MLB / Players

Bernie Boland

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 168 lb

BornJanuary 21, 1892 · Rochester, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1915

Final gameJune 17, 1921

Seasons7 (1915–1921)

Detroit Tigers 1915–1920; St. Louis Browns 1921

Percentile snapshot

1919 season — qualified pitchers

72.3

80.9

70.2

7.4

58.5

73.4

SHO

28.7

222

22.3

9.6

62.8

11.7

242.7

75.5

ERA

3.04

41.5

WHIP

1.245

43.6

K/9

2.63

26.6

FIP

3.35

28.7

FIP-

104.2

35.1

ERA+

105.6

41.5

sWAR

2.6

57.4

of 95 qualified 1919 pitchers (min 140 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

91.6

sWAR

6.2

81.7

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1915	47	71	63	5	11	1	0	1	7	14	.175	.257	.190	.448	32.2	31.1	.236	1.8
1916	49	39	32	4	8	0	0	2	5	12	.250	.351	.250	.601	85.6	78.3	.314	-0.2
1917	45	81	72	8	4	1	1	2	4	19	.056	.105	.097	.202	-52.5	-38.7	.109	1.7
1918	29	75	69	9	12	3	0	2	6	17	.174	.240	.217	.457	34.5	39.7	.235	2.1
1919	35	85	74	2	8	1	1	4	8	18	.108	.195	.149	.344	-7.0	-2.8	.182	2.6
1920	4	7	7	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.286	.429	-1.8	12.2	.189	-0.6
1921	7	11	10	1	1	0	0	0	1	2	.100	.182	.100	.282	-32.1	-28.2	.154	-1.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1915	45	18	13	7	2	8	1	167	70	75	72	2	202.7	3.11	1.194	3.20	2.99	97.8	98.4	1.8
1916	46	9	10	3	3	5	1	111	57	73	59	1	130.3	3.94	1.412	4.07	3.29	113.1	73.9	-0.2
1917	43	28	16	11	6	13	3	192	71	95	89	0	238.0	2.68	1.206	3.37	2.67	98.7	100.6	1.7
1918	29	25	14	10	0	14	4	176	60	67	63	1	204.0	2.65	1.191	2.78	2.68	99.4	101.9	2.1
1919	35	30	14	16	1	18	1	222	82	80	71	7	242.7	3.04	1.245	2.63	3.35	104.2	105.6	2.6
1920	4	3	0	2	0	1	0	23	15	14	4	0	17.3	7.79	2.135	2.08	5.21	138.9	48.1	-0.6
1921	7	6	1	4	0	0	0	34	28	28	6	2	27.0	9.33	2.296	2.00	7.07	157.4	48.1	-1.2

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

216

369

327

RBI

.1376

OBP

.2123

SLG

.1713

OPS

.3836

Pitching

G (P)

209

119

SHO

1,062

SO (P)

364

BB allowed

432

ERA

3.246

287th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2778

461st-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.08

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	RBI	TB
1915-04-24	DET @ CLE Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	3
1918-06-13	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	0	3
1919-09-25	CLE @ DET Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	2	3
1917-07-10	MIN @ DET Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	3
1915-05-04	DET @ BAL Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1916-07-04	DET @ CLE Gameday	9.0	3	2	1	4	10	1
1919-07-09	MIN @ DET Gameday	10.0	3	1	0	0	8	0
1917-09-11	CLE @ DET Gameday	8.0	4	1	1	7	8	0
1918-05-04	CWS @ DET Gameday	11.0	9	1	1	5	7	0
1917-05-20	NYY @ DET Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	1	7	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.