MLB / Players

Bob Bescher

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 200 lb

BornFebruary 25, 1884 · London, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 5, 1908

Final gameSeptember 1, 1918

Seasons11 (1908–1918)

Cincinnati Reds 1908–1913; New York Giants 1914; St. Louis Cardinals 1915–1917; Cleveland Indians 1918

Percentile snapshot

1916 season — qualified batters

151

79.8

636

80.7

561

81.5

86.6

132

57.1

74.8

66.4

87.4

RBI

55.5

83.2

26.1

26.9

.235

17.6

OBP

.316

24.4

SLG

.339

38.7

OPS

.654

34.5

wRC+

101.1

41.2

OPS+

99.2

38.7

wOBA

.316

26.9

sWAR

1.4

52.1

of 120 qualified 1916 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

111.8

65.4

OPS+

108.2

58.7

sWAR

19.8

93.4

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
1908	32	127	114	16	31	5	5	0	17	9	22	10	0	.272	.336	.404	.740	137.7	138.3	.357	0.8
1909	124	513	446	73	107	17	6	1	34	56	76	54	0	.240	.335	.312	.647	104.7	100.8	.327	1.4
1910	150	682	589	95	147	20	10	4	48	81	75	70	0	.250	.344	.338	.682	104.6	102.3	.339	1.9
1911	153	716	599	106	165	32	10	1	45	102	78	81	0	.275	.385	.367	.753	119.4	115.5	.370	3.4
1912	145	646	548	120	154	29	11	4	38	83	61	67	0	.281	.381	.396	.777	119.1	116.9	.375	3.0
1913	141	615	511	86	132	22	11	1	37	94	68	38	0	.258	.377	.350	.727	114.8	108.2	.357	2.4
1914	135	571	512	82	138	23	4	6	35	45	48	36	0	.270	.336	.365	.701	111.7	112.1	.339	2.9
1915	130	559	486	71	128	15	7	4	34	52	53	27	19	.263	.342	.348	.690	110.8	108.1	.335	1.9
1916	151	636	561	78	132	24	8	6	43	60	50	39	12	.235	.316	.339	.654	101.1	99.2	.316	1.4
1917	42	134	110	10	17	1	1	1	8	20	13	3	0	.155	.290	.209	.499	63.9	54.8	.263	-0.3
1918	25	78	60	12	20	2	1	0	6	17	5	3	0	.333	.487	.400	.887	178.1	158.9	.452	0.9

Career totals

1,228

5,277

4,536

749

1,171

190

345th-most career 3B

RBI

345

619

549

428

61st-most career SB

.2582

OBP

.3533

SLG

.3512

OPS

.7045

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
1911-05-12	CIN @ ATL Gameday	7	3	5	1	1	0	0	0	8
1910-05-10	PHI @ CIN Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	1	0	8
1913-08-10	SF @ CIN Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	1	0	8
1914-07-14	SF @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	1	2	0	7
1915-08-12	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	1	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1908-04-14	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-16	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-17	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-19	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-20	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	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.