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Johnny Groth played 15 major-league seasons (1946-1960) as a OF (1,155). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 15 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 20 | DET | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| 1947 | 21 | DET | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .250 | .750 | 119 |
| 1948 | 22 | DET | 6 | 17 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .471 | 1.324 | 259 |
| 1949 | 23 | DET | 103 | 348 | 60 | 102 | 11 | 73 | 3 | 65 | 27 | .293 | .878 | 140 |
| 1950 | 24 | DET | 157 | 566 | 95 | 173 | 12 | 85 | 1 | 95 | 27 | .306 | .858 | 126 |
| 1951 | 25 | DET | 118 | 428 | 41 | 128 | 3 | 49 | 1 | 31 | 32 | .299 | .742 | 105 |
| 1952 | 26 | DET | 141 | 524 | 56 | 149 | 4 | 51 | 2 | 51 | 39 | .284 | .705 | 103 |
| 1953 | 27 | SLA | 141 | 557 | 65 | 141 | 10 | 57 | 5 | 42 | 53 | .253 | .678 | 88 |
| 1954 | 28 | CHA | 125 | 422 | 41 | 116 | 7 | 60 | 3 | 42 | 37 | .275 | .713 | 102 |
| 1955 | 29 | CHA|WS1 | 95 | 260 | 35 | 66 | 4 | 28 | 3 | 24 | 31 | .254 | .693 | 92 |
| 1956 | 30 | KC1 | 95 | 244 | 22 | 63 | 5 | 37 | 1 | 30 | 31 | .258 | .732 | 98 |
| 1957 | 31 | KC1|DET | 93 | 162 | 21 | 45 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 13 | 13 | .278 | .673 | 90 |
| 1958 | 32 | DET | 88 | 146 | 24 | 41 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 13 | 19 | .281 | .723 | 105 |
| 1959 | 33 | DET | 55 | 102 | 12 | 24 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 14 | .235 | .637 | 79 |
| 1960 | 34 | DET | 25 | 19 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | .368 | .876 | 146 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | OF | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947 | OF | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948 | OF | 4 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1949 | OF | 99 | 0 | 247 | 8 | 9 | 3 |
| 1950 | OF | 157 | 0 | 374 | 9 | 6 | 0 |
| 1951 | OF | 112 | 0 | 266 | 12 | 2 | 3 |
| 1952 | OF | 139 | 0 | 329 | 14 | 5 | 3 |
| 1953 | OF | 141 | 0 | 425 | 18 | 4 | 5 |
| 1954 | OF | 125 | 121 | 314 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| 1955 | OF | 74 | 67 | 183 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 1956 | OF | 84 | 61 | 140 | 8 | 0 | 3 |
| 1957 | OF | 86 | 40 | 110 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1958 | OF | 80 | 31 | 95 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 1959 | OF | 41 | 21 | 58 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1960 | OF | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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.
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (1 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1949.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Rookie of the Year | AL | 5 | 1 / 24 | 1 |
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.