MLB / Players

Hy Vandenberg

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 220 lb

BornMarch 17, 1906 · Abilene, KS, USA

MLB debutJune 8, 1935

Final gameSeptember 29, 1945

Seasons7 (1935–1945)

Boston Red Sox 1935; New York Giants 1937–1940; Chicago Cubs 1944–1945

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

0.7

60.9

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	3B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1935	3	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	446.2	407.4	.928	-0.8
1937	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.1	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1938	6	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.0	-100.0	.000	-0.6
1939	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.1	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1940	13	10	8	0	1	0	1	1	0	.125	.222	.125	.347	-2.7	-2.4	.185	0.3
1944	35	42	38	3	9	0	5	1	2	.237	.256	.237	.493	33.0	40.4	.235	1.2
1945	30	34	32	4	4	1	2	1	4	.125	.152	.188	.339	-15.5	-4.7	.161	1.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1935	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	12	4	2	1	5.3	20.25	3.563	3.38	7.03	151.2	23.0	-0.8
1937	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	10	7	6	2	0	8.0	7.88	2.000	2.25	4.70	121.1	49.3	-0.3
1938	6	1	0	1	0	0	0	28	15	12	7	2	18.0	7.50	2.222	3.50	5.40	143.0	50.4	-0.6
1939	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	10	4	6	3	0	6.3	5.68	2.526	4.26	4.70	119.6	69.2	-0.1
1940	13	3	1	1	1	1	0	27	14	16	17	2	32.3	3.90	1.330	4.73	4.08	105.0	99.6	0.3
1944	35	9	7	4	2	2	0	123	51	51	54	8	126.3	3.63	1.377	3.85	3.73	104.9	98.0	1.2
1945	30	7	7	3	2	3	1	91	37	33	35	4	95.3	3.49	1.301	3.30	3.61	98.0	105.6	1.1

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

RBI

.1685

OBP

.1957

SLG

.1910

OPS

.3867

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

292

SO (P)

120

BB allowed

128

ERA

4.320

WHIP

1.4811

K/9

3.70

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	3B	RBI	BB	TB
1945-04-22	CHC @ PIT Gameday	2	1	1	1	1	0	3
1944-08-15	PHI @ CHC Gameday	2	0	2	0	1	0	2
1940-05-13	SF @ ATL Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	1	1
1944-06-16	CIN @ CHC Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	0	1
1944-07-23	CHC @ SF Gameday	1	0	1	0	1	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1944-09-15	STL @ CHC Gameday	8.0	4	3	0	3	7	0
1944-05-14	LAD @ CHC Gameday	7.2	10	7	1	4	6	0
1940-04-24	SF @ PHI Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	3	5	0
1945-09-03	CIN @ CHC Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	0	5	0
1944-05-28	CHC @ ATL Gameday	7.0	6	5	5	0	5	1

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.