MLB / Players

Hersh Freeman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 3 in · 220 lb
BornJuly 1, 1928 · Gadsden, AL, USA
MLB debutSeptember 10, 1952
Final gameJune 7, 1958
Seasons6 (1952–1958)

Boston Red Sox 1952–1953; Boston Red Sox 1955; Cincinnati Redlegs 1955–1957; Chicago Cubs 1958; Cincinnati Redlegs 1958

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
5.0
79.2

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19524540200001000.500.600.5001.100222.4199.3.5250.3
19531811110100000300.091.091.091.182-80.2-51.9.084-0.3
19555519183310131300.167.211.389.59945.451.8.2613.2
19566421180110023400.056.190.111.302-18.8-17.9.1661.8
19575210101210000100.200.200.300.50016.929.0.2190.4
195812220000000100.000.000.000.000-133.9-100.0.000-0.4

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1952411001013555113.73.291.3173.293.90100.1118.40.3
19531821400050241715239.05.541.7183.463.7790.475.4-0.3
195554074110095223138393.32.121.3503.662.9770.5198.83.2
195664014518001124134502108.73.401.3444.142.5263.5116.71.8
195752072800904214361483.74.521.2433.874.44108.690.40.4
1958120010002715814320.76.531.6946.104.20105.761.3-0.4

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

G
205
PA
68
AB
63
R
4
H
9
2B
3
3B
0
HR
1
RBI
5
BB
5
SO
12
SB
0
BA
.1429
OBP
.2059
SLG
.2381
OPS
.4440

Pitching

G (P)
204
GS
3
W
30
L
16
SV
37
465th-most career SV
CG
1
SHO
0
IP
359
SO (P)
158
BB allowed
109
ERA
3.735
WHIP
1.3816
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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1955-08-07SF @ CIN Gameday111001304
1952-09-26MIN @ BOS Gameday302000002
1956-09-05CIN @ ATL Gameday201100202
1955-08-14CIN @ STL Gameday101100002
1957-07-26LAD @ CIN Gameday111100002

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1958-05-06CIN @ CHC Gameday5.1200250
1957-07-02CIN @ CHC Gameday4.1633050
1952-09-26MIN @ BOS Gameday9.0411241
1956-07-30CIN @ PIT Gameday4.1300040
1953-04-19BOS @ MIN Gameday7.0733130

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.