Hank Steinbacher
Chicago White Sox 1937–1939
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 26 | 77 | 73 | 13 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 0 | .260 | .299 | .384 | .682 | 67.1 | 71.5 | .309 | -0.1 |
| 1938 | 106 | 444 | 399 | 59 | 132 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 61 | 41 | 19 | 1 | 3 | .331 | .393 | .459 | .852 | 112.2 | 112.1 | .391 | 1.7 |
| 1939 | 71 | 133 | 111 | 16 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 21 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .171 | .303 | .234 | .537 | 47.6 | 39.6 | .273 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-07-15 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 1938-06-22 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 6 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1938-07-26 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1938-04-27 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1938-07-14 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-04-21 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-04-22 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-04-23 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-04-25 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-04-28 | CWS @ CLE 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.