Herman Long

1889–1904 · 16 seasons · Bats left, throws right · Born 1866

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1889	Kansas City Cowboys	OTH	136	648	574	137	158	32	6	3	60	64	63	89	.275	.358	.368	.726	6.2
1890	Boston Beaneaters	NL	101	475	431	95	108	15	3	8	52	40	34	49	.251	.320	.355	.675	2.7
1891	Boston Beaneaters	NL	139	665	577	129	163	21	12	9	75	80	51	60	.282	.377	.407	.785	6.1
1892	Boston Beaneaters	NL	151	698	646	115	181	33	6	6	78	44	36	57	.280	.334	.378	.712	5.2
1893	Boston Beaneaters	NL	128	630	552	149	159	22	6	6	58	73	32	38	.288	.376	.382	.758	3.5
1894	Boston Beaneaters	NL	104	522	475	136	154	28	11	12	79	35	17	24	.324	.375	.505	.881	2.2
1895	Boston Beaneaters	NL	125	595	540	109	170	23	10	9	75	31	13	36	.315	.355	.444	.800	2.3
1896	Boston Beaneaters	NL	120	545	502	106	173	26	8	6	101	26	16	38	.345	.383	.464	.847	4.7
1897	Boston Beaneaters	NL	107	492	450	89	145	32	7	3	69	23	17	22	.322	.358	.444	.802	2.8
1898	Boston Beaneaters	NL	144	645	589	99	156	21	10	6	99	39	24	20	.265	.311	.365	.676	1.9
1899	Boston Beaneaters	NL	145	651	578	91	153	30	8	6	100	45	27	20	.265	.321	.375	.697	1.2
1900	Boston Beaneaters	NL	125	550	486	80	127	19	4	12	66	44	23	26	.261	.325	.391	.716	1.7
1901	Boston Beaneaters	NL	138	559	518	54	112	14	6	3	68	25	56	20	.216	.254	.284	.537	-1.0
1902	Boston Beaneaters	NL	120	482	437	40	101	11	0	2	44	31	18	24	.231	.284	.270	.554	1.6
1903	Detroit Tigers	AL	91	344	319	27	68	15	0	0	31	12	35	14	.213	.244	.260	.504	-0.6
1904	Philadelphia Phillies	NL	1	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	0.0
Subtotal	American & National Leagues · 15 seasons		1739	7857	7104	1319	1971	310	91	88	995	548	399	448	.277	.333	.384	.717	34.4
Subtotal	Other leagues · 1 season		136	648	574	137	158	32	6	3	60	64	63	89	.275	.358	.368	.726	6.2
Career	16 seasons		1875	8505	7678	1456	2129	342	97	91	1055	612	462	537	.277	.335	.383	.718	40.6

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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Not every award existed yet. This database has Most Valuable Player from 1911, Rookie of the Year from 1947, Cy Young Award from 1956, Gold Glove from 1957, Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

— means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: OTH (Other leagues), NL (National League), AL (American League).

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). The season lines on this page are our own derivative of that database — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.