MLB / Players

Hank Leiber

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 205 lb

BornJanuary 17, 1911 · Phoenix, AZ, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1933

Final gameSeptember 25, 1942

Seasons10 (1933–1942)

New York Giants 1933–1938; Chicago Cubs 1939–1941; New York Giants 1942

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified batters

117

35.3

491

38.1

440

51.1

133

46.8

52.5

14.4

80.6

RBI

79.9

55.4

7.9

5.8

42.4

.302

66.9

OBP

.371

61.2

SLG

.482

76.3

OPS

.853

72.7

wRC+

136.1

84.9

OPS+

135.8

84.2

wOBA

.387

71.9

sWAR

3.5

77.7

of 140 qualified 1940 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

123.3

83.8

OPS+

123.7

84.2

sWAR

19.1

93.2

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1933	6	10	10	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	3.3	16.2	.185	-0.1
1934	63	195	187	17	45	5	3	2	25	4	13	1	.241	.257	.332	.588	54.2	59.7	.265	-0.4
1935	154	680	613	110	203	37	4	22	107	48	29	0	.331	.389	.512	.901	143.8	144.5	.404	6.2
1936	101	384	337	44	94	19	7	9	67	37	41	1	.279	.352	.457	.809	118.5	119.4	.369	2.2
1937	51	202	184	24	54	7	3	4	32	15	27	1	.293	.347	.429	.776	109.6	110.4	.355	0.9
1938	98	394	360	50	97	18	4	12	65	31	45	0	.269	.327	.442	.769	108.2	110.1	.350	1.8
1939	112	431	365	65	113	16	1	24	88	59	42	1	.310	.411	.556	.967	158.8	157.1	.435	4.8
1940	117	491	440	68	133	24	2	17	86	45	68	1	.302	.371	.482	.853	136.1	135.8	.387	3.5
1941	53	184	162	20	35	5	0	7	25	16	25	0	.216	.291	.377	.667	86.4	89.5	.312	0.0
1942	58	169	147	11	32	6	0	4	23	19	27	0	.218	.315	.340	.656	93.0	91.9	.318	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1942	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	9	6	5	5	0	9.0	6.00	1.556	5.00	3.17	95.8	55.2	0.3

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

813

3,140

2,805

410

808

137

101

RBI

518

274

319

.2881

459th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3558

SLG

.4620

366th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8178

365th-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

6.000

WHIP

1.5556

K/9

5.00

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
1939-07-04	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	4	0	12
1935-08-18	CIN @ SF Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	1	1	0	11
1939-09-13	ATL @ CHC Gameday	4	4	4	0	0	2	6	1	10
1938-06-30	SF @ PHI Gameday	6	3	4	2	0	1	5	0	9
1940-07-21	PHI @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1942-09-25	PHI @ SF Gameday	9.0	9	9	6	5	3
1933-04-16	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1933-04-18	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1933-04-20	ATL @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1933-04-21	ATL @ SF Gameday	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

3× 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.