Hersh Freeman
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .600 | .500 | 1.100 | 222.4 | 199.3 | .525 | 0.3 |
| 1953 | 18 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .182 | -80.2 | -51.9 | .084 | -0.3 |
| 1955 | 55 | 19 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .211 | .389 | .599 | 45.4 | 51.8 | .261 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 64 | 21 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .056 | .190 | .111 | .302 | -18.8 | -17.9 | .166 | 1.8 |
| 1957 | 52 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .300 | .500 | 16.9 | 29.0 | .219 | 0.4 |
| 1958 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -133.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 13.7 | 3.29 | 1.317 | 3.29 | 3.90 | 100.1 | 118.4 | 0.3 |
| 1953 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 24 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 39.0 | 5.54 | 1.718 | 3.46 | 3.77 | 90.4 | 75.4 | -0.3 |
| 1955 | 54 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 22 | 31 | 38 | 3 | 93.3 | 2.12 | 1.350 | 3.66 | 2.97 | 70.5 | 198.8 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 64 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 112 | 41 | 34 | 50 | 2 | 108.7 | 3.40 | 1.344 | 4.14 | 2.52 | 63.5 | 116.7 | 1.8 |
| 1957 | 52 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 42 | 14 | 36 | 14 | 83.7 | 4.52 | 1.243 | 3.87 | 4.44 | 108.6 | 90.4 | 0.4 |
| 1958 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 15 | 8 | 14 | 3 | 20.7 | 6.53 | 1.694 | 6.10 | 4.20 | 105.7 | 61.3 | -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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-08-07 | SF @ CIN Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1952-09-26 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1956-09-05 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1955-08-14 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1957-07-26 | LAD @ CIN Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958-05-06 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 5.1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1957-07-02 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 4.1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 1952-09-26 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 1956-07-30 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 4.1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1953-04-19 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 7.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 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.