Hank Helf
Cleveland Indians 1938; Cleveland Indians 1940; St. Louis Browns 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 6 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .077 | .143 | .077 | .220 | -44.0 | -42.6 | .120 | -0.2 |
| 1940 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -116.7 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1946 | 71 | 194 | 182 | 17 | 35 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 21 | 9 | 40 | 0 | 1 | .192 | .234 | .352 | .586 | 46.1 | 58.5 | .269 | 0.0 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-06-22 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1946-05-19 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1946-07-04 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1946-06-16 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1946-08-06 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-04-19 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-20 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-21 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-22 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-23 | 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.