Hank Sauer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 198 lb

BornMarch 17, 1917 · Pittsburgh, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1941

Final gameAugust 17, 1959

Seasons15 (1941–1959)

Cincinnati Reds 1941–1942; Cincinnati Reds 1945; Cincinnati Reds 1948; Chicago Cubs 1949; Cincinnati Reds 1949; Chicago Cubs 1950–1955; St. Louis Cardinals 1956; New York Giants 1957; San Francisco Giants 1958–1959

Percentile snapshot

1954 season — qualified batters

142

44.4

605

49.4

520

43.2

75.3

150

51.9

22.2

96.3

RBI

103

85.2

66.7

19.8

77.8

.288

59.3

OBP

.375

75.3

SLG

.563

91.4

OPS

.938

90.1

wRC+

139.7

85.2

OPS+

139.1

wOBA

.406

87.7

sWAR

4.2

of 82 qualified 1954 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

121.7

81.3

OPS+

122.6

82.9

sWAR

26.0

95.6

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
1941	9	34	33	4	10	4	0	0	5	1	4	0	0	.303	.324	.424	.748	107.0	111.4	.344	0.1
1942	7	22	20	4	5	0	0	2	4	2	2	0	0	.250	.318	.550	.868	148.8	153.8	.394	0.2
1945	31	122	116	18	34	1	0	5	20	6	16	2	0	.293	.328	.431	.759	109.0	113.4	.352	0.4
1948	145	598	530	78	138	22	1	35	97	60	85	2	0	.260	.340	.504	.844	125.2	128.0	.378	3.1
1949	138	568	509	81	140	23	1	31	99	55	66	0	0	.275	.349	.507	.856	125.8	127.9	.382	3.0
1950	145	603	540	85	148	32	2	32	103	60	67	1	0	.274	.350	.519	.868	123.2	125.0	.382	3.0
1951	141	574	525	77	138	19	4	30	89	45	77	2	1	.263	.325	.486	.810	110.1	112.8	.359	1.9
1952	151	649	567	89	153	31	3	37	121	77	92	1	2	.270	.361	.531	.892	142.5	142.2	.398	4.8
1953	108	447	395	61	104	16	5	19	60	50	56	0	0	.263	.349	.473	.822	108.8	109.0	.363	1.5
1954	142	605	520	98	150	18	1	41	103	70	68	2	1	.288	.375	.563	.938	139.7	139.1	.406	4.2
1955	79	290	261	29	55	8	1	12	28	26	47	0	0	.211	.286	.387	.673	76.3	75.9	.303	-0.2
1956	75	181	151	11	45	4	0	5	24	25	31	0	0	.298	.403	.424	.827	128.2	123.1	.373	1.0
1957	127	429	378	46	98	14	1	26	76	49	59	1	0	.259	.343	.508	.851	127.4	125.4	.372	2.4
1958	88	277	236	27	59	8	0	12	46	35	37	0	0	.250	.354	.436	.790	112.6	109.6	.354	1.0
1959	13	15	15	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	7	0	0	.067	.067	.267	.333	-29.8	-14.2	.136	-0.2

Career totals

1,399

5,414

4,796

709

1,278

200

288

180th-most career HR

RBI

876

430th-most career RBI

561

714

.2665

OBP

.3465

SLG

.4962

140th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8427

231st-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
1950-06-25	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	3	4	2	0	2	4	1	12
1950-08-28	PHI @ CHC Gameday	3	3	3	0	0	3	4	1	12
1952-06-11	PHI @ CHC Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	3	0	12
1954-05-02	PIT @ CHC Gameday	4	4	4	1	0	2	3	1	11
1949-07-20	CHC @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	2	4	0	11

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1941-04-15	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-16	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-17	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-18	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-19	CIN @ PIT 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

1× Most Valuable Player2× 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.