SPORTS  :  Baseball  |  Football  |  Basketball  |  Hockey  New! Hockey-Reference.com & B-R T-Shirts & Hats
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Players > Larry Herndon

Larry Herndon
Larry Darnell Herndon

Bats Right, Throws Right
Height 6' 3", Weight 195 lb.

Debut September 4, 1974
  vs. MON 0 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, RBI, 0 SB
Final Game October 2, 1988
Born November 3, 1953 in Sunflower, MS

Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 3rd round of the 1971 amateur draft. (All Transactions)

 About biographical information

BR Bullpen: Find or enter more info for this person (what's this?)
Oracle: Find all of this player's teammates.

Midwest Glass Fabricators sponsor(s) this page.

You can sponsor a page.
Page Expires: 2009-03-21 Alert Me!
        Your source for custom tempered flat glass and metal.

Batting  Glossary /
Gamelogs: / Splits: / HR Log / PI Finders:Game / Streak / Event / PI vs. Pitcher
/ Neutralize Stats
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP 
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1974 20 STL NL  12    1    3    1   0  0   0    0   0  0   0   0 1.000 1.000 1.000  463    1   0   0   0   0   0
 1976 22 SFG NL 115  337   42   97  11  3   2   23  12 10  23  45  .288  .337  .356   95  120   3   0   0   2   4
 1977 23 SFG NL  49  109   13   26   4  3   1    5   4  2   5  20  .239  .278  .358   71   39   2   0   1   1   4
 1978 24 SFG NL 151  471   52  122  15  9   1   32  13  8  35  71  .259  .311  .335   84  158  13   1   2   1  12
 1979 25 SFG NL 132  354   35   91  14  5   7   36   8  6  29  70  .257  .313  .384   96  136   3   2   5   1   3
 1980 26 SFG NL 139  493   54  127  17 11   8   49   8  8  19  91  .258  .284  .385   88  190   4   4   1   1  10
 1981 27 SFG NL  96  364   48  105  15  8   5   41  15  6  20  55  .288  .325  .415  111  151   3   3   2   1  12
 1982 28 DET AL 157  614   92  179  21 13  23   88  12  9  38  92  .292  .332  .480  121  295   2   4   3   1  20
 1983 29 DET AL 153  603   88  182  28  9  20   92   9  3  46  95  .302  .351  .478  129  288   0   6   6   3  20
 1984 30 DET AL 125  407   52  114  18  5   7   43   6  2  32  63  .280  .333  .400  103  163   1   3   1   2   8
 1985 31 DET AL 137  442   45  108  12  7  12   37   2  1  33  79  .244  .298  .385   86  170   1   1   1   1   9
 1986 32 DET AL 106  283   33   70  13  1   8   37   2  1  27  40  .247  .310  .385   89  109   0   5   2   1   3
 1987 33 DET AL  89  225   32   73  13  2   9   47   1  0  23  35  .324  .378  .520  140  117   0   6   0   0  12
 1988 34 DET AL  76  174   16   39   5  0   4   20   0  1  23  37  .224  .313  .322   81   56   0   3   0   1   8
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 14 Seasons    1537 4877  605 1334 186 76 107  550  92 57 353 793  .274  .322  .409  103 1993  32  38  24  16 125
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 162 Game Avg        514   64  141  20  8  11   58  10  6  37  84  .274  .322  .409  103  210   3   4   3   2  13
 Career High    157  614   92  182  28 13  23   92  15 10  46  95  .324  .378  .520  140  295  13   6   6   3  20
Special Batting  Glossary
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  PA  Outs  RC  RC/G   AIR    BA *lgBA   OBP *lgOBP  SLG *lgSLG  OPS *lgOPS*OPS+  OWP *BtRns BtWin SB% 
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 1974 20 STL NL    1    0    1          94|1.000  .262|1.000  .334|1.000  .379|2.000  .713| 463         0.5   0.0   0%
 1976 22 SFG NL  365  257   40   4.2    94| .288  .266| .337  .333| .356  .379| .693  .712|  95  .511  -3.0  -0.3  54%
 1977 23 SFG NL  117   91   10   3.0   102| .239  .268| .278  .336| .358  .408| .636  .744|  71  .307  -5.2  -0.5  66%
 1978 24 SFG NL  521  383   48   3.4    91| .259  .257| .311  .324| .335  .378| .646  .703|  84  .400 -10.8  -1.1  61%
 1979 25 SFG NL  389  277   43   4.2    94| .257  .260| .313  .325| .384  .386| .697  .711|  96  .476  -2.4  -0.2  57%
 1980 26 SFG NL  521  392   50   3.4    93| .258  .263| .284  .325| .385  .382| .669  .707|  88  .407 -10.4  -1.1  50%
 1981 27 SFG NL  391  283   46   4.4    90| .288  .260| .325  .325| .415  .373| .740  .698| 111  .530   3.6   0.4  71%
 1982 28 DET AL  659  470   90   5.2    98| .292  .264| .332  .328| .480  .402| .812  .730| 121  .552  13.9   1.4  57%
 1983 29 DET AL  658  450   97   5.8    95| .302  .262| .351  .324| .478  .395| .829  .719| 129  .608  22.9   2.3  75%
 1984 30 DET AL  445  307   55   4.8    97| .280  .264| .333  .326| .400  .398| .733  .724| 103  .528   1.2   0.1  75%
 1985 31 DET AL  478  346   50   3.9    99| .244  .261| .298  .327| .385  .406| .683  .733|  86  .421 -10.7  -1.1  66%
 1986 32 DET AL  316  222   36   4.3   100| .247  .261| .310  .330| .385  .408| .695  .737|  89  .465  -4.3  -0.4  66%
 1987 33 DET AL  254  170   42   6.6   102| .324  .260| .378  .328| .520  .418| .898  .746| 140  .626  13.8   1.3 100%
 1988 34 DET AL  201  147   17   3.1    92| .224  .256| .313  .320| .322  .385| .635  .706|  81  .344  -3.6  -0.4   0%
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 14 Seasons     5316 3795  625   4.4    96| .274  .262| .322  .326| .409  .393| .731  .719| 103  .498   5.6   0.4  61%

