Hank Gornicki
Chicago Cubs 1941; St. Louis Cardinals 1941; Pittsburgh Pirates 1942–1943; Pittsburgh Pirates 1946
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 26.8 | 38.4 | .234 | 0.2 |
| 1942 | 25 | 39 | 35 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .114 | .162 | .200 | .362 | -10.9 | 4.6 | .176 | 2.2 |
| 1943 | 42 | 42 | 40 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .175 | .175 | .225 | .400 | -8.0 | 13.3 | .186 | 0.4 |
| 1946 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -144.7 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 13.3 | 3.38 | 1.350 | 5.40 | 3.62 | 95.9 | 110.8 | 0.2 |
| 1942 | 25 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 89 | 32 | 40 | 48 | 2 | 112.0 | 2.57 | 1.152 | 3.86 | 2.76 | 81.5 | 131.7 | 2.2 |
| 1943 | 42 | 19 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 165 | 65 | 47 | 63 | 10 | 147.0 | 3.98 | 1.442 | 3.86 | 3.50 | 100.7 | 87.4 | 0.4 |
| 1946 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 12.7 | 3.55 | 1.816 | 2.84 | 4.29 | 121.9 | 99.2 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-08-27 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1943-07-30 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1943-07-11 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1941-05-03 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1943-08-29 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-08-19 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1943-08-17 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1943-07-18 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 6.2 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1942-08-31 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 11.0 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 0 |
| 1941-05-03 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 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.