Jeff Heath

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 200 lb

BornApril 1, 1915 · Fort William, ON, CAN

MLB debutSeptember 13, 1936

Final gameSeptember 8, 1949

Seasons14 (1936–1949)

Cleveland Indians 1936–1945; St. Louis Browns 1946; Washington Senators 1946; St. Louis Browns 1947; Boston Braves 1948–1949

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified batters

141

53.4

582

52.4

491

41.7

72.8

123

29.1

36.9

92.2

RBI

79.6

88.3

16.5

35.9

.251

13.6

OBP

.366

59.2

SLG

.485

84.5

OPS

.850

82.5

wRC+

131.7

79.6

OPS+

130.9

79.6

wOBA

.394

78.6

sWAR

3.4

74.8

of 104 qualified 1947 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

138.1

95.3

OPS+

140.7

95.8

sWAR

38.4

97.7

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1936	12	44	41	6	14	3	3	1	8	3	4	1	0	.341	.386	.634	1.021	140.9	147.9	.446	0.3
1937	20	61	61	8	14	1	4	0	8	0	9	0	1	.230	.230	.377	.607	39.6	50.3	.265	-0.3
1938	126	538	502	104	172	31	18	21	112	33	55	3	1	.343	.383	.602	.985	140.9	146.8	.433	4.0
1939	121	472	431	64	126	31	7	14	69	41	64	8	4	.292	.354	.494	.848	116.5	120.4	.380	2.1
1940	100	396	356	55	78	16	3	14	50	40	62	5	3	.219	.298	.399	.697	81.6	83.7	.315	-0.1
1941	151	643	585	89	199	32	20	24	123	50	69	18	12	.340	.396	.586	.982	160.2	164.3	.438	6.2
1942	147	634	568	82	158	37	13	10	76	62	66	9	9	.278	.350	.442	.792	126.1	128.4	.371	3.3
1943	118	488	424	58	116	22	6	18	79	63	58	5	8	.274	.369	.481	.850	154.1	154.4	.399	4.2
1944	60	170	151	20	50	5	2	5	33	18	12	0	1	.331	.402	.490	.892	160.5	158.7	.417	1.6
1945	102	429	370	60	113	16	7	15	61	56	39	3	1	.305	.398	.508	.906	168.9	167.2	.425	4.4
1946	134	558	482	69	134	32	7	16	84	73	73	0	6	.278	.374	.473	.847	136.9	134.4	.392	3.6
1947	141	582	491	81	123	20	7	27	85	88	87	2	1	.251	.366	.485	.850	131.7	130.9	.394	3.4
1948	115	419	364	64	116	26	5	20	76	51	46	2	0	.319	.404	.582	.986	166.4	167.5	.439	4.3
1949	36	126	111	17	34	7	0	9	23	15	26	0	0	.306	.389	.613	1.002	168.4	172.5	.439	1.3

Career totals

1,383

5,560

4,937

777

1,447

279

102

153rd-most career 3B

194

411th-most career HR

RBI

887

416th-most career RBI

593

670

.2931

345th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3700

284th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5088

97th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8788

111th-highest career OPS

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
1941-08-27	ATH @ CLE Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	2	7	0	11
1939-07-09	CLE @ BAL Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	2	3	0	10
1941-06-19	CLE @ ATH Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	1	2	0	9
1942-05-02	CLE @ MIN Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	1	5	0	9
1942-06-08	CLE @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	4	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1936-04-14	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-15	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-17	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-18	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-19	CLE @ BAL 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

2× 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.