* indicates the value is park adjusted (now all 3-year factors)

Pitch Data Summary (Show or Hide)

Fielding  Glossary / Sort by Position, then Year
 Year Ag Tm  Lg Pos   G     PO    A    E   DP    FP   lgFP  RFg  lgRFg  RF9  lgRF9  GS   Inn  
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+
+---- Fielding Sorted by Year ------+
1974 20 STL NL CF 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.00 2.40 3.00 2.70 0 3.0 1976 22 SFG NL CF 110 224 8 8 4 .967 .984 2.11 2.50 2.80 2.85 77 746.7 1977 23 SFG NL CF 44 88 2 4 0 .957 .986 2.05 2.34 3.24 2.73 25 250.3 1978 24 SFG NL CF 149 363 3 10 0 .973 .983 2.46 2.29 2.87 2.80 121 1148.3 1979 25 SFG NL OF 122 196 10 8 2 .963 .979 1.69 2.00 2.31 2.33 81 804.0 CF 82 120 5 5 2 .962 .986 1.52 2.43 2.62 2.82 36 428.7 LF 39 63 5 3 1 .958 .970 1.74 1.58 2.10 2.01 34 291.3 RF 13 13 0 0 0 1.000 .977 1.00 1.87 1.39 2.19 11 84.0 1980 26 SFG NL OF 122 247 8 11 1 .959 .980 2.09 1.98 2.23 2.31 114 1031.3 CF 58 133 1 5 0 .964 .984 2.31 2.37 2.84 2.83 42 425.0 LF 53 93 6 5 1 .952 .976 1.87 1.68 2.19 2.06 50 406.3 RF 24 40 1 0 0 1.000 .976 1.71 1.71 1.84 2.06 22 200.0 1981 27 SFG NL OF 93 207 8 5 1 .977 .980 2.31 2.02 2.37 2.33 90 816.7 LF 83 182 7 5 0 .974 .975 2.28 1.79 2.40 2.12 78 709.3 RF 11 14 1 0 1 1.000 .980 1.36 1.65 1.99 2.08 8 68.0 CF 7 11 0 0 0 1.000 .982 1.57 2.53 2.52 2.79 4 39.3 1982 28 DET AL LF 156 331 11 6 2 .983 .981 2.19 1.91 2.28 2.29 151 1348.0 DH 3 1983 29 DET AL OF 133 283 6 15 1 .951 .981 2.17 2.16 2.25 2.50 129 1156.0 LF 132 285 6 15 1 .951 .977 2.20 1.90 2.28 2.32 128 1147.0 DH 19 RF 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.00 1.80 1.00 2.20 1 9.0 1984 30 DET AL LF 118 200 6 3 0 .986 .982 1.75 1.80 2.07 2.27 98 896.3 DH 4 1985 31 DET AL LF 136 275 7 7 4 .976 .977 2.07 1.77 2.36 2.25 110 1076.0 1986 32 DET AL LF 83 158 2 2 0 .988 .977 1.93 1.77 2.28 2.24 71 630.7 DH 18 1987 33 DET AL OF 57 82 4 1 1 .989 .979 1.51 2.00 2.20 2.31 39 352.3 LF 32 41 4 1 1 .978 .974 1.41 1.73 2.14 2.11 17 189.3 RF 26 41 0 0 0 1.000 .979 1.58 1.75 2.26 2.12 22 163.0 DH 23 1988 34 DET AL DH 53 LF 15 21 0 0 0 1.000 .977 1.40 1.85 2.36 2.26 10 80.0
+---- Fielding Sorted by Position --+
1974 20 STL NL CF 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.00 2.40 3.00 2.70 0 3.0 1976 22 SFG NL CF 110 224 8 8 4 .967 .984 2.11 2.50 2.80 2.85 77 746.7 1977 23 SFG NL CF 44 88 2 4 0 .957 .986 2.05 2.34 3.24 2.73 25 250.3 1978 24 SFG NL CF 149 363 3 10 0 .973 .983 2.46 2.29 2.87 2.80 121 1148.3 1979 25 SFG NL CF 82 120 5 5 2 .962 .986 1.52 2.43 2.62 2.82 36 428.7 1980 26 SFG NL CF 58 133 1 5 0 .964 .984 2.31 2.37 2.84 2.83 42 425.0 1981 27 SFG NL CF 7 11 0 0 0 1.000 .982 1.57 2.53 2.52 2.79 4 39.3 1982 28 DET AL DH 3 1983 29 DET AL DH 19 1984 30 DET AL DH 4 1986 32 DET AL DH 18 1987 