MLB / Players

Hank Bauer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 192 lb

BornJuly 31, 1922 · East St. Louis, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 6, 1948

Final gameJuly 21, 1961

Seasons14 (1948–1961)

New York Yankees 1948–1959; Kansas City Athletics 1960–1961

Percentile snapshot

1958 season — qualified batters

128

5.6

490

4.2

452

14.1

23.9

121

22.5

46.5

66.2

32.4

RBI

23.9

15.5

54.9

39.4

52.1

.268

39.4

OBP

.316

16.9

SLG

.423

40.8

OPS

.739

wRC+

106.0

49.3

OPS+

106.9

47.9

wOBA

.332

36.6

sWAR

1.4

28.2

of 72 qualified 1958 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

114.2

OPS+

115.6

72.5

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
1948	19	56	50	6	9	1	1	1	9	6	13	1	0	.180	.268	.300	.568	49.4	52.9	.275	-0.2
1949	103	344	301	56	82	6	6	10	45	37	42	2	2	.272	.354	.432	.786	106.6	109.3	.370	1.0
1950	113	458	415	72	133	16	2	13	70	35	41	2	3	.320	.380	.463	.843	117.9	119.6	.388	2.0
1951	118	394	348	53	103	19	3	10	54	42	39	5	2	.296	.373	.454	.827	127.7	128.7	.383	2.1
1952	141	615	553	86	162	31	6	17	74	50	61	6	7	.293	.355	.463	.818	132.6	135.0	.376	3.7
1953	133	503	437	77	133	20	6	10	57	59	45	2	3	.304	.394	.446	.841	135.0	132.7	.390	3.2
1954	114	423	377	73	111	16	5	12	54	40	42	4	4	.294	.360	.459	.818	129.3	130.0	.375	2.3
1955	139	563	492	97	137	20	5	20	53	56	65	8	4	.278	.360	.461	.821	124.8	124.1	.378	2.9
1956	147	612	539	96	130	18	7	26	84	59	72	4	2	.241	.316	.445	.761	100.9	104.7	.343	1.3
1957	137	535	479	70	124	22	9	18	65	42	64	7	2	.259	.321	.455	.776	111.9	114.0	.348	1.8
1958	128	490	452	62	121	22	6	12	50	32	56	3	2	.268	.316	.423	.739	106.0	106.9	.332	1.4
1959	114	380	341	44	81	20	0	9	39	33	54	4	2	.238	.307	.375	.682	90.8	90.8	.312	0.2
1960	95	285	255	30	70	15	0	3	31	21	36	1	0	.275	.326	.369	.695	84.2	85.8	.318	0.0
1961	43	118	106	11	28	3	1	3	18	9	8	1	0	.264	.319	.396	.715	86.6	87.6	.324	0.0

Career totals

1,544

5,776

5,145

833

1,424

229

164

RBI

703

521

638

.2768

OBP

.3457

SLG

.4391

OPS

.7848

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
1952-05-10	BOS @ NYY Gameday	6	4	5	1	0	2	6	12
1955-09-03	MIN @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	2	3	10
1950-06-25	NYY @ DET Gameday	5	1	5	1	0	1	4	9
1951-07-02	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	4	9
1956-09-08	MIN @ NYY Gameday	5	1	3	1	1	1	4	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1948-04-19	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1948-04-20	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1948-04-21	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1948-04-23	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1948-04-24	BOS @ NYY 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

3× 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.