Art Herring

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 168 lb

BornMarch 10, 1906 · Altus, OK, USA

MLB debutSeptember 12, 1929

Final gameJune 15, 1947

Seasons11 (1929–1947)

Detroit Tigers 1929–1933; Brooklyn Dodgers 1934; Chicago White Sox 1939; Brooklyn Dodgers 1944–1946; Pittsburgh Pirates 1947

Percentile snapshot

1931 season — qualified pitchers

SHO

186

165.0

ERA

4.31

WHIP

1.533

K/9

3.49

FIP

4.47

FIP-

99.2

ERA+

104.6

sWAR

1.9

of 101 qualified 1931 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.1

79.6

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1929	4	14	14	2	3	2	1	3	0	1	0	.214	.214	.500	.714	65.1	77.1	.304	0.2
1930	23	26	23	2	3	0	0	0	1	4	0	.130	.167	.130	.297	-27.1	-24.5	.145	0.2
1931	35	61	55	10	11	2	0	3	3	6	0	.200	.241	.236	.478	21.3	24.2	.228	1.9
1932	12	5	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	.000	.200	.000	.200	-23.0	-43.7	.151	0.0
1933	24	15	13	2	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	.077	.200	.077	.277	-16.0	-24.3	.163	0.8
1934	14	18	14	1	2	0	0	2	4	3	0	.143	.333	.143	.476	54.6	34.6	.267	-0.7
1939	7	5	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.000	.200	.000	.200	-25.2	-44.5	.151	0.0
1944	12	18	15	5	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	.200	.200	.333	.533	34.3	48.0	.239	0.7
1945	23	49	42	3	4	0	0	1	2	6	1	.095	.156	.095	.251	-36.0	-29.4	.135	1.5
1946	35	24	22	2	4	2	0	0	1	2	0	.182	.217	.273	.490	24.2	38.5	.232	1.0
1947	11	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.2	-100.0	.000	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1929	4	4	2	1	0	2	0	38	17	19	15	0	32.0	4.78	1.781	4.22	3.95	91.8	90.1	0.2
1930	23	6	3	3	0	1	0	97	46	36	16	2	77.7	5.33	1.712	1.85	4.88	102.4	89.4	0.2
1931	35	16	7	13	1	9	0	186	79	67	64	8	165.0	4.31	1.533	3.49	4.47	99.2	104.6	1.9
1932	12	0	1	2	2	0	0	25	13	15	12	2	22.3	5.24	1.791	4.84	5.37	120.4	85.1	0.0
1933	24	3	1	2	0	1	0	61	26	20	20	6	61.0	3.84	1.328	2.95	4.69	109.1	112.0	0.8
1934	14	4	2	4	0	2	0	63	34	29	15	2	49.3	6.20	1.865	2.74	4.77	121.1	63.5	-0.7
1939	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	9	5	8	2	14.3	5.65	1.256	5.02	5.09	110.9	81.2	0.0
1944	12	6	3	4	1	3	1	59	21	17	19	3	55.3	3.42	1.373	3.09	3.52	97.3	106.1	0.7
1945	22	15	7	4	2	7	2	103	48	43	34	11	124.0	3.48	1.177	2.47	4.35	114.4	109.3	1.5
1946	35	2	7	2	5	0	0	91	32	29	34	2	86.0	3.35	1.395	3.56	2.88	84.2	102.0	1.0
1947	11	0	1	3	2	0	0	18	10	4	6	3	10.7	8.44	2.063	5.06	6.23	147.9	49.9	-0.4

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

200

237

208

RBI

.1490

OBP

.2098

SLG

.1971

OPS

.4069

Pitching

G (P)

199

SHO

698

SO (P)

243

BB allowed

284

ERA

4.322

WHIP

1.4878

K/9

3.13

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	RBI	TB
1929-09-24	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	2	5
1946-07-02	PHI @ LAD Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	0	3
1944-09-24	CHC @ LAD Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	0	3
1931-08-16	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	1	2
1931-06-23	MIN @ DET Gameday	1	1	1	1	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1929-09-24	BAL @ DET Gameday	9.0	7	4	4	9	8	0
1931-09-12	DET @ BOS Gameday	12.2	10	1	0	4	7	0
1931-08-20	BOS @ DET Gameday	9.0	9	2	2	0	5	0
1944-09-24	CHC @ LAD Gameday	9.0	8	4	4	3	5	1
1945-07-29	ATL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	1	5	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.