MLB / Players

Hersh Martin

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb

BornSeptember 19, 1909 · Birmingham, AL, USA

MLB debutApril 23, 1937

Final gameSeptember 23, 1945

Seasons6 (1937–1945)

Philadelphia Phillies 1937–1940; New York Yankees 1944–1945

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified batters

117

32.4

479

31.5

408

31.5

42.3

109

33.3

42.3

69.4

64.9

RBI

56.8

76.6

47.7

41.4

28.8

.267

34.2

OBP

.368

70.3

SLG

.392

52.3

OPS

.760

60.4

wRC+

121.5

67.6

OPS+

117.2

wOBA

.368

64.9

sWAR

2.2

61.3

of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

10.8

87.8

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
1937	141	654	579	102	164	35	7	8	49	69	66	11	0	.283	.362	.409	.771	102.6	101.0	.358	2.6
1938	120	508	466	58	139	36	6	3	39	34	48	8	0	.298	.347	.421	.768	105.7	106.2	.353	2.2
1939	111	442	393	59	111	28	5	1	22	42	27	4	0	.282	.355	.387	.741	100.1	98.8	.347	1.5
1940	33	96	83	10	21	6	1	0	5	9	9	1	0	.253	.326	.349	.675	87.7	87.0	.317	0.2
1944	85	368	328	49	99	12	4	9	47	34	26	5	2	.302	.371	.445	.816	131.9	130.3	.384	2.2
1945	117	479	408	53	109	18	6	7	53	65	31	4	1	.267	.368	.392	.760	121.5	117.2	.368	2.2

Career totals

607

2,547

2,257

331

643

135

RBI

215

253

207

.2849

OBP

.3588

SLG

.4076

OPS

.7664

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
1944-09-04	ATH @ NYY Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	2	5	0	11
1944-07-15	BOS @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	5	0	9
1944-09-25	NYY @ CWS Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	5	1	9
1937-07-01	PHI @ SF Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	2	0	8
1938-05-16	SF @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	1	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1937-04-19	PHI @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-19	PHI @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-23	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-24	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-25	LAD @ PHI 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.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.