MLB / Players

Leniel Hooker

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 169 lb

BornJune 28, 1916 · Sanford, NC, USA

Seasons9 (1940–1948)

Newark Eagles 1940–1943; Philadelphia Stars 1943; Newark Eagles 1944–1948

Percentile snapshot

1948 season — qualified pitchers

8.3

11.1

83.3

30.6

SHO

90.3

84.7

98.6

6.9

90.3

88.3

11.1

ERA

3.26

70.8

WHIP

1.087

94.4

K/9

4.18

54.2

FIP

3.17

91.7

FIP-

89.2

69.4

ERA+

108.8

40.3

sWAR

1.0

22.2

of 73 qualified 1948 pitchers (min 57 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

7.0

82.9

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	2B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1940	19	29	28	2	3	0	1	1	1	.107	.138	.107	.245	-21.7	-35.6	.123	0.1
1941	16	32	32	1	2	0	1	0	0	.063	.063	.063	.125	-54.0	-64.9	.058	-0.3
1942	18	44	44	2	4	0	0	0	0	.091	.091	.091	.182	-38.1	-48.1	.086	0.8
1943	17	37	32	5	6	1	2	3	0	.188	.257	.219	.476	40.3	27.2	.241	1.1
1944	12	36	32	0	2	0	1	3	0	.063	.143	.063	.205	-25.2	-43.7	.120	1.0
1945	8	25	24	0	2	0	1	1	0	.083	.120	.083	.203	-32.6	-42.5	.106	1.0
1946	14	35	33	1	4	0	1	1	0	.121	.147	.121	.268	-14.7	-24.8	.135	1.9
1947	14	29	27	1	1	1	0	2	0	.037	.103	.074	.178	-40.4	-51.0	.099	0.5
1948	14	33	31	2	4	1	1	0	1	.129	.129	.161	.290	-19.3	-16.3	.135	1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1940	19	12	4	5	2	2	0	89	53	32	47	3	81.7	5.84	1.482	5.18	4.57	87.5	89.4	0.1
1941	16	10	2	8	1	5	0	111	50	24	33	5	84.7	5.31	1.594	3.51	4.55	103.0	83.0	-0.3
1942	17	10	7	1	0	7	0	85	40	42	56	5	96.0	3.75	1.323	5.25	4.29	109.4	104.6	0.8
1943	17	7	7	4	0	3	1	92	41	33	43	4	84.3	4.38	1.482	4.59	4.90	101.8	109.9	1.1
1944	12	12	6	6	0	8	0	89	41	34	29	4	92.3	4.00	1.332	2.83	4.94	114.5	108.0	1.0
1945	8	7	2	6	0	7	0	69	21	10	29	0	60.0	3.15	1.317	4.35	3.31	80.2	130.9	1.0
1946	14	10	5	5	2	7	1	79	29	21	36	0	85.7	3.05	1.167	3.78	3.62	82.0	144.9	1.9
1947	14	10	2	6	2	5	0	95	38	25	33	6	79.7	4.29	1.506	3.73	4.74	114.4	96.4	0.5
1948	14	11	6	5	0	8	0	80	32	16	41	2	88.3	3.26	1.087	4.18	3.17	89.2	108.8	1.0

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

132

300

283

RBI

.0989

OBP

.1327

SLG

.1095

OPS

.2422

Pitching

G (P)

131

SHO

753

SO (P)

347

BB allowed

237

ERA

4.125

WHIP

1.3632

K/9

4.15

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	RBI	BB	TB
1948-09-12	NE @ BEG Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	3
1943-07-15	NE @ PHS Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	0	2
1943-08-08	NE @ HOM Gameday	1	1	1	1	0	0	2
1947-08-29	HOM @ NE Gameday	2	1	1	1	0	1	2
1940-06-09	HOM @ NE Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1946-07-12	NYC @ NE Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	2	7	0
1948-07-20	PHS @ NE Gameday	9.0	5	4	4	0	7	0
1940-07-04	NE @ PHS Gameday	8.0	6	1	1	2	7	0
1941-08-11	NE @ HOM Gameday	8.0	11	7	7	2	7	1
1942-07-30	NE @ CLB Gameday	5.1	4	4	4	5	7	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

1× 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.