MLB / Players

Heinie Zimmerman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 176 lb

BornFebruary 9, 1887 · New York, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1907

Final gameSeptember 10, 1919

Seasons13 (1907–1919)

Chicago Cubs 1907–1916; New York Giants 1916–1919

Percentile snapshot

1919 season — qualified batters

123

490

41.1

444

113

40.3

64.5

RBI

76.6

33.1

33.9

.255

27.4

OBP

.296

10.5

SLG

.354

44.4

OPS

.649

27.4

wRC+

94.1

32.3

OPS+

96.8

37.1

wOBA

.307

21.8

sWAR

1.6

52.4

of 125 qualified 1919 batters (min 434 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

119.1

77.8

OPS+

121.7

81.8

sWAR

34.1

97.2

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
1907	5	9	9	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.222	.222	.333	.556	60.9	73.8	.263	0.0
1908	46	118	113	17	33	4	1	0	9	1	14	2	0	.292	.298	.345	.643	99.3	105.3	.307	0.4
1909	65	190	183	23	50	9	2	0	21	3	14	7	0	.273	.285	.344	.629	88.9	96.2	.302	0.5
1910	99	363	335	35	95	16	6	3	38	20	36	7	0	.284	.326	.394	.720	108.7	113.5	.345	1.9
1911	143	583	535	80	164	22	17	9	85	25	50	23	0	.307	.343	.462	.805	120.4	126.5	.375	3.5
1912	145	619	557	95	207	41	14	14	99	38	60	23	0	.372	.418	.571	.989	165.5	170.8	.455	7.1
1913	127	510	447	69	140	28	12	9	95	41	40	18	0	.313	.379	.490	.868	145.3	146.7	.403	4.7
1914	146	601	564	75	167	36	12	4	87	20	46	17	0	.296	.326	.424	.750	117.7	122.1	.353	3.7
1915	139	561	520	65	138	28	11	3	62	21	33	19	13	.265	.300	.379	.679	96.6	100.5	.320	2.0
1916	147	588	549	76	157	29	5	6	83	23	43	24	20	.286	.318	.390	.708	115.5	117.1	.333	3.4
1917	150	620	585	61	174	22	9	5	102	16	43	13	0	.297	.317	.391	.709	118.0	121.4	.333	3.7
1918	121	488	463	43	126	19	10	1	56	13	23	14	0	.272	.294	.363	.656	97.9	102.9	.311	1.6
1919	123	490	444	56	113	20	6	4	58	21	30	8	0	.255	.296	.354	.649	94.1	96.8	.307	1.6

Career totals

1,456

5,740

5,304

695

1,566

275

105

146th-most career 3B

RBI

796

242

432

175

455th-most career SB

.2952

302nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3306

SLG

.4195

OPS

.7501

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
1910-10-03	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	2	2	11
1911-06-11	ATL @ CHC Gameday	4	4	4	0	0	2	9	10
1913-08-16	CHC @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	6	10
1912-06-22	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	0	4	8
1915-07-06	CIN @ CHC Gameday	7	2	4	2	1	0	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1907-04-11	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-14	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-17	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-18	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-20	CHC @ 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.