MLB / Players

Hank Gornicki

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 145 lb
BornJanuary 14, 1911 · Niagara Falls, NY, USA
MLB debutApril 17, 1941
Final gameSeptember 24, 1946
Seasons4 (1941–1946)

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
2.9
73.5

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19415440100010100.250.250.250.50026.838.4.2340.2
194225393564001221200.114.162.200.362-10.94.6.1762.2
194342424037200201600.175.175.225.400-8.013.3.1860.4
19467330000000200.000.000.000.000-144.7-100.0.0000.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
194151100119598013.33.381.3505.403.6295.9110.80.2
1942251456272893240482112.02.571.1523.862.7681.5131.72.2
1943421991344116565476310147.03.981.4423.863.50100.787.40.4
19467000000125114012.73.551.8162.844.29121.999.20.1

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

G
79
PA
88
AB
82
R
9
H
12
2B
2
3B
0
HR
1
RBI
5
BB
2
SO
31
SB
0
BA
.1463
OBP
.1667
SLG
.2073
OPS
.3740

Pitching

G (P)
79
GS
34
W
15
L
19
SV
6
CG
12
SHO
4
IP
285
SO (P)
123
BB allowed
107
ERA
3.379
WHIP
1.3404
K/9
3.88

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1942-08-27ATL @ PIT Gameday322001205
1943-07-30SF @ PIT Gameday312100003
1943-07-11PIT @ LAD Gameday301100002
1941-05-03STL @ PHI Gameday401000101
1943-08-29CHC @ PIT Gameday301000101

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1942-08-19PIT @ CIN Gameday9.0822370
1943-08-17PIT @ ATL Gameday9.0600260
1943-07-18STL @ PIT Gameday6.21175260
1942-08-31LAD @ PIT Gameday11.0954950
1941-05-03STL @ PHI Gameday9.0100550

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.