MLB / Players

Herb Souell

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 150 lb

BornFebruary 5, 1913 · West Monroe, LA, USA

Seasons9 (1940–1948)

Kansas City Monarchs 1940–1948

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified batters

9.7

278

13.6

257

15.5

19.4

13.6

1.9

6.8

RBI

12.6

4.9

83.5

95.1

37.9

.331

94.2

OBP

.379

70.9

SLG

.416

54.4

OPS

.795

60.2

wRC+

110.7

53.4

OPS+

113.9

58.3

wOBA

.379

sWAR

1.3

of 104 qualified 1947 batters (min 235 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.5

82.2

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
1940	35	139	122	19	38	5	1	0	15	16	1	8	.311	.396	.369	.765	128.2	130.7	.382	1.0
1941	4	12	12	2	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	.167	.167	.250	.417	22.7	23.0	.194	-0.1
1942	32	138	130	22	37	4	0	0	11	7	0	4	.285	.326	.315	.641	92.6	91.4	.307	0.4
1943	54	229	208	31	52	7	2	0	14	16	0	7	.250	.307	.303	.610	89.2	87.3	.299	0.6
1944	53	219	200	33	57	5	2	2	17	18	0	4	.285	.344	.360	.704	117.7	118.3	.344	1.3
1945	47	205	186	39	59	8	5	1	33	10	0	4	.317	.358	.430	.788	123.9	130.1	.368	1.3
1946	39	165	156	18	40	2	0	0	13	9	0	7	.256	.297	.269	.566	70.5	67.2	.281	0.0
1947	61	278	257	52	85	5	7	1	32	16	1	16	.331	.379	.416	.795	110.7	113.9	.379	1.3
1948	46	211	196	41	56	8	6	2	22	14	0	6	.286	.336	.418	.755	98.7	101.3	.350	0.7

Career totals

371

1,596

1,467

257

426

RBI

159

106

.2904

OBP

.3424

SLG

.3647

OPS

.7071

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
1948-09-01	CLB @ KCM Gameday	6	3	5	1	2	0	4	10
1947-06-10	IC @ KCM Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	5	7
1945-07-30	CAG @ KCM Gameday	4	3	2	0	1	1	1	7
1947-09-25	IC @ KCM Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	0	1	6
1948-07-25	IC @ KCM Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1940-05-08	KCM @ HSL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-05-12	KCM @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-05-12	KCM @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-05-13	KCM @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-05-16	KCM @ MEM 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.

Honors

4× 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.