MLB / Players

John Herrnstein

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 3 in · 215 lb
BornMarch 31, 1938 · Hampton, VA, USA
MLB debutSeptember 15, 1962
Final gameJuly 7, 1966
Seasons5 (1962–1966)

Philadelphia Phillies 1962–1965; Atlanta Braves 1966; Chicago Cubs 1966; Philadelphia Phillies 1966

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
-1.7
2.2

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19626650100011300.200.333.200.53362.449.4.2770.0
19631513121200111500.167.231.417.64782.284.3.2890.0
19641253383033871124625226712.234.288.360.64883.883.2.296-0.5
1965639185817201521800.200.227.259.48629.438.3.219-0.7
196630484558000232200.178.229.178.40710.814.5.198-0.5

Career totals

G
239
PA
496
AB
450
R
52
H
99
2B
14
3B
4
HR
8
RBI
34
BB
29
SO
115
SB
1
BA
.2200
OBP
.2701
SLG
.3222
OPS
.5923

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1964-04-24CHC @ PHI Gameday423210007
1964-06-23CHC @ PHI Gameday434200116
1964-08-01LAD @ PHI Gameday513001206
1965-07-17PHI @ CIN Gameday623001106
1964-04-19PHI @ CHC Gameday522001105

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1966-04-28PIT @ CHC Gameday0.0000000
1966-05-22CHC @ ATL Gameday0.0000000
1966-05-22CHC @ ATL Gameday0.0000000
1966-06-10ATL @ PIT Gameday0.0000000
1966-06-12ATL @ PIT Gameday0.0000000

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.