MLB / Players

Ron Herbel

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornJanuary 16, 1938 · Denver, CO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1963

Final gameSeptember 19, 1971

Seasons9 (1963–1971)

San Francisco Giants 1963–1969; New York Mets 1970; San Diego Padres 1970; Atlanta Braves 1971

Percentile snapshot

1965 season — qualified pitchers

95.8

4.2

37.5

66.7

58.3

1.4

SHO

172

76.4

62.5

83.3

106

22.2

70.8

170.7

8.3

ERA

3.85

22.2

WHIP

1.283

30.6

K/9

5.59

54.2

FIP

3.49

43.1

FIP-

97.7

44.4

ERA+

92.8

sWAR

0.6

12.5

of 73 qualified 1965 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.3

77.7

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1963	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1964	41	54	47	2	0	0	0	2	30	0	.000	.041	.000	.041	-104.4	-87.3	.030	2.1
1965	47	52	49	2	1	0	2	1	31	0	.020	.040	.020	.060	-103.5	-82.4	.033	0.6
1966	32	39	38	0	1	0	1	1	24	0	.026	.051	.026	.078	-98.0	-77.7	.042	0.1
1967	42	33	28	0	3	2	0	2	14	1	.107	.167	.179	.345	-5.2	0.2	.170	1.6
1968	28	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-136.8	-100.0	.000	0.1
1969	39	19	17	2	0	0	0	1	7	0	.000	.056	.000	.056	-97.6	-83.0	.042	0.2
1970	76	14	13	0	0	0	0	1	8	0	.000	.071	.000	.071	-84.4	-78.7	.054	0.2
1971	25	11	11	0	1	0	0	0	8	0	.091	.091	.091	.182	-78.2	-49.6	.085	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1963	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	1.3	6.75	1.500	6.75	3.25	100.3	48.0	0.0
1964	40	22	9	9	1	7	2	162	55	61	98	7	161.0	3.07	1.385	5.48	3.29	92.4	115.8	2.1
1965	47	21	12	9	1	1	0	172	73	47	106	16	170.7	3.85	1.283	5.59	3.49	97.7	92.8	0.6
1966	32	18	4	5	1	0	0	149	60	39	55	15	129.7	4.16	1.450	3.82	4.28	117.3	87.5	0.1
1967	42	11	4	5	1	1	1	125	43	35	52	10	125.7	3.08	1.273	3.72	3.75	113.3	107.4	1.6
1968	28	2	0	0	0	0	0	55	16	15	18	5	42.7	3.38	1.641	3.80	4.35	146.8	87.8	0.1
1969	39	4	4	1	1	2	0	92	39	23	34	7	87.3	4.02	1.317	3.50	3.74	105.8	88.1	0.2
1970	76	1	9	7	10	0	0	128	63	41	61	15	124.0	4.57	1.363	4.43	4.53	114.4	86.6	0.2
1971	25	0	0	1	1	0	0	61	30	23	22	6	51.7	5.23	1.626	3.83	4.77	129.8	70.3	-0.6

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

332

225

206

RBI

125

.0291

OBP

.0654

SLG

.0388

OPS

.1042

Pitching

G (P)

331

SHO

894

SO (P)

447

BB allowed

285

ERA

3.826

WHIP

1.3758

K/9

4.50

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
1967-04-16	SF @ CIN Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	1	2
1967-06-13	SF @ HOU Gameday	1	0	1	1	0	0	2
1965-05-21	SF @ HOU Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	0	1
1966-06-09	SF @ HOU Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	0	1
1967-07-21	SF @ CHC Gameday	1	0	1	0	0	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1964-06-24	SF @ CIN Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	3	14	0
1964-05-22	PIT @ SF Gameday	8.1	8	3	3	3	11	0
1964-05-17	NYM @ SF Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	0	8	0
1965-05-11	CHC @ SF Gameday	8.2	6	0	0	1	8	0
1967-09-02	SF @ CIN Gameday	8.1	5	3	3	1	8	2

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.