33 DET AL DH 23 1988 34 DET AL DH 53 1979 25 SFG NL LF 39 63 5 3 1 .958 .970 1.74 1.58 2.10 2.01 34 291.3 1980 26 SFG NL LF 53 93 6 5 1 .952 .976 1.87 1.68 2.19 2.06 50 406.3 1981 27 SFG NL LF 83 182 7 5 0 .974 .975 2.28 1.79 2.40 2.12 78 709.3 1982 28 DET AL LF 156 331 11 6 2 .983 .981 2.19 1.91 2.28 2.29 151 1348.0 1983 29 DET AL LF 132 285 6 15 1 .951 .977 2.20 1.90 2.28 2.32 128 1147.0 1984 30 DET AL LF 118 200 6 3 0 .986 .982 1.75 1.80 2.07 2.27 98 896.3 1985 31 DET AL LF 136 275 7 7 4 .976 .977 2.07 1.77 2.36 2.25 110 1076.0 1986 32 DET AL LF 83 158 2 2 0 .988 .977 1.93 1.77 2.28 2.24 71 630.7 1987 33 DET AL LF 32 41 4 1 1 .978 .974 1.41 1.73 2.14 2.11 17 189.3 1988 34 DET AL LF 15 21 0 0 0 1.000 .977 1.40 1.85 2.36 2.26 10 80.0 1974 20 STL NL OF 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.00 2.00 3.00 2.40 0 3.0 1976 22 SFG NL OF 110 226 8 8 4 .967 .979 2.13 2.03 2.82 2.34 77 746.7 1977 23 SFG NL OF 44 87 2 4 0 .957 .978 2.02 1.93 3.20 2.26 25 250.3 1978 24 SFG NL OF 149 369 3 10 0 .974 .980 2.50 1.94 2.92 2.31 121 1148.3 1979 25 SFG NL OF 122 196 10 8 2 .963 .979 1.69 2.00 2.31 2.33 81 804.0 1980 26 SFG NL OF 122 247 8 11 1 .959 .980 2.09 1.98 2.23 2.31 114 1031.3 1981 27 SFG NL OF 93 207 8 5 1 .977 .980 2.31 2.02 2.37 2.33 90 816.7 1982 28 DET AL OF 155 328 11 6 3 .983 .982 2.19 2.15 2.26 2.47 151 1348.0 1983 29 DET AL OF 133 283 6 15 1 .951 .981 2.17 2.16 2.25 2.50 129 1156.0 1984 30 DET AL OF 117 199 7 3 0 .986 .983 1.76 2.17 2.07 2.51 98 896.3 1985 31 DET AL OF 136 273 7 7 4 .976 .982 2.06 2.10 2.34 2.44 110 1076.0 1986 32 DET AL OF 83 156 2 2 0 .988 .980 1.90 2.06 2.25 2.39 71 630.7 1987 33 DET AL OF 57 82 4 1 1 .989 .979 1.51 2.00 2.20 2.31 39 352.3 1988 34 DET AL OF 15 21 0 0 0 1.000 .977 1.40 2.14 2.36 2.48 10 80.0 1979 25 SFG NL RF 13 13 0 0 0 1.000 .977 1.00 1.87 1.39 2.19 11 84.0 1980 26 SFG NL RF 24 40 1 0 0 1.000 .976 1.71 1.71 1.84 2.06 22 200.0 1981 27 SFG NL RF 11 14 1 0 1 1.000 .980 1.36 1.65 1.99 2.08 8 68.0 1983 29 DET AL RF 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.00 1.80 1.00 2.20 1 9.0 1987 33 DET AL RF 26 41 0 0 0 1.000 .979 1.58 1.75 2.26 2.12 22 163.0
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+ Position Total OF*1337 2675 76 80 17 .972 .981 2.06 2.06 2.39 2.39 1116 10339.7 847 451 75# LF* 847 1649 54 47 10 .973 .978 2.01 1.81 2.26 2.23 747 6774.3 CF* 451 940 19 32 6 .968 .984 2.13 2.39 2.84 2.81 305 3041.3 DH 120 Games not counted in Overall Total below RF* 75 109 2 0 1 1.000 .978 1.48 1.74 1.91 2.10 64 524.0 +--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+ Overall Total 1337 2675 76 80 17 .972 .981 2.06 2.06 2.39 2.39 1116 10340
# indicates breakdown of outfield by position games played is for entire career.
An Important note about our fielding stats

