Al Gerheauser
Philadelphia Blue Jays 1943–1944; Pittsburgh Pirates 1945–1946; St. Louis Browns 1948
Percentile snapshot
1944 season — qualified pitchers
of 96 qualified 1944 pitchers (min 154 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 38 | 76 | 71 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .113 | .160 | .155 | .315 | -22.8 | -8.0 | .158 | 1.1 |
| 1944 | 32 | 68 | 65 | 4 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .254 | .354 | .608 | 62.5 | 70.7 | .279 | 0.0 |
| 1945 | 32 | 50 | 48 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .280 | .375 | .655 | 71.1 | 78.0 | .304 | 1.7 |
| 1946 | 36 | 21 | 21 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .429 | .762 | 107.2 | 111.9 | .352 | 0.6 |
| 1948 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 67.0 | 73.6 | .314 | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 38 | 31 | 10 | 19 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 222 | 86 | 70 | 92 | 10 | 215.0 | 3.60 | 1.358 | 3.85 | 3.23 | 97.6 | 91.8 | 1.1 |
| 1944 | 30 | 29 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 210 | 93 | 65 | 66 | 8 | 182.7 | 4.58 | 1.505 | 3.25 | 3.46 | 96.9 | 77.9 | 0.0 |
| 1945 | 32 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 170 | 61 | 54 | 55 | 5 | 140.3 | 3.91 | 1.596 | 3.53 | 3.49 | 88.7 | 100.6 | 1.7 |
| 1946 | 35 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 92 | 36 | 25 | 32 | 2 | 81.7 | 3.97 | 1.433 | 3.53 | 2.81 | 79.8 | 88.8 | 0.6 |
| 1948 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 19 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 23.3 | 7.33 | 1.800 | 3.86 | 3.31 | 73.6 | 61.3 | -0.5 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-06-27 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1945-06-12 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1944-04-23 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1944-07-04 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1944-08-26 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-04-23 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
| 1943-06-15 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| 1943-09-22 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 0 |
| 1943-05-16 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 1943-06-23 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 10.2 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.