MLB / Players

Bernie Friberg

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 178 lb

BornAugust 18, 1899 · Manchester, NH, USA

MLB debutAugust 20, 1919

Final gameJune 27, 1933

Seasons14 (1919–1933)

Chicago Cubs 1919–1920; Chicago Cubs 1922–1925; Philadelphia Phillies 1925–1932; Boston Red Sox 1933

Percentile snapshot

1929 season — qualified batters

128

518

455

51.2

55.5

137

43.9

76.2

60.4

RBI

42.1

66.5

7.9

2.4

34.8

.301

OBP

.370

46.3

SLG

.437

51.8

OPS

.808

48.2

wRC+

89.7

31.1

OPS+

90.0

31.7

wOBA

.368

45.7

sWAR

1.2

of 165 qualified 1929 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

87.3

19.5

OPS+

85.3

16.2

sWAR

9.0

85.7

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1919	8	20	20	0	4	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	.200	.200	.250	.450	22.9	35.7	.209	-0.1
1920	50	124	114	11	24	5	1	0	7	6	20	2	2	.211	.250	.272	.522	42.1	48.6	.249	-0.5
1922	97	343	296	51	92	8	2	0	23	37	37	8	10	.311	.391	.351	.742	96.8	91.4	.356	0.7
1923	146	617	547	91	174	27	11	12	88	45	49	13	19	.318	.372	.473	.846	121.3	122.3	.386	3.8
1924	142	587	495	67	138	19	3	5	82	66	53	19	27	.279	.369	.360	.729	101.2	96.6	.346	2.3
1925	135	519	456	53	121	17	4	6	38	53	57	1	2	.265	.344	.360	.704	74.7	73.8	.329	0.2
1926	144	553	478	38	128	21	3	1	51	57	77	2	0	.268	.346	.331	.676	77.8	76.0	.325	0.5
1927	111	396	335	31	78	8	2	1	28	41	49	3	0	.233	.322	.278	.600	60.5	57.6	.295	-0.5
1928	52	113	94	11	19	3	0	1	7	12	16	0	0	.202	.292	.266	.558	40.6	41.9	.273	-0.3
1929	128	518	455	74	137	21	10	7	55	49	54	1	0	.301	.370	.437	.808	89.7	90.0	.368	1.2
1930	105	387	331	62	113	21	1	4	42	47	35	1	0	.341	.425	.447	.872	105.1	101.3	.397	1.5
1931	103	392	353	33	92	19	5	1	26	33	25	1	0	.261	.324	.351	.675	71.1	72.9	.316	0.0
1932	61	178	154	17	37	8	2	0	14	19	23	0	0	.240	.324	.318	.642	63.3	63.3	.301	-0.1
1933	17	48	41	5	13	3	0	0	9	6	1	0	0	.317	.404	.390	.794	113.7	109.4	.377	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1925	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	3	1	0	4.0	4.50	1.750	2.25	4.86	102.6	105.2	0.2

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

1,299

4,795

4,169

544

1,170

181

RBI

471

498

.2806

OBP

.3559

SLG

.3725

OPS

.7284

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

4.500

WHIP

1.7500

K/9

2.25

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
1929-05-13	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	1	4	0	9
1929-04-30	ATL @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	6	1	8
1923-07-21	CHC @ PHI Gameday	5	4	4	1	0	1	4	0	8
1929-06-19	SF @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	2	1	8
1923-08-19	CHC @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	1	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1925-08-24	STL @ PHI Gameday	4.0	4	2	2	3	1
1919-04-24	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-25	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-26	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-27	STL @ CHC Gameday	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.