Hank Borowy
New York Yankees 1942–1944; Chicago Cubs 1945; New York Yankees 1945; Chicago Cubs 1946–1948; Philadelphia Phillies 1949; Detroit Tigers 1950; Philadelphia Phillies 1950; Pittsburgh Pirates 1950; Detroit Tigers 1951
Percentile snapshot
1949 season — qualified pitchers
of 62 qualified 1949 pitchers (min 154 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 25 | 75 | 70 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .157 | .169 | .200 | .369 | -7.7 | 5.7 | .174 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 29 | 87 | 74 | 2 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .203 | .253 | .284 | .537 | 50.5 | 58.0 | .259 | 3.6 |
| 1944 | 35 | 100 | 90 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .161 | .189 | .350 | -17.7 | -1.1 | .168 | 4.8 |
| 1945 | 33 | 108 | 91 | 10 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .198 | .255 | .253 | .508 | 39.0 | 44.5 | .249 | 5.4 |
| 1946 | 33 | 80 | 72 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .181 | .192 | .264 | .456 | 12.5 | 30.6 | .211 | 0.9 |
| 1947 | 41 | 59 | 56 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .169 | .179 | .348 | -15.9 | -5.9 | .167 | 0.8 |
| 1948 | 39 | 38 | 36 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .263 | .306 | .569 | 49.8 | 55.7 | .264 | -0.1 |
| 1949 | 28 | 73 | 61 | 2 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .213 | .294 | .262 | .556 | 50.7 | 50.7 | .269 | 1.8 |
| 1950 | 27 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .154 | .154 | .308 | -40.6 | -21.2 | .142 | 0.3 |
| 1951 | 26 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.0 | -100.0 | .000 | -1.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 25 | 21 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 157 | 50 | 66 | 85 | 6 | 178.3 | 2.52 | 1.250 | 4.29 | 3.14 | 89.6 | 139.0 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 29 | 27 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 195 | 68 | 72 | 113 | 11 | 217.3 | 2.82 | 1.229 | 4.68 | 2.99 | 91.9 | 115.5 | 3.6 |
| 1944 | 35 | 30 | 17 | 12 | 2 | 19 | 3 | 224 | 74 | 88 | 107 | 15 | 252.7 | 2.64 | 1.235 | 3.81 | 3.52 | 100.5 | 132.8 | 4.8 |
| 1945 | 33 | 32 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 18 | 2 | 212 | 75 | 105 | 82 | 8 | 254.7 | 2.65 | 1.245 | 2.90 | 3.55 | 99.6 | 134.8 | 5.4 |
| 1946 | 32 | 28 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 220 | 84 | 61 | 95 | 9 | 201.0 | 3.76 | 1.398 | 4.25 | 2.88 | 87.1 | 88.0 | 0.9 |
| 1947 | 40 | 25 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 190 | 89 | 63 | 75 | 19 | 183.0 | 4.38 | 1.383 | 3.69 | 4.15 | 105.6 | 89.7 | 0.8 |
| 1948 | 39 | 17 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 156 | 69 | 49 | 50 | 9 | 127.0 | 4.89 | 1.614 | 3.54 | 3.86 | 100.3 | 78.6 | -0.1 |
| 1949 | 28 | 28 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 188 | 90 | 63 | 43 | 19 | 193.3 | 4.19 | 1.298 | 2.00 | 4.34 | 108.0 | 96.0 | 1.8 |
| 1950 | 27 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 60 | 34 | 29 | 24 | 9 | 64.3 | 4.76 | 1.383 | 3.36 | 5.06 | 113.4 | 93.9 | 0.3 |
| 1951 | 26 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 35 | 27 | 16 | 3 | 45.3 | 6.95 | 1.875 | 3.18 | 4.58 | 110.9 | 59.5 | -1.1 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-05-05 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 1945-04-22 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1949-05-21 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1943-09-09 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1943-06-13 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-05-30 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 8.1 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 0 |
| 1942-09-02 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 9.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| 1944-05-21 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 12.0 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 0 |
| 1943-06-06 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| 1943-07-23 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.