Bob Buhl

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornAugust 12, 1928 · Saginaw, MI, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1953

Final gameApril 30, 1967

Seasons15 (1953–1967)

Milwaukee Braves 1953–1961; Chicago Cubs 1962; Milwaukee Braves 1962; Chicago Cubs 1963–1966; Philadelphia Phillies 1966–1967

Percentile snapshot

1965 season — qualified pitchers

5.6

43.1

44.4

4.2

SHO

207

40.3

29.2

65.3

13.9

11.1

184.3

19.4

ERA

4.39

6.9

WHIP

1.432

4.2

K/9

4.49

16.7

FIP

4.40

2.8

FIP-

120.0

6.9

ERA+

83.4

8.3

sWAR

-0.3

5.6

of 73 qualified 1965 pitchers (min 164 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.9

52.8

sWAR

24.9

95.3

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1953	30	60	53	3	6	0	2	2	18	0	0	.113	.145	.113	.259	-37.5	-29.0	.125	3.0
1954	31	33	31	0	1	0	0	2	12	0	0	.032	.091	.032	.123	-79.6	-64.7	.072	0.5
1955	38	67	57	2	6	0	0	3	24	0	0	.105	.150	.105	.255	-33.1	-28.2	.128	3.0
1956	38	80	73	1	7	2	3	1	34	0	0	.096	.108	.123	.231	-48.8	-35.6	.106	2.3
1957	34	82	73	4	6	0	4	6	34	0	0	.082	.152	.082	.234	-34.5	-31.7	.125	3.8
1958	11	26	25	3	5	0	0	0	6	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	1.7	11.7	.182	0.8
1959	31	74	70	2	4	0	1	2	38	0	0	.057	.083	.057	.140	-70.3	-59.8	.071	3.2
1960	36	92	89	4	14	0	4	0	40	0	0	.157	.157	.157	.315	-20.5	-10.0	.144	3.2
1961	32	67	60	2	4	0	2	5	30	0	0	.067	.138	.067	.205	-41.4	-41.3	.113	0.8
1962	35	85	70	2	0	0	1	6	36	1	1	.000	.090	.000	.090	-82.1	-73.9	.067	2.0
1963	37	81	74	2	8	0	5	0	28	1	0	.108	.108	.108	.216	-63.3	-38.9	.099	2.1
1964	36	85	73	3	7	0	1	6	31	0	0	.096	.163	.096	.258	-33.9	-26.3	.136	1.6
1965	32	72	67	3	4	0	2	3	36	0	1	.060	.100	.060	.160	-70.3	-54.4	.084	-0.3
1966	33	48	42	0	4	0	1	2	22	0	0	.095	.156	.095	.251	-34.9	-27.8	.130	-1.1
1967	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-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
1953	30	18	13	8	0	8	3	133	51	73	83	9	154.3	2.97	1.335	4.84	3.77	94.5	134.3	3.0
1954	31	14	2	7	3	2	1	117	49	65	57	5	110.3	4.00	1.650	4.65	3.80	100.7	94.3	0.5
1955	38	27	13	11	1	11	1	168	72	109	117	13	201.7	3.21	1.374	5.22	3.62	95.4	118.2	3.0
1956	38	33	18	8	0	13	2	190	80	105	86	18	216.7	3.32	1.362	3.57	4.00	113.4	106.2	2.3
1957	34	31	18	7	0	14	2	191	66	121	117	15	216.7	2.74	1.440	4.86	4.01	112.3	130.2	3.8
1958	11	10	5	2	1	3	0	74	28	30	27	5	73.0	3.45	1.425	3.33	3.93	109.0	104.5	0.8
1959	31	25	15	9	0	12	4	181	63	74	105	19	198.0	2.86	1.288	4.77	3.96	109.4	126.4	3.2
1960	36	33	16	9	0	11	2	202	82	103	121	23	238.7	3.09	1.278	4.56	4.22	120.8	113.1	3.2
1961	32	28	9	10	0	9	1	180	86	98	77	23	188.3	4.11	1.476	3.68	5.08	133.7	92.4	0.8
1962	35	31	12	14	0	8	1	210	92	98	110	23	214.0	3.87	1.439	4.63	4.55	111.2	105.8	2.0
1963	37	34	11	14	0	6	0	219	85	62	108	24	226.0	3.38	1.243	4.30	3.79	109.4	102.2	2.1
1964	36	35	15	14	0	11	3	208	97	68	107	22	227.7	3.83	1.212	4.23	4.03	109.7	95.8	1.6
1965	32	31	13	11	0	2	0	207	90	57	92	26	184.3	4.39	1.432	4.49	4.40	120.0	83.4	-0.3
1966	33	19	6	8	1	1	0	160	74	40	60	11	134.3	4.96	1.489	4.02	3.83	106.5	72.4	-1.1
1967	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	4	2	1	2	3.0	12.00	2.667	3.00	12.66	372.0	28.4	-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

457

952

857

RBI

389

.0887

OBP

.1290

SLG

.0910

OPS

.2200

Pitching

G (P)

457

369

184th-most career GS

166

206th-most career W

132

263rd-most career L

111

359th-most career CG

SHO

246th-most career SHO

2,587

231st-most career IP

SO (P)

1,268

348th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,105

74th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.545

484th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3726

K/9

4.41

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	RBI	TB
1953-06-14	ATL @ PIT Gameday	4	1	3	1	3
1957-05-29	CHC @ ATL Gameday	4	1	2	1	2
1960-09-30	ATL @ PIT Gameday	5	1	2	1	2
1964-06-28	HOU @ CHC Gameday	3	0	2	1	2
1955-08-17	ATL @ STL Gameday	4	0	2	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1955-07-14	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	4	12	1
1960-05-26	ATL @ STL Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	3	9	1
1963-06-16	CHC @ LAD Gameday	9.0	9	3	3	1	9	1
1963-04-28	PHI @ CHC Gameday	8.0	6	1	1	0	9	1
1955-06-02	ATL @ LAD Gameday	7.0	5	3	3	3	9	1

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.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.