[Highlander]

Harry Heilmann- Harry was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies with the first pick of the 1912 draft. He played his first season in 1913 at age 18 and stayed with the Phillies until he retired in 1932....that is a little misleading, as he only played one game and had one at bat that year, so for all intents and purposes, his last season was really 1931. Even that was about a half season.

Heilmann's numbers were-

9421 AB, 3052 H (42nd), .324 BA (19th), .873 OPS (44th), 1516 R (78th), 622 doubles (21st), 133 triples (T-70th), 190 HR, 1488 RBI (64th), 150 SB, 70.7 WAR (85th)

Harry's Replay numbers were on par with his real life numbers, other than BA, and in some ways they were even better. He led the league in batting 4 times, OBP 4 times, SLG 3 times and OPS 3 times. His 62 doubles in 1930 is tied for the 3rd most of all time. Heilmann's power numbers are an interesting aspect of his career. His first two seasons, he led the league each year with 12. Then he didn't hit double digits until 5 years later. Then he went on a 4 year streak of 10, 19, 20, 14....followed by 5 more years of single digit HRs. He then had two more double digit years near the end of his career with 13 in 1929 and 21 in 1930 (same year as his 62 doubles). His best overall season is a little hard to determine, but I'll go with 1923. That year, he hit .377/.464/.587, 104 R, 31 doubles, 13 triples, 14 HR, 84 RBI, 13 SB and 6.1 WAR. He led the league in BA, OBP, SLG and obviously OPS. He also set career highs in OBP and SLG. His career high in batting was in 1925 when he hit .391. Harry also had seasons where he hit .389, .361, .356 (twice) and .351.

I totally missed this my first time posting, but Harry missed the whole 1916 season with a torn PCL. He suffered the injury on 8/12/1915 and was projected to be out for 9 months. In February of 1916, it was announced that he had a setback and would require surgery....so he was out an additional 12 months. He clearly recovered well, although that 1917 season when he returned, he "only" hit .290 and had probably his worst season overall.

He won 4 World Series with the Phillies. Individually, he won 1 Gold Glove, 7 Silver Sluggers, and he was named an All-Star 12 times. His WAR totals were all relatively low for the offensive seasons he had, so I think that may have hurt his MVP chances. His highest WAR numbers were in the 6.3-5.8 range....based on that he must not have done well int he field, but he somehow snuck a Gold Glove in there! Not surprisingly, however, he was inducted into the HOF in his first year with 95.6% of the vote.