Herman Franks
St. Louis Cardinals 1939; Brooklyn Dodgers 1940–1941; Philadelphia Athletics 1947–1948; New York Giants 1949
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 17 | 21 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .059 | .200 | .059 | .259 | -29.0 | -29.2 | .159 | -0.1 |
| 1940 | 65 | 154 | 131 | 11 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 0 | .183 | .296 | .237 | .533 | 49.4 | 46.0 | .267 | -0.1 |
| 1941 | 57 | 156 | 139 | 10 | 28 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .201 | .275 | .273 | .548 | 51.1 | 53.4 | .266 | 0.1 |
| 1947 | 8 | 19 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .368 | .333 | .702 | 103.3 | 94.2 | .350 | 0.1 |
| 1948 | 40 | 120 | 98 | 10 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .224 | .345 | .347 | .692 | 87.2 | 84.6 | .338 | 0.4 |
| 1949 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .667 | .667 | .667 | 1.333 | 277.9 | 259.5 | .612 | 0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-06-23 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 1940-04-23 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1948-08-07 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1948-05-23 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1947-09-23 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-04-18 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-21 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-22 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-23 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-25 | CIN @ STL 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.