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Herb Score

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornJune 7, 1933 · Rosedale, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1955

Final gameMay 4, 1962

Seasons8 (1955–1962)

Cleveland Indians 1955–1959; Chicago White Sox 1960–1962

Percentile snapshot

1959 season — qualified pitchers

1.8

17.9

14.3

46.4

39.3

SHO

12.5

123

100

55.4

115

1.8

147

85.7

10.7

160.7

1.8

ERA

4.71

3.6

WHIP

1.481

K/9

8.23

100

FIP

5.07

FIP-

135.5

ERA+

79.5

sWAR

-0.6

of 57 qualified 1959 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

13.3

89.9

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1955	33	95	84	5	10	1	0	0	2	3	40	1	.119	.149	.131	.280	-37.8	-23.8	.138	4.8
1956	35	100	87	11	16	3	0	1	8	9	32	1	.184	.260	.253	.513	34.4	36.1	.250	7.2
1957	5	13	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	6	0	.091	.231	.091	.322	-2.2	-7.7	.187	1.1
1958	12	13	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	5	0	.091	.231	.091	.322	0.3	-6.4	.185	0.3
1959	30	55	52	1	5	0	0	0	1	2	22	0	.096	.127	.096	.223	-45.8	-36.4	.110	-0.6
1960	23	35	30	2	3	0	1	0	1	3	16	0	.100	.182	.167	.348	-8.3	-3.8	.175	1.2
1961	8	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.4	-100.0	.000	-0.6
1962	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1955	33	32	16	10	0	11	2	158	72	154	245	18	227.3	2.85	1.372	9.70	3.35	84.3	139.3	4.8
1956	35	33	20	9	0	16	5	162	70	129	263	18	249.3	2.53	1.167	9.49	2.91	69.5	165.7	7.2
1957	5	5	2	1	0	3	1	18	8	26	39	0	36.0	2.00	1.222	9.75	2.48	66.3	187.1	1.1
1958	12	5	2	3	3	2	1	29	18	34	48	1	41.0	3.95	1.537	10.54	2.91	78.6	93.6	0.3
1959	30	25	9	11	0	9	1	123	84	115	147	28	160.7	4.71	1.481	8.23	5.07	135.5	79.5	-0.6
1960	23	22	5	10	0	5	1	91	47	87	78	10	113.7	3.72	1.566	6.18	4.52	118.9	102.2	1.2
1961	8	5	1	2	0	1	0	22	18	24	14	3	24.3	6.66	1.890	5.18	5.91	150.3	59.1	-0.6
1962	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	3	4	3	1	6.0	4.50	1.667	4.50	5.68	145.6	86.7	0.0

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

150

318

281

RBI

126

.1281

OBP

.1881

SLG

.1601

OPS

.3482

Pitching

G (P)

150

127

SHO

858

SO (P)

837

BB allowed

573

ERA

3.355

WHIP

1.3771

K/9

8.78

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
1956-08-21	CLE @ NYY Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	2	1	5
1960-07-18	BOS @ CWS Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	1	0	4
1956-09-14	BOS @ CLE Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	3
1955-04-19	CLE @ ATH Gameday	5	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	2
1955-08-18	CLE @ DET Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1955-05-01	BOS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	4	16	0
1956-05-19	MIN @ CLE Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	7	15	1
1956-08-12	CLE @ ATH Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	3	14	0
1956-09-18	MIN @ CLE Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	7	14	0
1959-07-03	CLE @ ATH Gameday	9.0	5	4	4	5	14	1

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

1× Rookie of the Year2× All-Star

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