MLB / Players

Bert Niehoff

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 170 lb

BornMay 13, 1884 · Louisville, CO, USA

MLB debutOctober 4, 1913

Final gameMay 31, 1918

Seasons6 (1913–1918)

Cincinnati Reds 1913–1914; Philadelphia Phillies 1915–1917; New York Giants 1918; St. Louis Cardinals 1918

Percentile snapshot

1916 season — qualified batters

146

65.5

611

69.7

548

74.8

68.1

133

59.7

100

42.9

76.5

RBI

78.2

52.1

18.5

69.7

24.4

.243

23.5

OBP

.292

8.4

SLG

.356

48.7

OPS

.648

30.3

wRC+

93.7

31.9

OPS+

96.2

34.5

wOBA

.307

18.5

sWAR

1.9

60.5

of 120 qualified 1916 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.7

76.1

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
1913	2	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.5	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1914	142	534	484	46	117	16	9	4	49	38	77	20	0	.242	.298	.337	.635	82.8	85.5	.306	1.0
1915	148	580	529	61	126	27	2	2	49	30	63	21	11	.238	.280	.308	.588	74.0	77.7	.282	0.4
1916	146	611	548	65	133	42	4	4	61	37	57	20	14	.243	.292	.356	.648	93.7	96.2	.307	1.9
1917	114	401	361	30	92	17	4	2	42	23	29	8	0	.255	.303	.341	.644	93.3	94.9	.308	1.2
1918	29	113	107	8	21	2	0	0	6	3	14	2	0	.196	.218	.215	.433	24.9	33.5	.211	-0.6

Career totals

581

2,247

2,037

210

489

104

RBI

207

131

242

.2401

OBP

.2876

SLG

.3274

OPS

.6150

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	TB
1916-06-05	STL @ PHI Gameday	6	1	4	1	0	1	2	8
1914-06-06	CIN @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	2	7
1914-07-11	LAD @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	2	6
1914-05-23	LAD @ CIN Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	0	3	6
1915-07-07	SF @ PHI Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	1	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1913-09-15	PHI @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-09-16	PHI @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-09-16	PHI @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-09-18	LAD @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-09-19	LAD @ CIN 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.