Ray Herbert

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornDecember 15, 1929 · Detroit, MI, USA

MLB debutAugust 27, 1950

Final gameSeptember 17, 1966

Seasons14 (1950–1966)

Detroit Tigers 1950–1951; Detroit Tigers 1953–1954; Kansas City Athletics 1955; Kansas City Athletics 1958–1960; Chicago White Sox 1961; Kansas City Athletics 1961; Chicago White Sox 1962–1964; Philadelphia Phillies 1965–1966

Percentile snapshot

1963 season — qualified pitchers

21.1

60.6

45.1

53.5

83.1

SHO

97.2

230

19.7

36.6

97.2

105

16.9

84.5

224.7

54.9

ERA

3.24

47.9

WHIP

1.180

53.5

K/9

4.21

9.9

FIP

2.71

80.3

FIP-

77.4

88.7

ERA+

108.1

56.3

sWAR

3.6

of 72 qualified 1963 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

95.6

20.5

sWAR

16.8

92.1

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1950	8	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.286	.286	.286	.571	36.8	45.6	.266	0.5
1951	5	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.200	.000	.200	-28.9	-42.7	.152	0.5
1953	43	21	19	0	3	0	0	0	0	2	7	.158	.238	.158	.396	3.7	8.1	.204	-0.4
1954	42	19	17	5	3	0	1	1	3	2	4	.176	.263	.471	.734	91.7	98.9	.329	-1.2
1955	24	24	21	1	4	1	0	0	2	1	7	.190	.217	.238	.455	8.1	20.7	.213	-1.3
1958	42	59	52	4	10	3	0	0	2	5	12	.192	.263	.250	.513	38.3	40.5	.246	2.7
1959	37	63	57	5	12	2	0	1	5	3	9	.211	.250	.298	.548	43.7	48.1	.253	0.2
1960	37	92	76	5	13	3	0	0	7	7	16	.171	.241	.211	.451	18.6	22.1	.221	4.6
1961	34	89	81	8	15	2	0	2	7	4	13	.185	.233	.284	.517	33.0	39.1	.238	1.1
1962	35	92	82	6	16	5	0	2	9	5	16	.195	.247	.329	.576	51.1	55.4	.261	4.5
1963	33	83	63	7	14	4	0	1	10	9	18	.222	.315	.333	.648	89.3	85.7	.302	3.6
1964	20	40	36	2	5	0	0	0	3	1	10	.139	.158	.139	.297	-28.1	-14.4	.139	1.0
1965	25	46	41	3	11	1	0	0	3	1	13	.268	.286	.293	.578	63.4	65.4	.267	1.0
1966	23	14	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	7	.077	.143	.077	.220	-43.5	-36.3	.118	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1950	8	3	1	2	1	1	0	20	9	12	5	1	22.3	3.63	1.433	2.01	4.46	96.0	128.0	0.5
1951	5	0	4	0	0	0	0	8	2	9	9	0	12.7	1.42	1.342	6.39	3.29	79.5	290.9	0.5
1953	43	3	4	6	6	0	0	109	51	46	37	5	87.7	5.24	1.768	3.80	4.04	100.0	77.1	-0.4
1954	42	4	3	6	0	0	0	114	55	50	44	6	84.3	5.87	1.945	4.70	4.11	110.8	63.2	-1.2
1955	23	11	1	8	0	2	0	99	61	40	30	10	87.7	6.26	1.586	3.08	4.63	112.7	65.6	-1.3
1958	42	16	8	8	3	5	0	161	68	55	108	20	175.0	3.50	1.234	5.55	3.71	95.6	110.9	2.7
1959	37	26	11	11	1	10	2	196	99	62	99	24	183.7	4.85	1.405	4.85	4.11	103.4	82.0	0.2
1960	37	33	14	15	1	14	0	256	92	72	122	17	252.7	3.28	1.298	4.35	3.25	81.8	121.3	4.6
1961	34	32	12	12	0	5	0	245	112	66	84	25	221.3	4.55	1.405	3.42	4.13	102.8	88.2	1.1
1962	35	35	20	9	0	12	2	228	86	74	115	13	236.7	3.27	1.276	4.37	3.21	82.2	119.3	4.5
1963	33	33	13	10	0	14	7	230	81	35	105	12	224.7	3.24	1.180	4.21	2.71	77.4	108.1	3.6
1964	20	19	6	7	0	1	1	117	43	17	40	14	111.7	3.47	1.200	3.22	3.88	112.0	100.1	1.0
1965	25	19	5	8	1	4	1	162	56	19	51	13	130.7	3.86	1.385	3.51	3.61	103.8	90.1	1.0
1966	23	2	2	5	2	0	0	55	24	14	15	7	50.3	4.29	1.371	2.68	4.78	133.2	83.6	0.0

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

408

654

569

109

RBI

133

.1916

OBP

.2480

SLG

.2689

OPS

.5169

Pitching

G (P)

407

236

104

107

474th-most career L

SHO

478th-most career SHO

1,881

SO (P)

864

BB allowed

571

ERA

4.014

WHIP

1.3666

K/9

4.13

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	HR	RBI	TB
1963-05-28	CLE @ CWS Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	2	5
1961-09-26	CWS @ BOS Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	1	5
1960-08-21	CWS @ ATH Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	2	4
1954-06-11	DET @ ATH Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	4
1959-07-18	ATH @ MIN Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	2	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1958-08-24	ATH @ BOS Gameday	10.1	7	3	3	4	10	0
1959-07-09	DET @ ATH Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	2	10	0
1963-09-24	CWS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	2	9	0
1960-06-22	BOS @ ATH Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	1	8	0
1960-08-07	NYY @ ATH Gameday	9.0	6	3	3	2	8	1

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.