Willard Hershberger
Cincinnati Reds 1938–1940
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 49 | 112 | 105 | 12 | 29 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | .276 | .315 | .324 | .639 | 77.1 | 79.0 | .300 | 0.4 |
| 1939 | 63 | 195 | 174 | 23 | 60 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .345 | .384 | .420 | .803 | 118.6 | 117.5 | .372 | 1.6 |
| 1940 | 48 | 133 | 123 | 6 | 38 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .309 | .351 | .374 | .725 | 101.7 | 101.7 | .337 | 0.8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-07-23 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1939-06-18 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1939-05-09 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1938-05-09 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 1939-08-21 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-04-19 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-20 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-21 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-22 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-23 | CIN @ PIT 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.