Bob Bowman
St. Louis Cardinals 1939–1940; New York Giants 1941; Chicago Cubs 1942
Percentile snapshot
1939 season — qualified pitchers
of 94 qualified 1939 pitchers (min 155 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 51 | 56 | 47 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 29 | 0 | 0 | .085 | .157 | .106 | .263 | -42.3 | -29.8 | .139 | 4.3 |
| 1940 | 28 | 39 | 33 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .061 | .162 | .061 | .223 | -42.5 | -37.4 | .131 | 0.5 |
| 1941 | 29 | 26 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .048 | .130 | .190 | .321 | -22.4 | -11.2 | .158 | -1.2 |
| 1942 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 51 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 141 | 49 | 60 | 78 | 8 | 169.3 | 2.60 | 1.187 | 4.15 | 3.58 | 87.2 | 157.8 | 4.3 |
| 1940 | 28 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 118 | 55 | 43 | 43 | 9 | 114.3 | 4.33 | 1.408 | 3.38 | 4.25 | 106.6 | 92.2 | 0.5 |
| 1941 | 29 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 100 | 51 | 36 | 25 | 10 | 80.3 | 5.71 | 1.693 | 2.80 | 4.94 | 133.6 | 64.8 | -1.2 |
| 1942 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.00 | 1.000 | 0.00 | 2.29 | 70.9 | — | 0.0 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-06-11 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1939-07-30 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1939-08-15 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1940-06-02 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1939-07-23 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-07-23 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 0 |
| 1939-05-07 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 7.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
| 1940-06-02 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| 1940-08-27 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 7.1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1941-08-22 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
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.