Heinie Groh

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 158 lb

BornSeptember 18, 1889 · Rochester, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 12, 1912

Final gameOctober 2, 1927

Seasons16 (1912–1927)

New York Giants 1912; Cincinnati Reds 1913; New York Giants 1913; Cincinnati Reds 1914–1921; New York Giants 1922–1926; Pittsburgh Pirates 1927

Percentile snapshot

1924 season — qualified batters

145

80.5

635

85.1

559

83.3

77.6

157

75.3

86.2

27.6

30.5

RBI

47.1

54.6

28.7

.281

35.1

OBP

.354

45.4

SLG

.360

27.6

OPS

.713

33.9

wRC+

94.6

38.5

OPS+

92.1

35.1

wOBA

.336

31.6

sWAR

1.9

60.3

of 175 qualified 1924 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

121.6

80.9

OPS+

119.7

79.1

sWAR

46.6

98.6

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
1912	27	56	48	8	13	2	1	0	3	8	7	6	0	.271	.375	.354	.729	104.9	100.2	.358	0.3
1913	121	460	399	51	112	19	5	3	48	38	37	24	0	.281	.349	.376	.725	107.8	107.0	.346	2.2
1914	139	549	455	59	131	18	4	2	32	64	28	24	0	.288	.391	.358	.749	126.0	119.5	.370	3.8
1915	160	677	587	72	170	32	9	3	50	50	33	12	17	.290	.354	.390	.745	124.1	122.4	.356	4.5
1916	149	652	553	85	149	24	14	2	28	84	34	13	0	.269	.370	.374	.744	135.6	128.6	.360	5.3
1917	156	685	599	91	182	39	11	1	53	71	30	15	0	.304	.385	.411	.796	151.3	146.5	.381	6.9
1918	126	567	493	86	158	28	3	1	37	54	24	11	0	.320	.395	.396	.791	148.7	143.7	.384	5.5
1919	122	523	448	79	139	17	11	5	63	56	26	21	0	.310	.392	.431	.823	156.4	152.0	.392	5.6
1920	145	632	550	86	164	28	12	0	49	60	29	16	19	.298	.375	.393	.768	128.4	124.5	.366	4.6
1921	97	416	357	54	118	19	6	0	48	36	17	22	14	.331	.398	.417	.815	125.0	121.8	.379	2.8
1922	115	497	426	63	113	21	3	3	51	53	21	5	6	.265	.353	.350	.703	86.4	82.8	.335	0.9
1923	123	540	465	91	135	22	5	4	48	60	22	3	4	.290	.379	.385	.763	108.4	104.7	.361	2.5
1924	145	635	559	82	157	32	3	2	46	52	29	8	6	.281	.354	.360	.713	94.6	92.1	.336	1.9
1925	25	72	65	7	15	4	0	0	4	6	3	0	0	.231	.296	.292	.588	55.4	54.3	.278	-0.1
1926	12	37	35	2	8	2	0	0	3	2	3	0	0	.229	.270	.286	.556	47.9	50.9	.263	-0.1
1927	14	37	35	2	10	1	0	0	3	2	2	0	0	.286	.324	.314	.639	65.9	67.4	.303	0.0

Career totals

1,676

7,035

452nd-most career PA

6,074

496th-most career AB

918

458th-most career R

1,774

430th-most career H

308

455th-most career 2B

236th-most career 3B

RBI

566

696

387th-most career BB

345

180

439th-most career SB

.2921

360th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3725

258th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3843

OPS

.7568

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
1915-07-05	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	4	5	1	1	1	0	0	11
1916-06-03	CIN @ SF Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	1	0	8
1923-07-21	STL @ SF Gameday	5	1	5	2	0	0	3	0	7
1918-06-22	CIN @ STL Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	1	0	0	7
1917-08-18	CIN @ LAD Gameday	3	1	3	2	1	0	2	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1912-04-11	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-12	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-13	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-15	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-16	SF @ 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.