Hank Severeid

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornJune 1, 1891 · Story City, IA, USA

MLB debutMay 15, 1911

Final gameSeptember 25, 1926

Seasons15 (1911–1926)

Cincinnati Reds 1911–1913; St. Louis Browns 1915–1925; Washington Senators 1925; New York Yankees 1926; Washington Senators 1926

Percentile snapshot

1924 season — qualified batters

137

68.4

500

432

56.9

133

60.9

63.2

14.9

55.7

RBI

49.4

39.1

2.3

28.7

.308

60.9

OBP

.362

52.3

SLG

.398

47.1

OPS

.761

48.9

wRC+

94.5

37.9

OPS+

95.2

38.5

wOBA

.360

50.6

sWAR

2.3

68.4

of 175 qualified 1924 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

90.8

24.3

OPS+

91.3

25.2

sWAR

20.5

93.8

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
1911	37	60	56	5	17	6	1	0	10	3	6	0	0	.304	.350	.446	.796	121.8	127.0	.374	0.6
1912	50	126	114	10	27	0	3	0	13	8	11	0	0	.237	.287	.289	.576	60.4	60.9	.279	-0.1
1913	8	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.000	.143	.000	.143	-48.1	-57.3	.109	-0.1
1915	80	220	203	12	45	6	1	1	22	16	25	2	1	.222	.279	.276	.554	66.4	68.5	.277	0.4
1916	100	328	293	23	80	8	2	0	34	26	17	3	0	.273	.341	.314	.655	100.9	99.8	.328	2.0
1917	143	544	501	45	133	23	4	1	57	28	20	6	0	.265	.306	.333	.639	92.5	96.6	.313	2.7
1918	51	156	133	8	34	4	0	0	11	18	4	4	0	.256	.357	.286	.643	102.2	95.3	.332	1.0
1919	112	384	351	16	87	12	2	0	36	21	13	2	0	.248	.298	.293	.591	59.7	63.2	.287	0.3
1920	123	465	422	46	117	14	5	2	49	33	11	5	3	.277	.336	.348	.684	78.1	78.4	.326	1.2
1921	143	531	472	66	153	23	7	2	78	42	9	7	2	.324	.379	.415	.795	98.4	97.8	.371	2.6
1922	137	559	517	49	166	32	7	3	78	28	12	1	4	.321	.356	.427	.783	99.1	100.8	.361	2.9
1923	122	480	432	50	133	27	6	3	51	31	11	3	0	.308	.356	.419	.775	97.1	99.1	.362	2.3
1924	137	500	432	37	133	23	2	4	48	36	15	1	6	.308	.362	.398	.761	94.5	95.2	.360	2.3
1925	84	248	219	26	79	17	1	1	35	24	8	0	2	.361	.424	.461	.885	124.8	123.0	.414	2.1
1926	63	179	161	15	41	9	1	0	17	16	6	1	1	.255	.322	.323	.645	70.8	71.1	.310	0.4

Career totals

1,390

4,787

4,312

408

1,245

204

RBI

539

331

169

.2887

444th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3421

SLG

.3673

OPS

.7094

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
1921-05-18	MIN @ BAL Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	1	3	0	8
1923-05-31	BAL @ DET Gameday	5	2	5	2	0	0	2	0	7
1923-08-07	BAL @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	0	3	1	7
1921-08-06	BAL @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	2	0	7
1923-05-22	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	0	3	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1911-04-12	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-15	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-16	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-17	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-18	STL @ CIN 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.