Herb Pennock

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 160 lb

BornFebruary 10, 1894 · Kennett Square, PA, USA

MLB debutMay 14, 1912

Final gameAugust 27, 1934

Seasons22 (1912–1934)

Philadelphia Athletics 1912–1914; Boston Red Sox 1915; Philadelphia Athletics 1915; Boston Red Sox 1916–1917; Boston Red Sox 1919–1922; New York Yankees 1923–1933; Boston Red Sox 1934

Percentile snapshot

1931 season — qualified pitchers

SHO

247

189.3

ERA

4.28

WHIP

1.463

K/9

3.09

FIP

3.54

FIP-

85.2

ERA+

97.0

sWAR

1.7

of 101 qualified 1931 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

107.2

65.4

sWAR

44.5

98.4

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1912	17	16	15	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	6	0	.133	.133	.200	.333	-8.5	-3.1	.155	-0.3
1913	14	10	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	.111	.200	.111	.311	-5.0	-7.4	.174	-0.6
1914	28	59	56	7	12	0	2	0	9	2	11	0	.214	.241	.286	.527	50.1	59.8	.256	1.5
1915	16	24	24	2	6	2	0	0	3	0	7	0	.250	.250	.333	.583	64.6	75.4	.277	-1.8
1916	11	9	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.125	.222	.125	.347	7.1	6.1	.194	0.1
1917	24	33	24	2	4	0	0	0	2	7	5	0	.167	.375	.167	.542	95.5	68.1	.315	0.2
1919	32	89	75	7	13	4	0	0	7	6	12	0	.173	.253	.227	.480	38.6	39.1	.242	3.1
1920	38	94	77	7	20	3	0	0	6	9	18	0	.260	.345	.299	.644	80.0	75.2	.317	2.7
1921	32	96	85	9	18	8	0	1	11	6	10	0	.212	.272	.341	.613	54.3	57.7	.285	2.7
1922	32	71	65	5	9	1	1	0	2	4	9	0	.138	.188	.185	.373	-9.4	-2.2	.182	1.0
1923	35	100	83	11	16	3	0	0	7	9	8	0	.193	.272	.229	.501	33.5	33.1	.251	4.5
1924	40	119	101	13	16	2	0	2	9	7	13	1	.158	.220	.238	.458	13.5	18.5	.223	6.7
1925	47	110	99	6	20	1	1	0	7	2	7	0	.202	.218	.232	.450	9.2	15.7	.212	6.2
1926	40	112	85	8	18	2	0	0	6	10	8	0	.212	.302	.235	.537	46.7	43.5	.272	3.7
1927	34	85	69	6	15	2	0	0	6	3	10	0	.217	.250	.246	.496	28.9	31.9	.237	4.2
1928	28	84	74	1	15	0	0	0	9	3	7	0	.203	.234	.203	.436	14.5	17.9	.210	5.0
1929	27	61	51	4	9	0	0	0	1	4	6	0	.176	.236	.176	.413	12.3	11.0	.206	-0.1
1930	25	65	60	5	11	0	0	0	4	4	12	0	.183	.234	.183	.418	13.3	9.6	.204	1.6
1931	25	82	66	8	10	2	0	1	6	9	12	0	.152	.253	.227	.481	36.3	30.6	.239	1.7
1932	22	65	53	4	8	2	0	0	6	7	5	0	.151	.250	.189	.439	20.6	15.6	.223	1.2
1933	23	27	21	0	5	0	0	0	1	0	5	0	.238	.238	.238	.476	26.3	30.7	.221	-0.4
1934	30	15	14	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	.214	.214	.214	.429	-1.3	8.8	.199	1.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1912	17	2	1	2	2	1	0	48	25	30	38	1	50.0	4.50	1.560	6.84	3.67	114.6	71.1	-0.3
1913	14	3	2	1	0	1	0	30	19	22	17	4	33.3	5.13	1.560	4.59	5.01	175.1	55.8	-0.6
1914	28	14	11	4	3	8	3	136	47	65	90	1	151.7	2.79	1.325	5.34	2.57	95.6	96.2	1.5
1915	16	9	3	6	1	3	1	69	41	39	31	2	58.0	6.36	1.862	4.81	3.88	133.7	45.5	-1.8