Postseason Batting Gamelogs / Vs. Pitcher

 Year   Round Tm  Opp WLser  G   AB  R   H  2B 3B HR RBI  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG   SB CS  SH  SF HBP
+------+-----+---+---+-----+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+---+--+---+---+---+
 1984   ALCS  DET KCR     W   2   5   1   1  0  0  1   1   1   2  .200  .333  .800   0  0   0   0   0 
        WS    DET SDP     W   5  15   1   5  0  0  1   3   3   2  .333  .444  .533   0  1   0   0   0 
 1987   ALCS  DET MIN     L   3   9   1   3  1  0  0   2   1   1  .333  .400  .444   0  0   0   0   0 
+------+-----+---+---+-----+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+---+--+---+---+---+
  2 Lg Champ Series     1-1   5  14   2   4  1  0  1   3   2   3  .286  .375  .571   0  0   0   0   0 
  3 Postseason Series   2-1  10  29   3   9  1  0  2   6   5   5  .310  .412  .552   0  1   0   0   0 
+--------------------+-----+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+---+--+---+---+---+

WLser shows whether the player's team Won or Lost the series.
Appearances on Leaderboards and Awards   Glossary

Awards are Year-League-Award, Stats are Year-Value-Rank, (Pos) for All-Star indicates starter & * indicates they played.

