MLB / Players

Roy Henshaw

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 155 lb

BornJuly 29, 1911 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1933

Final gameSeptember 10, 1944

Seasons8 (1933–1944)

Chicago Cubs 1933; Chicago Cubs 1935–1936; Brooklyn Dodgers 1937; St. Louis Cardinals 1938; Detroit Tigers 1942–1944

Percentile snapshot

1937 season — qualified pitchers

87.5

32.3

19.8

29.2

72.9

13.5

SHO

176

58.3

32.3

38.5

29.2

156.3

32.3

ERA

5.07

22.9

WHIP

1.567

19.8

K/9

5.64

86.5

FIP

4.26

FIP-

106.8

ERA+

78.8

6.3

sWAR

-0.5

5.2

of 97 qualified 1937 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.2

77.4

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
1933	21	10	10	1	2	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	2.3	15.7	.185	-0.1
1935	31	57	51	5	13	1	2	1	11	.255	.269	.275	.544	43.9	47.9	.250	2.6
1936	39	47	44	3	6	1	1	1	7	.136	.156	.159	.315	-26.1	-15.1	.149	1.1
1937	43	52	48	2	8	1	2	0	10	.167	.167	.188	.354	-19.2	-4.9	.162	-0.5
1938	27	43	41	1	9	0	2	1	6	.220	.238	.220	.458	13.3	23.8	.216	1.2
1942	23	13	12	0	1	0	0	1	2	.083	.154	.083	.237	-46.1	-34.2	.131	0.4
1943	26	18	18	0	2	0	0	0	2	.111	.111	.111	.222	-66.1	-36.5	.105	0.3
1944	7	5	5	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-135.4	-100.0	.000	-0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1933	21	0	2	1	0	0	0	32	18	20	16	0	38.7	4.19	1.345	3.72	3.45	105.5	78.0	-0.1
1935	31	18	13	5	1	7	3	135	52	68	53	6	142.7	3.28	1.423	3.34	4.34	110.1	120.2	2.6
1936	39	14	6	5	1	6	2	152	57	56	69	8	129.3	3.97	1.608	4.80	4.20	104.5	101.2	1.1
1937	42	16	5	12	2	5	0	176	88	69	98	14	156.3	5.07	1.567	5.64	4.26	106.8	78.8	-0.5
1938	27	15	5	11	0	4	0	132	58	48	34	7	130.0	4.02	1.385	2.35	4.04	102.1	98.6	1.2
1942	23	2	2	4	1	0	0	63	28	27	24	3	61.7	4.09	1.459	3.50	3.77	97.2	94.8	0.4
1943	26	3	0	2	2	0	0	75	30	33	33	2	71.3	3.79	1.514	4.16	3.30	95.3	91.5	0.3
1944	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	17	12	6	10	0	12.3	8.76	1.865	7.30	2.39	67.2	40.5	-0.7

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

217

245

229

RBI

.1790

OBP

.1931

SLG

.1921

OPS

.3852

Pitching

G (P)

216

SHO

742

SO (P)

337

BB allowed

327

ERA

4.159

WHIP

1.4939

K/9

4.09

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
1935-05-30	CHC @ PIT Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	0	3
1938-06-02	PHI @ STL Gameday	3	1	2	0	2	1	2
1935-09-01	CHC @ PIT Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	0	2
1937-08-01	LAD @ STL Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	0	2
1936-05-26	CIN @ CHC Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1937-06-07	CIN @ LAD Gameday	10.0	7	4	4	7	10	1
1937-09-15	LAD @ CIN Gameday	9.0	13	5	4	2	10	0
1937-04-23	LAD @ PHI Gameday	7.1	5	3	3	3	9	0
1936-05-26	CIN @ CHC Gameday	9.0	10	4	4	5	7	1
1937-08-15	LAD @ ATL Gameday	6.2	7	4	3	4	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.