Buck Herzog

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 160 lb

BornJuly 9, 1885 · Baltimore, MD, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1908

Final gameSeptember 9, 1920

Seasons13 (1908–1920)

New York Giants 1908–1909; Boston Doves 1910; Boston Rustlers 1911; New York Giants 1911–1913; Cincinnati Reds 1914–1916; New York Giants 1916–1917; Boston Braves 1918–1919; Chicago Cubs 1919–1920

Percentile snapshot

1919 season — qualified batters

125

525

56.5

468

57.3

31.5

130

58.9

36.3

72.6

33.1

RBI

50.8

35.5

63.7

93.5

.278

45.2

OBP

.331

SLG

.348

41.1

OPS

.679

43.5

wRC+

106.7

53.2

OPS+

106.0

49.2

wOBA

.325

41.9

sWAR

2.4

66.1

of 125 qualified 1919 batters (min 434 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.4

34.5

OPS+

95.6

32.8

sWAR

21.7

94.3

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1908	64	213	160	38	48	6	2	0	11	36	14	16	0	.300	.448	.363	.811	171.8	155.8	.411	2.7
1909	42	146	130	16	24	2	0	0	8	13	10	10	0	.185	.264	.200	.464	46.7	44.1	.242	-0.6
1910	106	445	380	51	95	20	3	3	32	30	34	13	0	.250	.329	.342	.672	88.6	89.0	.331	1.1
1911	148	635	541	90	157	33	9	6	67	47	40	48	0	.290	.365	.418	.783	112.8	113.8	.374	3.5
1912	140	563	482	72	127	20	9	2	47	57	34	37	0	.263	.350	.355	.705	95.3	93.2	.342	1.8
1913	96	324	290	46	83	15	3	3	31	22	12	23	0	.286	.349	.390	.739	112.0	112.0	.351	1.7
1914	138	564	498	54	140	14	8	1	40	42	27	46	0	.281	.348	.347	.695	104.7	103.4	.339	3.0
1915	155	641	579	61	153	14	10	1	42	34	21	35	16	.264	.314	.328	.642	90.8	92.0	.309	2.3
1916	156	638	561	70	148	24	6	1	49	43	36	34	28	.264	.327	.333	.661	106.7	105.1	.319	3.3
1917	114	477	417	69	98	10	8	2	31	31	36	12	0	.235	.308	.312	.620	95.8	94.4	.302	1.6
1918	118	526	473	57	108	12	6	0	26	29	28	10	0	.228	.280	.279	.559	71.0	73.0	.274	0.1
1919	125	525	468	42	130	12	9	1	42	23	18	28	0	.278	.331	.348	.679	106.7	106.0	.325	2.4
1920	91	350	305	39	59	9	2	0	19	20	21	8	9	.193	.261	.236	.497	39.8	42.3	.246	-1.2

Career totals

1,493

6,047

5,284

705

1,370

191

331st-most career 3B

RBI

445

427

331

320

150th-most career SB

.2593

OBP

.3288

SLG

.3352

OPS

.6640

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
1911-07-13	STL @ ATL Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	1	0	1	7
1912-05-09	SF @ STL Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	0	3	0	6
1912-10-09	SF @ BOS Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	0	3	0	6
1911-05-27	LAD @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	3	0	0	2	0	6
1911-06-10	ATL @ CHC Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1908-04-14	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-16	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-17	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-18	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-20	SF @ 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.