At Bats
1982 AL-614-6
1983 AL-603-10

Hits
1982 AL-179-8
1983 AL-182-8

Total Bases
1983 AL-288-10

Triples
1978 NL-9-4
1980 NL-11-3
1981 NL-8-4
1982 AL-13-2
1983 AL-9-2

Sac. Hits
1978 NL-13-8

Grounded into Double Plays
1981 NL-12-5
1982 AL-20-7

Power/Speed Number
1982 AL-15.8-9

Outs
1982 AL-470-5

Youngest Player
1974 NL-20-9

     

Gray Ink: Batting - 13 (1225) (Average HOFer ≈ 144)
HOF Standards: Batting - 9.7 (1738) (Average HOFer ≈ 50)
HOF Monitor: Batting - 4.5 (1559) (Likely HOFer > 100)
Overall Rank in parentheses.

Act.- Denotes rank among active players, Car. - Denotes career rank
Click on the Car, Act or Year to see the career, active, or league leaderboard.


Similar Batters  View in Pop-up

Compare Stats
  1. Kevin Bass (950)
  2. Bob Skinner (938)
  3. Jay Johnstone (935)
  4. Juan Beniquez (934)
  5. Gary Ward (933)
  6. Cleon Jones (931)
  7. Lee Lacy (926)
  8. Tony Gonzalez (926)
  9. Hector Lopez (924)
  10. Mark Kotsay (923)
Most Similar by Age 

Click on C to compare their stats
Mouse over numbers to view names
  1. Joe Orsulak (980)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Hosken Powell (977)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Johnny Bates (963)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Chief Wilson (973)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Beals Becker (974)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Cleon Jones (963)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Cleon Jones (964)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Ken Landreaux (953)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Cleon Jones (956)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Cleon Jones (944)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  11. Tito Francona (947)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Explanation of Similarity Scores


Transactions 

June 8, 1971: Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 3rd round of the 1971 amateur draft.

May 9, 1975: Traded by the St. Louis Cardinals with Luis Gonzalez (minors) to the San Francisco Giants for Ron Bryant.

December 9, 1981: Traded by the San Francisco Giants to the Detroit Tigers for Dan Schatzeder and Mike Chris.

November 12, 1986: Released by the Detroit Tigers.

December 8, 1986: Signed as a Free Agent with the Detroit Tigers.

November 9, 1987: Released by the Detroit Tigers.

December 14, 1987: Signed as a Free Agent with the Detroit Tigers.

November 4, 1988: Released by the Detroit Tigers.


The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Last transaction is September 30, 2007.
Salaries Leaders
1985Detroit Tigers$675,000
1986Detroit Tigers$687,500
1987Detroit Tigers$225,000
1988Detroit Tigers$375,000
Career (may be incomplete)$1,962,500

Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, member of SABR.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Uniforms 
View Larry Herndon's uniforms at Dressed to the Nines
a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit

Other References 
Error?     Compare     Search Baseball Index     Other Links@google.com     Baseball Library     Baseball-Almanac.com     Retrosheet     The Baseball Cube     The Baseball Page     WhatIfSports: Larry Herndon    

Viewed 31981 times through May 11, 2008.
Name and misspellings: Larry lary Darnell Larry lary Herndon

Pages Updated through May 10,2008. Pages designed and created by Baseball-Reference part of Sports Reference, Inc. (Copyright ©2000-2007).
Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org and RetroSheet.org..

You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Players > Larry Herndon
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page

Stats updated through May 10, 2008.


Copyright © 2000-2008 Sports Reference, LLC, All rights reserved.
A Sports Reference LLC Site : About BR | About Sports Reference | Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service

Partner With: FantasyPlayers.com. Contact Fantasy Sports Ventures for advertising information.