MLB / Players

Val Heim

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb
BornNovember 4, 1920 · Plymouth, WI, USA
MLB debutAugust 31, 1942
Final gameSeptember 22, 1942
Seasons1 (1942–1942)

Chicago White Sox 1942

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-0.1
29

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19421351456911075310.200.294.267.56162.360.7.279-0.1

Career totals

G
13
PA
51
AB
45
R
6
H
9
2B
1
3B
1
HR
0
RBI
7
BB
5
SO
3
SB
1
BA
.2000
OBP
.2941
SLG
.2667
OPS
.5608

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1942-09-16ATH @ CWS Gameday412010004
1942-09-14BOS @ CWS Gameday312000012
1942-09-20CWS @ BAL Gameday401100202
1942-09-21CWS @ DET Gameday401000201
1942-09-02CWS @ MIN Gameday521000101

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1942-04-14BAL @ CWS Gameday0.0000000
1942-04-15BAL @ CWS Gameday0.0000000
1942-04-16BAL @ CWS Gameday0.0000000
1942-04-17CWS @ CLE Gameday0.0000000
1942-04-18CWS @ CLE Gameday0.0000000

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.