Solly Hemus

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 165 lb

BornApril 17, 1923 · Phoenix, AZ, USA

MLB debutApril 27, 1949

Final gameJune 14, 1959

Seasons11 (1949–1959)

St. Louis Cardinals 1949–1955; Philadelphia Phillies 1956; St. Louis Cardinals 1956; Philadelphia Phillies 1957–1958; St. Louis Cardinals 1959

Percentile snapshot

1953 season — qualified batters

154

77.4

690

91.7

585

67.9

110

91.7

163

67.9

79.8

52.4

RBI

33.3

90.5

60.7

21.4

78.6

.279

40.5

OBP

.382

SLG

.443

OPS

.825

65.5

wRC+

117.1

64.3

OPS+

114.0

60.7

wOBA

.372

66.7

sWAR

4.5

83.3

of 85 qualified 1953 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

120.2

79.2

OPS+

114.7

71.4

sWAR

21.8

94.3

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
1949	20	40	33	8	11	1	0	0	2	7	3	0	0	.333	.450	.364	.814	130.1	118.5	.392	0.3
1950	11	17	15	1	2	1	0	0	0	2	4	0	0	.133	.235	.200	.435	10.9	14.2	.216	-0.1
1951	120	507	420	68	118	18	9	2	32	75	31	7	7	.281	.395	.381	.776	116.4	109.8	.365	3.2
1952	151	690	570	105	153	28	8	15	52	96	55	1	5	.268	.392	.425	.817	132.7	126.8	.381	5.9
1953	154	690	585	110	163	32	11	14	61	86	40	2	1	.279	.382	.443	.825	117.1	114.0	.372	4.5
1954	124	276	214	43	65	15	3	2	27	55	27	5	1	.304	.453	.430	.883	143.4	131.0	.411	2.8
1955	96	240	206	36	50	10	2	5	21	27	22	1	1	.243	.335	.383	.718	93.9	89.6	.329	0.7
1956	86	233	192	25	55	10	4	5	26	29	22	1	1	.286	.398	.458	.857	138.3	131.8	.384	2.0
1957	70	130	108	8	20	6	1	0	5	20	8	1	1	.185	.323	.259	.582	61.1	61.2	.273	-0.2
1958	105	401	334	53	95	14	3	8	36	51	34	3	1	.284	.390	.416	.806	119.5	115.0	.365	2.4
1959	24	26	17	2	4	2	0	0	1	8	2	0	0	.235	.500	.353	.853	154.8	127.3	.425	0.3

Career totals

961

3,250

2,694

459

736

137

RBI

263

456

248

.2732

OBP

.3896

118th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4113

OPS

.8009

494th-highest career OPS

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	BB	TB
1952-09-16	STL @ ATL Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	3	1	9
1953-09-25	STL @ CHC Gameday	6	2	3	2	1	2	0	8
1952-06-15	STL @ SF Gameday	5	3	2	0	2	3	1	8
1952-08-16	CIN @ STL Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	2	0	8
1953-05-12	PHI @ STL Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1949-04-19	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-21	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-22	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-23	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-24	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.