MLB / Players

Bob Bruce

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 200 lb

BornMay 16, 1933 · New York, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 14, 1959

Final gameJune 24, 1967

Seasons9 (1959–1967)

Detroit Tigers 1959–1961; Houston Colt .45's 1962–1964; Houston Astros 1965–1966; Atlanta Braves 1967

Percentile snapshot

1965 season — qualified pitchers

30.6

61.1

12.5

4.2

37.5

SHO

19.4

241

15.3

13.9

94.4

145

62.5

26.4

229.7

66.7

ERA

3.72

30.6

WHIP

1.215

47.2

K/9

5.68

56.9

FIP

3.23

59.7

FIP-

95.6

55.6

ERA+

90.8

19.4

sWAR

1.1

20.8

of 73 qualified 1965 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

90.6

7.4

sWAR

6.7

82.4

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
1959	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1960	34	45	39	4	7	0	0	0	4	11	.179	.256	.179	.435	18.2	19.3	.219	1.6
1961	14	12	9	1	1	1	0	1	2	2	.111	.273	.222	.495	41.3	33.8	.253	0.3
1962	32	68	55	8	11	1	0	7	12	14	.200	.343	.218	.561	73.8	59.4	.289	1.5
1963	32	64	55	5	7	2	1	1	5	17	.127	.213	.200	.413	23.5	23.3	.204	0.9
1964	37	72	63	1	12	1	0	1	2	14	.190	.239	.206	.445	30.9	31.1	.214	3.7
1965	35	80	74	3	9	2	0	6	1	26	.122	.132	.149	.280	-31.0	-19.1	.129	1.1
1966	25	47	39	2	3	0	0	1	1	14	.077	.100	.077	.177	-61.3	-48.6	.087	-2.0
1967	12	13	12	1	2	0	0	0	1	4	.167	.231	.167	.397	15.7	16.5	.201	-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
1959	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	2	3	1	1	2.0	9.00	2.500	4.50	12.46	308.6	44.9	-0.1
1960	34	15	4	7	0	1	0	127	54	56	76	16	130.0	3.74	1.408	5.26	4.24	107.4	105.6	1.6
1961	14	6	1	2	0	0	0	57	22	24	25	6	44.7	4.43	1.813	5.04	4.88	119.8	91.8	0.3
1962	32	27	10	9	0	6	0	164	79	82	135	16	175.0	4.06	1.406	6.94	3.98	106.6	91.9	1.5
1963	30	25	5	9	0	1	1	162	68	60	123	7	170.3	3.59	1.303	6.50	2.79	89.3	86.8	0.9
1964	35	29	15	9	0	9	4	191	62	33	135	8	202.3	2.76	1.107	6.00	2.46	74.1	120.6	3.7
1965	35	34	9	18	0	7	1	241	95	38	145	22	229.7	3.72	1.215	5.68	3.23	95.6	90.8	1.1
1966	25	23	3	13	0	1	0	160	77	29	71	16	129.7	5.34	1.458	4.93	4.04	117.1	64.5	-2.0
1967	12	7	2	3	1	1	0	42	21	15	22	3	38.7	4.89	1.474	5.12	3.77	112.6	68.5	-0.3

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

223

401

346

RBI

102

.1503

OBP

.2196

SLG

.1763

OPS

.3959

Pitching

G (P)

219

167

SHO

1,122

SO (P)

733

BB allowed

340

ERA

3.849

WHIP

1.3240

K/9

5.88

406th-highest career K/9

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
1963-07-05	ATL @ HOU Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	1	5
1963-08-09	HOU @ PIT Gameday	3	1	3	1	0	0	4
1962-09-04	PHI @ HOU Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	2	3
1965-09-26	CIN @ HOU Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	0	2
1961-06-11	TEX @ DET Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1965-05-26	CIN @ HOU Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	3	13
1963-05-13	NYM @ HOU Gameday	8.2	3	2	2	4	11
1962-06-05	ATL @ HOU Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	1	10
1964-05-24	NYM @ HOU Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	0	10
1964-09-20	NYM @ HOU Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	0	10

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.