	NL	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	4	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	2	2	0	12	8	66.7%	3	0	0.0%	0	245	67%	82%	22%	23	35%
	2 Seasons			2	0	2	0	0	6	0	0	2	2	40	28	3	23	5	1	5	1	0	9	1	0	16	13	0	93	48	51.6%	41	4	4.3%	2	1920	67%	81%	28%	237	48%
	MLB Averages																														40.0%			2.3%			64%	79%	27%		56%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1964	STL	NL	24	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		0	0		0	10	50%	60%	10%	0
1966	NYM	NL	26	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	4	4	0	5	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	12	6	50.0%	6	0	0.0%	1	349	59%	85%	28%	45	47%
1967	NYM	NL	27	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		0	0		0	16	75%	94%	31%	3	33%
	3 Seasons			0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	4	4	0	5	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	12	6	50.0%	6	0	0.0%	1	375	59%	85%	27%	48	46%
	MLB Averages																														58.1%			2.7%			64%	79%	27%		48%

* 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

Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1965 NL 6 (5th)	Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1965 NL 5 (5th)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1965 NL 14 (3rd)	Total Zone Runs as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1964 NL 4 (4th)
Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y 1965 NL 2.09 (3rd)

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