Babe Herman

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 190 lb

BornJune 26, 1903 · Buffalo, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1926

Final gameSeptember 16, 1945

Seasons13 (1926–1945)

Brooklyn Robins 1926–1931; Cincinnati Reds 1932; Chicago Cubs 1933–1934; Cincinnati Reds 1935; Pittsburgh Pirates 1935; Cincinnati Reds 1936; Detroit Tigers 1937; Brooklyn Dodgers 1945

Percentile snapshot

1934 season — qualified batters

125

46.3

507

46.3

467

50.7

49.3

142

56.7

82.1

49.3

80.6

RBI

75.4

49.3

3.7

11.2

32.8

.304

53.7

OBP

.353

39.6

SLG

.488

77.6

OPS

.841

70.1

wRC+

125.5

70.9

OPS+

127.1

69.4

wOBA

.376

sWAR

2.6

66.4

of 135 qualified 1934 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

140.4

96.3

OPS+

140.9

95.9

sWAR

43.7

98.3

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1926	137	554	496	64	158	35	11	11	81	44	53	8	.319	.375	.500	.875	134.0	135.4	.398	3.2
1927	130	466	412	65	112	26	9	14	73	39	41	4	.272	.336	.481	.817	114.6	117.6	.370	1.5
1928	134	542	486	64	165	37	6	12	91	38	36	1	.340	.390	.514	.904	136.1	136.7	.409	3.6
1929	146	637	569	105	217	42	13	21	113	55	45	21	.381	.436	.612	1.047	157.8	159.9	.461	6.1
1930	153	699	614	143	241	48	11	35	130	66	56	18	.393	.455	.678	1.132	167.6	171.0	.485	7.7
1931	151	661	610	93	191	43	16	18	97	50	65	17	.313	.365	.525	.890	137.0	138.0	.398	4.5
1932	148	642	577	87	188	38	19	16	87	60	45	7	.326	.389	.541	.930	150.5	149.9	.410	5.4
1933	137	565	508	77	147	36	12	16	93	50	57	6	.289	.353	.502	.855	144.7	144.3	.388	4.2
1934	125	507	467	65	142	34	5	14	84	35	71	1	.304	.353	.488	.841	125.5	127.1	.376	2.6
1935	118	471	430	52	136	31	6	10	65	38	35	5	.316	.373	.486	.859	130.1	130.9	.386	2.7
1936	119	421	380	59	106	25	2	13	71	39	36	4	.279	.348	.458	.806	119.0	120.5	.367	1.9
1937	17	22	20	2	6	3	0	0	3	1	6	2	.300	.364	.450	.814	102.1	103.1	.370	0.1
1945	37	39	34	6	9	1	0	1	9	5	7	0	.265	.359	.382	.741	108.2	105.9	.356	0.2

Career totals

1,552

6,226

5,603

882

1,818

396th-most career H

399

200th-most career 2B

110

128th-most career 3B

181

464th-most career HR

RBI

997

311th-most career RBI

520

553

.3245

55th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3829

167th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5319

51st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9148

61st-highest career OPS

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
1933-07-20	PHI @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	3	8	0	13
1930-08-08	LAD @ STL Gameday	4	4	4	1	0	2	4	1	11
1930-07-31	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	1	5	2	0	1	4	0	10
1931-05-18	CIN @ LAD Gameday	5	4	4	1	1	1	5	0	10
1933-09-30	CHC @ STL Gameday	6	3	4	1	1	1	4	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1926-04-13	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-14	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-16	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-17	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-18	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.