Don Heffner
New York Yankees 1934–1937; St. Louis Browns 1938–1942; Philadelphia Athletics 1943; St. Louis Browns 1943; Detroit Tigers 1944
Percentile snapshot
1940 season — qualified batters
of 140 qualified 1940 batters (min 483 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 72 | 270 | 241 | 29 | 63 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 25 | 25 | 18 | 1 | 1 | .261 | .331 | .320 | .650 | 77.0 | 74.8 | .312 | 0.2 |
| 1935 | 10 | 40 | 36 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .306 | .375 | .444 | .819 | 118.0 | 118.9 | .378 | 0.2 |
| 1936 | 19 | 55 | 48 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .229 | .315 | .313 | .627 | 63.0 | 59.7 | .300 | -0.1 |
| 1937 | 60 | 221 | 201 | 23 | 50 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 21 | 19 | 19 | 1 | 4 | .249 | .314 | .328 | .642 | 61.3 | 62.1 | .301 | -0.3 |
| 1938 | 141 | 554 | 473 | 47 | 116 | 23 | 3 | 2 | 69 | 65 | 53 | 1 | 1 | .245 | .341 | .319 | .661 | 67.1 | 64.0 | .318 | -0.3 |
| 1939 | 110 | 434 | 375 | 45 | 100 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 35 | 48 | 39 | 1 | 7 | .267 | .350 | .312 | .662 | 70.8 | 67.4 | .319 | 0.2 |
| 1940 | 126 | 530 | 487 | 52 | 115 | 23 | 2 | 3 | 53 | 39 | 37 | 5 | 5 | .236 | .295 | .310 | .606 | 52.4 | 54.7 | .282 | -1.3 |
| 1941 | 110 | 446 | 399 | 48 | 93 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 38 | 27 | 5 | 6 | .233 | .303 | .278 | .581 | 50.4 | 51.8 | .281 | -1.1 |
| 1942 | 19 | 37 | 36 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .167 | .189 | .222 | .411 | 0.8 | 14.5 | .195 | -0.4 |
| 1943 | 70 | 235 | 211 | 19 | 41 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 2 | .194 | .267 | .227 | .495 | 40.8 | 44.7 | .249 | -0.8 |
| 1944 | 6 | 24 | 19 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .211 | .375 | .263 | .638 | 95.1 | 81.0 | .333 | 0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-08-03 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1939-08-06 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 1939-09-13 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1939-09-10 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1943-07-24 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934-04-17 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-04-18 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-04-19 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-04-21 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-04-22 | NYY @ BOS 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.