Mike Hershberger

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornOctober 9, 1939 · Massillon, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 5, 1961

Final gameSeptember 17, 1971

Seasons11 (1961–1971)

Chicago White Sox 1961–1964; Kansas City Athletics 1965–1967; Oakland Athletics 1968–1969; Milwaukee Brewers 1970; Chicago White Sox 1971

Percentile snapshot

1967 season — qualified batters

142

30.6

537

14.3

480

19.4

22.4

122

19.4

67.3

7.1

3.1

RBI

28.6

31.6

96.9

69.4

59.2

.254

35.7

OBP

.314

27.6

SLG

.317

11.2

OPS

.631

13.3

wRC+

89.8

16.3

OPS+

89.1

15.3

wOBA

.296

14.3

sWAR

0.4

8.2

of 99 qualified 1967 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

86.0

17.4

OPS+

85.5

16.4

sWAR

2.5

72.1

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
1961	15	58	55	9	17	3	0	0	5	2	2	1	1	.309	.333	.364	.697	88.6	89.0	.319	0.1
1962	148	474	427	54	112	14	2	4	46	37	36	10	6	.262	.324	.333	.657	81.2	79.4	.305	-0.1
1963	135	526	476	64	133	26	2	3	45	39	39	9	3	.279	.338	.361	.699	102.8	100.2	.321	1.7
1964	141	510	452	55	104	15	3	2	31	48	47	8	6	.230	.308	.290	.598	74.5	71.9	.282	-0.2
1965	150	541	494	43	114	15	5	5	48	37	42	7	3	.231	.289	.312	.601	68.0	70.8	.277	-1.0
1966	146	599	538	55	136	27	7	2	57	47	37	13	5	.253	.313	.340	.653	89.8	89.5	.299	0.5
1967	142	537	480	55	122	25	1	1	49	38	40	10	3	.254	.314	.317	.631	89.8	89.1	.296	0.4
1968	99	274	246	23	67	9	2	5	32	21	22	8	3	.272	.327	.386	.713	117.4	119.1	.326	0.9
1969	51	142	129	11	26	2	0	1	10	10	15	1	2	.202	.259	.240	.499	42.9	44.0	.243	-0.7
1970	49	108	98	7	23	5	0	1	6	10	8	1	2	.235	.306	.316	.622	73.5	71.8	.295	-0.2
1971	74	214	177	22	46	9	0	2	15	30	23	6	2	.260	.377	.345	.722	111.1	104.1	.346	1.1

Career totals

1,150

3,983

3,572

398

900

150

RBI

344

319

311

.2520

OBP

.3165

SLG

.3281

OPS

.6446

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
1962-04-13	CWS @ ATH Gameday	6	1	5	1	0	0	4	6
1965-06-20	ATH @ DET Gameday	5	0	5	1	0	0	2	6
1966-07-27	ATH @ BOS Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	1	2	6
1968-09-04	DET @ ATH Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	1	6
1968-06-06	ATH @ TEX Gameday	3	1	3	1	1	0	0	6

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.