MLB / Players

Bob Anderson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 210 lb

BornSeptember 29, 1935 · East Chicago, IN, USA

MLB debutJuly 31, 1957

Final gameSeptember 25, 1963

Seasons7 (1957–1963)

Chicago Cubs 1957–1962; Detroit Tigers 1963

Percentile snapshot

1960 season — qualified pitchers

66.7

46.3

14.8

51.9

7.4

SHO

201

44.4

24.1

55.6

115

46.3

203.7

46.3

ERA

4.11

11.1

WHIP

1.321

38.9

K/9

5.08

53.7

FIP

4.29

7.4

FIP-

113.6

9.3

ERA+

91.8

11.1

sWAR

1.2

11.1

of 55 qualified 1960 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.9

79.1

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1957	8	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.4	-100.0	.000	-0.6
1958	17	17	17	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	9	.118	.118	.118	.235	-57.5	-37.0	.107	0.5
1959	37	90	80	6	6	1	0	0	3	3	34	.075	.119	.088	.207	-56.0	-43.7	.105	1.5
1960	39	82	71	4	12	0	0	0	1	4	26	.169	.221	.169	.390	4.3	8.8	.191	1.2
1961	57	45	42	5	6	0	0	2	5	1	22	.143	.163	.286	.449	4.9	14.7	.196	1.3
1962	57	27	23	1	3	0	1	0	1	2	10	.130	.200	.217	.417	5.6	10.3	.200	0.0
1963	32	9	9	1	4	1	0	0	2	0	3	.444	.444	.556	1.000	186.3	175.3	.447	1.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1957	8	0	0	1	0	0	0	20	14	8	7	2	16.3	7.71	1.714	3.86	4.90	126.0	50.4	-0.6
1958	17	8	3	3	0	2	0	61	29	29	51	3	65.7	3.97	1.371	6.99	2.92	74.4	98.6	0.5
1959	37	36	12	13	0	7	1	245	108	77	113	21	235.3	4.13	1.368	4.32	3.87	97.9	95.7	1.5
1960	38	30	9	11	1	5	0	201	93	68	115	26	203.7	4.11	1.321	5.08	4.29	113.6	91.8	1.2
1961	57	12	7	10	8	1	0	162	72	56	96	14	152.0	4.26	1.434	5.68	3.75	90.3	97.3	1.3
1962	57	4	2	7	4	0	0	111	60	60	82	9	107.7	5.02	1.588	6.85	4.10	100.0	81.6	0.0
1963	32	3	3	1	0	0	0	58	22	21	38	5	60.0	3.30	1.317	5.70	3.63	97.1	113.1	1.1

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

247

274

246

RBI

107

.1341

OBP

.1737

SLG

.1748

OPS

.3485

Pitching

G (P)

246

SHO

841

SO (P)

502

BB allowed

319

ERA

4.261

WHIP

1.4001

K/9

5.37

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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1961-08-09	CHC @ SF Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	4
1961-09-19	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	2	4
1962-06-15	CHC @ NYM Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	1	3
1959-04-25	SF @ CHC Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	0	2
1960-04-12	CHC @ LAD Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1962-06-10	NYM @ CHC Gameday	9.0	7	4	2	1	11	1
1960-08-13	CHC @ PHI Gameday	7.0	9	2	2	3	10	0
1958-08-27	PHI @ CHC Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	5	9	1
1959-07-22	CHC @ LAD Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	1	9	0
1960-04-12	CHC @ LAD Gameday	8.0	5	2	2	5	9	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.