Whitey Herzog
Washington Senators 1956–1957; Kansas City Athletics 1958; Washington Senators 1958; Kansas City Athletics 1959–1960; Baltimore Orioles 1961–1962; Detroit Tigers 1963
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 117 | 465 | 421 | 49 | 103 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 35 | 35 | 74 | 8 | 5 | .245 | .302 | .337 | .639 | 67.6 | 69.0 | .300 | -0.4 |
| 1957 | 36 | 93 | 78 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 2 | .167 | .301 | .205 | .506 | 47.5 | 40.1 | .263 | -0.3 |
| 1958 | 96 | 119 | 101 | 11 | 23 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 17 | 26 | 0 | 3 | .228 | .336 | .277 | .613 | 72.9 | 69.0 | .296 | -0.3 |
| 1959 | 38 | 158 | 123 | 25 | 36 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 34 | 23 | 1 | 0 | .293 | .446 | .390 | .836 | 143.3 | 129.1 | .400 | 1.3 |
| 1960 | 83 | 295 | 252 | 43 | 67 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 38 | 40 | 32 | 0 | 1 | .266 | .364 | .417 | .781 | 111.6 | 108.6 | .358 | 1.0 |
| 1961 | 113 | 377 | 323 | 39 | 94 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 35 | 50 | 41 | 1 | 4 | .291 | .387 | .409 | .795 | 123.5 | 118.8 | .367 | 1.9 |
| 1962 | 99 | 312 | 263 | 34 | 70 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 35 | 41 | 36 | 2 | 3 | .266 | .369 | .403 | .772 | 119.5 | 115.4 | .355 | 1.4 |
| 1963 | 52 | 66 | 53 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .151 | .303 | .226 | .529 | 42.4 | 49.6 | .245 | -0.3 |
Career totals
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 | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956-08-02 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 1956-06-23 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 1961-08-17 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 1959-04-15 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1956-06-06 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-08-27 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957-08-28 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958-05-22 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958-05-23 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958-06-21 | BOS @ ATH 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.