1916	9	2	0	2	1	0	0	23	9	8	12	0	26.7	3.04	1.163	4.05	2.44	88.9	90.3	0.1
1917	24	5	5	5	1	4	1	90	37	23	35	2	100.7	3.31	1.123	3.13	2.48	95.9	78.1	0.2
1919	32	26	16	8	0	16	5	223	66	48	70	2	219.0	2.71	1.237	2.88	2.71	89.5	111.6	3.1
1920	37	31	16	13	2	19	4	244	99	61	68	9	242.3	3.68	1.259	2.53	3.63	99.8	98.8	2.7
1921	32	32	12	14	0	15	1	268	100	59	91	7	222.7	4.04	1.469	3.68	3.63	87.1	103.0	2.7
1922	32	26	10	17	1	15	1	230	97	74	59	7	202.0	4.32	1.505	2.63	3.93	98.0	92.7	1.0
1923	35	27	19	6	3	21	1	235	83	68	93	11	238.3	3.13	1.271	3.51	3.61	91.3	126.0	4.5
1924	40	34	21	9	3	25	4	302	90	64	101	13	286.3	2.83	1.278	3.17	3.69	88.0	148.2	6.7
1925	47	31	16	17	2	21	2	267	91	71	88	11	277.0	2.96	1.220	2.86	3.78	88.4	144.5	6.2
1926	40	33	23	11	2	19	1	294	107	43	78	11	266.3	3.62	1.265	2.64	3.40	87.1	108.0	3.7
1927	34	26	19	8	2	18	1	225	70	48	51	5	209.7	3.00	1.302	2.19	3.60	90.8	131.9	4.2
1928	28	24	17	6	3	18	5	215	60	40	53	2	211.0	2.56	1.209	2.26	3.22	83.1	151.5	5.0
1929	27	23	9	11	1	8	1	205	86	28	49	11	157.3	4.92	1.481	2.80	3.89	97.2	81.3	-0.1
1930	25	19	11	7	0	11	1	194	75	20	46	8	156.3	4.32	1.369	2.65	3.91	87.5	103.5	1.6
1931	25	25	11	6	0	12	1	247	90	30	65	7	189.3	4.28	1.463	3.09	3.54	85.2	97.0	1.7
1932	22	21	9	5	0	9	1	191	75	38	54	8	146.7	4.60	1.561	3.31	3.88	87.0	96.8	1.2
1933	23	5	7	4	4	2	1	96	40	21	22	4	65.0	5.54	1.800	3.05	4.12	102.9	72.3	-0.4
1934	30	2	2	0	1	1	0	68	21	16	16	2	62.0	3.05	1.355	2.32	3.83	82.2	153.0	1.6

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

620

1,426

1,214

108

232

RBI

103

178

.1911

OBP

.2532

SLG

.2348

OPS

.4880

Pitching

G (P)

617

219th-most career G (P)

420

114th-most career GS

240

58th-most career W

162

116th-most career L

247

83rd-most career CG

SHO

71st-most career SHO

3,572

65th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,227

376th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

916

152nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.598

WHIP

1.3484

K/9

3.09

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
1921-06-21	NYY @ BOS Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	1	2	6
1931-09-25	MIN @ NYY Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	1	2	5
1921-06-11	CWS @ BOS Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	0	2	4
1926-08-15	BOS @ NYY Gameday	3	0	3	1	0	0	1	4
1914-04-20	ATH @ BOS Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	4	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1914-05-25	BAL @ ATH Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	2	12
1914-08-31	CLE @ ATH Gameday	9.0	9	3	2	2	10
1921-05-31	BOS @ ATH Gameday	9.0	9	4	0	3	10
1915-04-24	ATH @ BOS Gameday	9.0	4	3	3	9	9
1924-08-17	CWS @ NYY Gameday	9.0	8	1	1	0	8

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

Hall of Fame, 1948 (BBWAA)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.