Hank Majeski

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 174 lb

BornDecember 13, 1916 · Staten Island, NY, USA

MLB debutMay 17, 1939

Final gameJuly 26, 1955

Seasons13 (1939–1955)

Boston Bees 1939–1940; Boston Braves 1941; New York Yankees 1946; Philadelphia Athletics 1946–1949; Chicago White Sox 1950–1951; Philadelphia Athletics 1951; Cleveland Indians 1952; Philadelphia Athletics 1952; Cleveland Indians 1953–1954; Baltimore Orioles 1955; Cleveland Indians 1955

Percentile snapshot

1949 season — qualified batters

114

487

5.3

448

14.7

124

54.7

49.3

42.7

RBI

42.7

9.3

89.3

.277

37.3

OBP

.326

SLG

.417

49.3

OPS

.744

30.7

wRC+

92.5

OPS+

98.4

wOBA

.348

33.3

sWAR

1.3

26.7

of 76 qualified 1949 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

98.1

37.9

OPS+

99.8

40.9

sWAR

13.0

89.7

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
1939	106	394	367	35	100	16	1	7	54	18	30	2	0	.272	.310	.379	.689	86.3	89.9	.316	0.8
1940	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.1	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1941	19	56	55	5	8	5	0	0	3	1	13	0	0	.145	.161	.236	.397	-1.6	12.3	.182	-0.5
1946	86	305	276	26	67	14	4	1	25	26	16	3	2	.243	.310	.333	.644	77.2	79.9	.306	0.3
1947	141	545	479	54	134	26	5	8	72	53	31	1	0	.280	.358	.405	.763	110.6	109.9	.360	2.7
1948	148	646	590	88	183	41	4	12	120	48	43	2	1	.310	.368	.454	.822	116.1	118.3	.383	3.7
1949	114	487	448	62	124	26	5	9	67	29	23	0	1	.277	.326	.417	.744	92.5	98.4	.348	1.3
1950	122	467	414	47	128	18	2	6	46	42	34	1	4	.309	.377	.406	.783	103.7	103.3	.367	1.9
1951	101	400	358	45	101	23	4	5	48	36	24	1	2	.282	.351	.411	.762	102.7	103.7	.356	1.6
1952	70	201	171	21	46	4	2	2	29	26	17	0	1	.269	.369	.351	.720	103.2	99.0	.348	0.8
1953	50	55	50	6	15	1	0	2	12	3	8	0	0	.300	.352	.440	.792	116.0	117.8	.363	0.3
1954	57	129	121	10	34	4	0	3	17	7	14	0	0	.281	.320	.388	.709	92.2	95.3	.328	0.4
1955	52	102	89	5	16	3	0	2	8	10	7	0	0	.180	.275	.281	.555	49.0	53.4	.266	-0.3

Career totals

1,069

3,790

3,421

404

956

181

RBI

501

299

260

.2795

OBP

.3420

SLG

.3981

OPS

.7401

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	TB
1949-06-02	ATH @ DET Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	1	3	9
1951-07-31	CWS @ ATH Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	1	1	8
1950-04-30	DET @ CWS Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	4	8
1949-07-18	ATH @ DET Gameday	6	1	4	0	0	1	3	7
1939-08-09	ATL @ SF Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	2	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-09-10	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-09-11	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-09-11	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-09-13	CHC @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-09-14	CHC @ ATL 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.