MLB / Players

Hank Greenberg

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 210 lb

BornJanuary 1, 1911 · New York, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 14, 1930

Final gameSeptember 18, 1947

Seasons13 (1930–1947)

Detroit Tigers 1930; Detroit Tigers 1933–1941; Detroit Tigers 1945–1946; Pittsburgh Pirates 1947

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified batters

125

23.3

510

27.2

402

19.4

55.3

100

17.5

12.6

6.8

90.3

RBI

104

95.1

7.8

37.9

.249

12.6

OBP

.408

90.3

SLG

.478

82.5

OPS

.885

86.4

wRC+

135.2

81.6

OPS+

130.4

78.6

wOBA

.408

88.3

sWAR

3.0

of 104 qualified 1947 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

157.1

98.9

OPS+

159.5

sWAR

53.3

99.1

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
1930	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-111.7	-100.0	.000	0.0
1933	117	498	449	59	135	33	3	12	87	46	78	6	2	.301	.367	.468	.835	117.6	119.3	.382	1.8
1934	153	667	593	118	201	63	7	26	139	63	93	9	5	.339	.404	.600	1.005	153.3	158.6	.448	5.5
1935	152	710	619	121	203	46	16	36	170	87	91	4	3	.328	.411	.628	1.039	165.4	171.2	.459	6.9
1936	12	55	46	10	16	6	2	1	16	9	6	1	0	.348	.455	.630	1.085	160.9	165.9	.480	0.5
1937	154	701	594	137	200	49	14	40	183	102	101	8	3	.337	.436	.668	1.105	169.3	173.4	.480	7.2
1938	155	681	556	144	175	23	4	58	146	119	92	7	5	.315	.438	.683	1.122	164.1	170.2	.486	6.6
1939	138	604	500	112	156	42	7	33	112	91	95	8	3	.312	.420	.622	1.042	153.3	157.2	.458	5.0
1940	148	670	573	129	195	50	8	41	150	93	75	6	3	.340	.433	.670	1.103	171.7	172.6	.477	7.6
1941	19	83	67	12	18	5	1	2	12	16	12	1	0	.269	.410	.463	.872	126.6	122.0	.406	0.5
1945	78	312	270	47	84	20	2	13	60	42	40	3	1	.311	.404	.544	.948	172.6	168.9	.441	3.4
1946	142	604	523	91	145	29	5	44	127	80	88	5	1	.277	.373	.604	.977	165.3	164.4	.436	5.5
1947	125	510	402	71	100	13	2	25	74	104	73	0	0	.249	.408	.478	.885	135.2	130.4	.408	3.0

Career totals

1,394

6,096

5,193

1,051

314th-most career R

1,628

379

251st-most career 2B

382nd-most career 3B

331

124th-most career HR

RBI

1,276

127th-most career RBI

852

218th-most career BB

844

.3135

87th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4118

37th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.6050

10th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

1.0168

10th-highest career OPS

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
1937-05-30	BAL @ DET Gameday	5	4	5	1	0	2	5	1	12
1935-05-28	DET @ NYY Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	2	4	0	11
1938-05-25	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	2	2	0	11
1937-09-02	MIN @ DET Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	2	4	0	11
1938-09-17	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	2	5	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1930-04-15	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-17	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-18	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-19	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-20	CLE @ DET 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

Hall of Fame, 1956 (BBWAA)

2× Most Valuable Player5× 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.