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Billy Johnson played 9 major-league seasons (1943-1953) as a 3B (897), 1B (26), 2B (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 10 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 25 | NYA | 155 | 592 | 70 | 166 | 5 | 94 | 3 | 53 | 30 | .280 | .710 | 114 |
| 1946 | 28 | NYA | 85 | 296 | 51 | 77 | 4 | 35 | 1 | 31 | 42 | .260 | .716 | 107 |
| 1947 | 29 | NYA | 132 | 494 | 67 | 141 | 10 | 95 | 1 | 44 | 43 | .285 | .768 | 120 |
| 1948 | 30 | NYA | 127 | 446 | 59 | 131 | 12 | 64 | 0 | 41 | 30 | .294 | .805 | 119 |
| 1949 | 31 | NYA | 113 | 329 | 48 | 82 | 8 | 56 | 1 | 48 | 44 | .249 | .722 | 97 |
| 1950 | 32 | NYA | 108 | 327 | 44 | 85 | 6 | 40 | 1 | 42 | 30 | .260 | .722 | 91 |
| 1951 | 33 | NYA | 15 | 40 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 | .300 | .779 | 117 |
| 1951 | 33 | SLN | 124 | 442 | 52 | 116 | 14 | 64 | 5 | 46 | 49 | .262 | .754 | 109 |
| 1952 | 34 | SLN | 94 | 282 | 23 | 71 | 2 | 34 | 1 | 34 | 21 | .252 | .661 | 91 |
| 1953 | 35 | SLN | 11 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .200 | .733 | 97 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 3B | 155 | 0 | 183 | 326 | 18 | 32 |
| 1946 | 3B | 74 | 0 | 71 | 163 | 11 | 15 |
| 1947 | 3B | 132 | 0 | 136 | 204 | 17 | 12 |
| 1948 | 3B | 118 | 0 | 147 | 213 | 20 | 25 |
| 1949 | 3B | 81 | 0 | 77 | 136 | 11 | 16 |
| 1949 | 1B | 21 | 0 | 130 | 10 | 2 | 10 |
| 1949 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1950 | 3B | 100 | 0 | 82 | 169 | 11 | 20 |
| 1950 | 1B | 5 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1951 | 3B | 137 | 0 | 107 | 332 | 11 | 32 |
| 1952 | 3B | 89 | 0 | 56 | 177 | 12 | 10 |
| 1953 | 3B | 11 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 1 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
Billy Johnson won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1943 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1943 (ML), TSN All-Star 1943 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1947, 1943.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 4 | 135 / 336 | 3 |
| 1947 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 20 | 9 / 336 | 0 |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.