Billy Herman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb

BornJuly 7, 1909 · New Albany, IN, USA

MLB debutAugust 29, 1931

Final gameAugust 1, 1947

Seasons15 (1931–1947)

Chicago Cubs 1931–1940; Brooklyn Dodgers 1941; Chicago Cubs 1941; Brooklyn Dodgers 1942–1943; Brooklyn Dodgers 1946; Boston Braves 1946; Pittsburgh Pirates 1947

Percentile snapshot

1946 season — qualified batters

122

37.1

512

46.4

436

35.1

49.5

130

53.6

89.7

51.5

36.1

RBI

50.5

82.5

60.8

36.1

.298

69.1

OBP

.395

87.6

SLG

.413

59.8

OPS

.808

69.1

wRC+

134.9

77.3

OPS+

129.0

75.3

wOBA

.387

70.1

sWAR

3.8

79.4

of 98 qualified 1946 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

115.5

72.5

OPS+

113.6

69.7

sWAR

47.2

98.6

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
1931	25	115	98	14	32	7	0	0	16	13	6	2	.327	.405	.398	.803	121.3	115.7	.378	0.7
1932	154	723	656	102	206	42	7	1	51	40	33	14	.314	.358	.404	.762	107.4	106.6	.345	3.2
1933	153	681	619	82	173	35	2	0	44	45	34	5	.279	.332	.342	.675	95.7	94.9	.318	2.2
1934	113	501	456	79	138	21	6	3	42	34	31	6	.303	.355	.395	.750	105.2	104.5	.344	2.1
1935	154	735	666	113	227	57	6	7	83	42	29	6	.341	.383	.476	.859	131.5	131.5	.387	5.4
1936	153	709	632	101	211	57	7	5	93	59	30	5	.334	.392	.470	.862	132.3	131.1	.395	5.3
1937	138	632	564	106	189	35	11	8	65	56	22	2	.335	.396	.479	.875	136.2	134.5	.400	5.1
1938	152	696	624	86	173	34	7	1	56	59	31	3	.277	.342	.359	.701	92.4	91.6	.329	1.9
1939	156	713	623	111	191	34	18	7	70	66	31	9	.307	.378	.453	.830	123.2	121.6	.382	4.6
1940	135	616	558	77	163	24	4	5	57	47	30	1	.292	.347	.376	.723	101.9	101.4	.336	2.4
1941	144	649	572	81	163	30	5	3	41	67	43	1	.285	.361	.371	.732	107.3	104.7	.349	2.9
1942	155	647	571	76	146	34	2	2	65	72	52	6	.256	.339	.333	.672	98.9	96.6	.327	2.3
1943	153	663	585	76	193	41	2	2	100	66	26	4	.330	.398	.417	.815	139.0	133.9	.390	5.5
1946	122	512	436	56	130	31	5	3	50	69	23	3	.298	.395	.413	.808	134.9	129.0	.387	3.8
1947	15	49	47	3	10	4	0	0	6	2	7	0	.213	.245	.298	.543	31.4	41.0	.250	-0.3

Career totals

1,922

314th-most career G

8,641

198th-most career PA

7,707

186th-most career AB

1,163

222nd-most career R

2,345

141st-most career H

486

78th-most career 2B

264th-most career 3B

RBI

839

473rd-most career RBI

737

335th-most career BB

428

.3043

167th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3669

342nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4069

OPS

.7738

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
1936-04-14	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	4	5	3	0	1	3	11
1941-05-10	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	1	5	0	2	0	1	9
1935-07-01	CHC @ CIN Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	0	0	9
1939-09-15	PHI @ CHC Gameday	5	1	3	1	1	1	2	9
1937-06-13	CHC @ PHI Gameday	6	3	4	1	0	1	2	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1931-04-14	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-15	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-16	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-17	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-18	STL @ CHC 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1975 (Veterans)

10× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.