Jim Hegan

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornAugust 3, 1920 · Lynn, MA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1941

Final gameJuly 4, 1960

Seasons17 (1941–1960)

Cleveland Indians 1941–1942; Cleveland Indians 1946–1957; Detroit Tigers 1958; Philadelphia Phillies 1958–1959; San Francisco Giants 1959; Chicago Cubs 1960

Percentile snapshot

1949 season — qualified batters

152

77.3

529

21.3

468

105

1.3

49.3

RBI

25.3

22.7

10.7

49.3

.224

OBP

.298

2.7

SLG

.338

5.3

OPS

.635

2.7

wRC+

67.3

5.3

OPS+

71.7

wOBA

.305

5.3

sWAR

0.9

17.3

of 76 qualified 1949 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

71.4

OPS+

75.5

5.8

sWAR

12.7

89.4

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
1941	16	53	47	4	15	2	0	1	5	4	7	0	0	.319	.373	.426	.798	116.1	116.7	.369	0.4
1942	68	184	170	10	33	5	0	0	11	11	31	1	3	.194	.243	.224	.467	31.1	35.5	.229	-0.4
1946	88	292	271	29	64	11	5	0	17	17	44	1	4	.236	.284	.314	.597	65.8	71.5	.282	0.6
1947	135	426	378	38	94	14	5	4	42	41	49	3	1	.249	.324	.344	.668	90.4	91.5	.320	2.1
1948	144	524	472	60	117	21	6	14	61	48	74	6	3	.248	.317	.407	.724	92.0	96.4	.338	2.3
1949	152	529	468	54	105	19	5	8	55	49	89	1	0	.224	.298	.338	.635	67.3	71.7	.305	0.9
1950	131	469	415	53	91	16	5	14	58	42	52	1	0	.219	.291	.383	.674	71.4	76.2	.311	0.9
1951	133	457	416	60	99	17	5	6	43	38	72	0	3	.238	.302	.346	.648	78.2	80.9	.305	1.4
1952	112	364	333	39	75	17	2	4	41	29	47	0	2	.225	.287	.324	.612	72.1	76.3	.290	0.9
1953	112	329	299	37	65	10	1	9	37	25	41	1	2	.217	.280	.348	.628	68.1	72.7	.291	0.7
1954	139	468	423	56	99	12	7	11	40	34	48	0	1	.234	.289	.374	.662	76.2	82.1	.305	1.4
1955	116	352	304	30	67	5	2	9	40	34	33	0	1	.220	.293	.339	.632	63.0	69.9	.290	0.5
1956	122	368	315	42	70	15	2	6	34	49	54	1	1	.222	.327	.340	.667	75.0	76.3	.312	1.0
1957	58	167	148	14	32	7	0	4	15	16	23	0	1	.216	.291	.345	.636	72.4	74.6	.294	0.5
1958	70	203	189	19	38	12	0	1	13	14	48	0	0	.201	.256	.280	.537	37.3	43.5	.248	-0.3
1959	46	88	81	1	14	2	0	0	8	4	20	0	2	.173	.207	.198	.404	-2.9	8.9	.183	-0.4
1960	24	45	43	4	9	2	1	1	5	1	10	0	0	.209	.244	.372	.617	62.8	66.3	.275	0.1

Career totals

1,666

5,318

4,772

550

1,087

187

RBI

525

456

742

.2278

OBP

.2949

SLG

.3441

OPS

.6390

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	TB
1950-08-01	MIN @ CLE Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	1	4	9
1950-06-22	NYY @ CLE Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	2	2	9
1954-05-16	ATH @ CLE Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	4	8
1948-08-05	MIN @ CLE Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	2	8
1951-04-18	CLE @ DET Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	2	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1941-04-15	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-16	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-17	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-18	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-19	CLE @ DET 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

5× 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.