Herman Besse
Philadelphia Athletics 1940–1943; Philadelphia Athletics 1946
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 17 | 23 | 19 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .263 | .391 | .316 | .707 | 94.7 | 85.6 | .344 | -1.8 |
| 1941 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | -7.2 | 5.9 | .185 | -1.1 |
| 1942 | 34 | 57 | 53 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .226 | .281 | .245 | .526 | 43.6 | 47.2 | .259 | -2.3 |
| 1943 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -137.2 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1946 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .167 | .000 | .167 | -50.6 | -50.7 | .126 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 52 | 34 | 19 | 10 | 53.0 | 8.83 | 1.962 | 3.23 | 6.75 | 154.0 | 49.7 | -1.8 |
| 1941 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 22 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 19.7 | 10.07 | 2.034 | 3.66 | 6.42 | 154.3 | 41.3 | -1.1 |
| 1942 | 30 | 14 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 163 | 91 | 69 | 78 | 7 | 133.0 | 6.16 | 1.744 | 5.28 | 3.71 | 99.5 | 60.5 | -2.3 |
| 1943 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 16.3 | 3.31 | 1.347 | 1.65 | 4.49 | 135.0 | 100.6 | 0.0 |
| 1946 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 20.7 | 5.23 | 1.355 | 4.35 | 3.42 | 97.5 | 67.0 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-07-03 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 1940-07-20 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1942-04-30 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1942-09-02 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1942-08-28 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-07-05 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 8.0 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 1942-06-14 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 7.0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 1942-06-30 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| 1942-09-02 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| 1942-04-17 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 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.