MLB / Players

Tommy Henrich

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornFebruary 20, 1913 · Massillon, OH, USA

MLB debutMay 11, 1937

Final gameOctober 1, 1950

Seasons11 (1937–1950)

New York Yankees 1937–1942; New York Yankees 1946–1950

Percentile snapshot

1949 season — qualified batters

115

1.3

502

9.3

411

69.3

118

10.7

17.3

22.7

85.3

RBI

73.3

66.7

21.3

34.7

.287

57.3

OBP

.416

86.7

SLG

.526

93.3

OPS

.942

94.7

wRC+

150.1

94.7

OPS+

150.7

94.7

wOBA

.438

sWAR

4.1

73.3

of 76 qualified 1949 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

133.3

92.9

OPS+

134.1

93.2

sWAR

33.7

97.1

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
1937	67	242	206	39	66	14	5	8	42	35	17	4	0	.320	.419	.553	.972	142.6	143.2	.435	1.8
1938	131	575	471	109	127	24	7	22	91	92	32	6	2	.270	.391	.490	.882	122.8	123.6	.402	2.9
1939	99	406	347	64	96	18	4	9	57	51	23	7	0	.277	.371	.429	.800	109.7	109.0	.370	1.6
1940	90	346	293	57	90	28	5	10	53	48	30	1	2	.307	.408	.539	.947	144.5	144.5	.421	2.8
1941	144	632	538	106	149	27	5	31	85	81	40	3	1	.277	.377	.519	.895	136.8	139.1	.404	4.3
1942	127	555	483	77	129	30	5	13	67	58	42	4	4	.267	.352	.431	.782	123.0	123.9	.368	2.7
1946	150	671	565	92	142	25	4	19	83	87	63	5	2	.251	.358	.411	.769	117.5	114.5	.362	2.6
1947	142	629	550	109	158	35	13	16	98	71	54	3	2	.287	.372	.485	.857	139.9	140.3	.397	4.4
1948	146	673	588	138	181	42	14	25	100	76	42	2	3	.308	.391	.554	.945	149.1	153.1	.431	5.4
1949	115	502	411	90	118	20	3	24	85	86	34	2	2	.287	.416	.526	.942	150.1	150.7	.438	4.1
1950	73	178	151	20	41	6	8	6	34	27	6	0	1	.272	.382	.536	.918	134.3	138.2	.414	1.1

Career totals

1,284

5,409

4,603

901

479th-most career R

1,297

269

354th-most career 3B

183

459th-most career HR

RBI

795

712

368th-most career BB

383

.2818

OBP

.3819

175th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4912

155th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8731

122nd-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
1941-08-01	BAL @ NYY Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	3	0	10
1938-08-28	BAL @ NYY Gameday	3	3	3	1	2	3	1	10
1940-05-11	BOS @ NYY Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	3	1	10
1938-08-27	CLE @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	4	0	9
1946-09-07	MIN @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1937-04-20	MIN @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-24	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-25	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-26	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-28	NYY @ MIN 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.

Honors

5× 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.