Herm Wehmeier

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornFebruary 18, 1927 · Cincinnati, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 7, 1945

Final gameJuly 23, 1958

Seasons13 (1945–1958)

Cincinnati Reds 1945; Cincinnati Reds 1947–1953; Cincinnati Redlegs 1954; Philadelphia Phillies 1954–1956; St. Louis Cardinals 1956–1957; Detroit Tigers 1958; St. Louis Cardinals 1958

Percentile snapshot

1957 season — qualified pitchers

43.6

3.6

18.2

87.3

5.5

SHO

165

87.3

54.5

72.7

27.3

165.0

9.1

ERA

4.31

12.7

WHIP

1.327

K/9

4.96

61.8

FIP

4.40

3.6

FIP-

111.5

7.3

ERA+

91.5

16.4

sWAR

0.9

14.5

of 56 qualified 1957 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

83.1

0.8

sWAR

1.8

68.9

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1945	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.3	-100.0	.000	-0.5
1947	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1948	36	59	55	4	5	1	0	0	2	1	13	.091	.107	.109	.216	-58.5	-40.8	.103	-2.2
1949	36	85	78	9	20	1	0	0	4	1	17	.256	.275	.269	.544	38.1	45.5	.253	0.9
1950	54	94	92	8	14	3	0	0	3	1	19	.152	.161	.185	.346	-26.1	-9.5	.157	-1.8
1951	46	62	59	8	17	2	0	0	6	1	8	.288	.300	.322	.622	59.5	66.1	.284	2.8
1952	41	70	64	10	12	1	0	1	5	4	16	.188	.235	.250	.485	26.2	34.5	.229	-1.1
1953	29	21	20	1	4	0	0	0	0	1	6	.200	.238	.200	.438	7.6	14.8	.207	-1.7
1954	38	67	59	2	6	0	1	0	2	2	24	.102	.131	.136	.267	-49.8	-29.3	.126	0.7
1955	34	80	72	10	20	1	1	0	7	2	26	.278	.299	.319	.618	63.5	66.2	.279	1.3
1956	45	69	66	6	13	3	0	2	8	2	20	.197	.221	.333	.554	40.3	46.6	.245	2.3
1957	40	60	59	9	12	0	1	0	3	0	14	.203	.200	.237	.437	3.4	16.4	.194	0.9
1958	10	9	8	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	2	.125	.222	.250	.472	21.9	17.0	.225	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1945	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	10	7	4	0	0	5.0	12.60	2.800	0.00	5.04	137.0	29.2	-0.5
1947	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0.00	.000	0.00	2.57	63.5	—	0.1
1948	33	24	11	8	0	6	0	179	96	75	56	21	147.3	5.86	1.724	3.42	5.23	134.8	66.1	-2.2
1949	33	29	11	12	0	11	1	202	111	117	80	20	213.3	4.68	1.495	3.38	4.74	115.8	87.5	0.9
1950	41	32	10	18	4	12	0	255	145	135	121	27	230.0	5.67	1.696	4.73	4.74	114.0	73.4	-1.8
1951	39	22	7	10	2	10	2	167	76	89	93	15	184.7	3.70	1.386	4.53	3.94	98.1	108.4	2.8
1952	33	26	9	11	0	6	1	197	109	103	83	23	190.3	5.15	1.576	3.92	4.85	129.7	72.5	-1.1
1953	28	10	1	6	0	2	0	100	65	47	32	20	81.7	7.16	1.800	3.53	6.74	154.9	60.8	-1.7
1954	37	20	10	11	2	10	2	153	84	72	62	16	171.7	4.40	1.311	3.25	4.20	103.4	91.9	0.7
1955	31	29	10	12	0	10	1	176	95	67	85	21	193.7	4.41	1.255	3.95	3.91	98.4	89.9	1.3
1956	37	22	12	11	1	7	2	168	79	82	76	18	190.7	3.73	1.311	3.59	3.97	105.0	101.3	2.3
1957	36	18	10	7	0	5	0	165	79	54	91	25	165.0	4.31	1.327	4.96	4.40	111.5	91.5	0.9
1958	10	6	1	1	0	0	0	34	15	7	15	4	28.7	4.71	1.430	4.71	3.96	98.3	85.3	0.1

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

413

677

633

124

RBI

166

.1959

OBP

.2171

SLG

.2401

OPS

.4572

Pitching

G (P)

361

240

108

463rd-most career L

SHO

1,803

SO (P)

794

BB allowed

852

202nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.797

WHIP

1.4742

K/9

3.96

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1956-07-26	STL @ PHI Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	3	0	5
1956-09-11	STL @ PHI Gameday	3	1	3	1	0	0	0	4
1956-09-23	STL @ CIN Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	2	0	4
1952-08-11	CIN @ PIT Gameday	2	2	1	0	1	1	1	4
1955-07-31	PHI @ CHC Gameday	3	0	3	0	0	2	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1957-05-02	STL @ LAD Gameday	12.0	9	2	2	4	12	0
1957-09-04	ATL @ STL Gameday	12.0	9	4	4	2	8	2
1950-08-16	CIN @ CHC Gameday	11.1	11	4	4	6	8	1
1955-05-27	PHI @ PIT Gameday	10.0	7	2	2	2	8	0
1950-05-21	CIN @ LAD Gameday	9.0	10	9	9	9	8	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.