Herman Bell
St. Louis Cardinals 1924; St. Louis Cardinals 1926–1927; St. Louis Cardinals 1929–1930; New York Giants 1932–1934
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 28 | 36 | 31 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .065 | .194 | .065 | .259 | -20.8 | -27.0 | .156 | -0.6 |
| 1926 | 27 | 29 | 25 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .120 | .214 | .120 | .334 | -8.5 | -9.2 | .181 | 1.4 |
| 1927 | 25 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .182 | -68.0 | -51.5 | .085 | 0.5 |
| 1929 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -117.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1930 | 39 | 31 | 26 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .077 | .143 | .077 | .220 | -46.8 | -45.2 | .118 | 2.2 |
| 1932 | 35 | 37 | 34 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .088 | .139 | .088 | .227 | -42.9 | -36.4 | .116 | 1.1 |
| 1933 | 38 | 32 | 29 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .138 | .194 | .138 | .331 | -9.0 | -2.6 | .168 | 2.5 |
| 1934 | 22 | 21 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .105 | .150 | .105 | .255 | -33.9 | -28.8 | .129 | 0.6 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 28 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 124 | 62 | 29 | 29 | 5 | 113.3 | 4.92 | 1.350 | 2.30 | 3.91 | 103.2 | 77.0 | -0.6 |
| 1926 | 27 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 82 | 30 | 17 | 27 | 1 | 85.0 | 3.18 | 1.165 | 2.86 | 3.09 | 79.0 | 123.4 | 1.4 |
| 1927 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 25 | 22 | 31 | 5 | 57.3 | 3.92 | 1.622 | 4.87 | 4.25 | 107.0 | 101.1 | 0.5 |
| 1929 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 13.0 | 6.92 | 1.769 | 2.77 | 4.62 | 98.1 | 68.0 | -0.2 |
| 1930 | 39 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 143 | 50 | 23 | 42 | 4 | 115.3 | 3.90 | 1.439 | 3.28 | 3.92 | 77.8 | 129.3 | 2.2 |
| 1932 | 35 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 132 | 49 | 16 | 25 | 12 | 120.0 | 3.68 | 1.233 | 1.88 | 4.24 | 112.7 | 102.4 | 1.1 |
| 1933 | 38 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 100 | 24 | 20 | 24 | 4 | 105.3 | 2.05 | 1.139 | 2.05 | 3.23 | 99.9 | 157.8 | 2.5 |
| 1934 | 22 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 22 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 54.0 | 3.67 | 1.556 | 1.50 | 4.01 | 103.1 | 106.1 | 0.6 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926-05-04 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1932-06-25 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1932-06-30 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1924-05-15 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1924-06-04 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933-06-03 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1932-06-25 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 6.1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 1924-08-28 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 5.0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1927-07-01 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 4.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1927-09-13 | SF @ STL Gameday | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 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.