MLB / Players

Larry Herndon

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 190 lb

BornNovember 3, 1953 · Sunflower, MS, USA

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1974

Final gameOctober 2, 1988

Seasons14 (1974–1988)

St. Louis Cardinals 1974; San Francisco Giants 1976–1981; Detroit Tigers 1982–1988

Percentile snapshot

1983 season — qualified batters

153

68.5

658

78.5

603

85.4

81.5

182

90.8

65.4

94.6

73.8

RBI

84.6

36.9

23.1

52.3

64.6

.302

82.3

OBP

.351

65.4

SLG

.478

81.5

OPS

.829

76.2

wRC+

128.8

75.4

OPS+

129.9

79.2

wOBA

.365

70.8

sWAR

3.7

74.6

of 131 qualified 1983 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

103.3

48.1

OPS+

103.3

49.1

sWAR

14.6

90.7

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
1974	12	1	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	516.0	466.7	.945	0.1
1976	115	365	337	42	97	11	3	2	23	23	45	12	10	.288	.337	.356	.693	98.4	95.1	.330	1.4
1977	49	117	109	13	26	4	3	1	5	5	20	4	2	.239	.278	.358	.636	66.4	70.4	.286	0.0
1978	151	521	471	52	122	15	9	1	32	35	71	13	8	.259	.311	.335	.646	85.6	84.5	.304	1.1
1979	132	389	354	35	91	14	5	7	36	29	70	8	6	.257	.313	.384	.698	93.5	95.6	.317	0.9
1980	139	521	493	54	127	17	11	8	49	19	91	8	8	.258	.284	.385	.670	86.0	88.4	.305	0.5
1981	96	391	364	48	105	15	8	5	41	20	55	15	6	.288	.325	.415	.740	111.7	112.0	.341	1.3
1982	157	659	614	92	179	21	13	23	88	38	92	12	9	.292	.332	.480	.812	121.2	121.9	.357	3.1
1983	153	658	603	88	182	28	9	20	92	46	95	9	3	.302	.351	.478	.829	128.8	129.9	.365	3.7
1984	125	445	407	52	114	18	5	7	43	32	63	6	2	.280	.333	.400	.734	105.8	104.6	.332	1.2
1985	137	478	442	45	108	12	7	12	37	33	79	2	1	.244	.298	.385	.682	87.2	87.4	.306	0.2
1986	106	316	283	33	70	13	1	8	37	27	40	2	1	.247	.310	.385	.695	87.9	89.8	.310	0.0
1987	89	254	225	32	73	13	2	9	47	23	35	1	0	.324	.378	.520	.898	139.2	140.6	.387	1.6
1988	76	201	174	16	39	5	0	4	20	23	37	0	1	.224	.313	.322	.635	85.7	81.8	.299	-0.4

Career totals

1,537

5,316

4,877

605

1,334

186

319th-most career 3B

107

RBI

550

353

793

.2735

OBP

.3223

SLG

.4087

OPS

.7310

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
1982-05-18	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	7	12
1983-07-11	LAA @ DET Gameday	6	4	5	2	0	1	3	10
1987-08-18	MIN @ DET Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	2	5	10
1982-09-23	DET @ BAL Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	4	10
1982-05-20	ATH @ DET Gameday	5	2	5	0	2	0	1	9

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.