MLB / Players

Bob Carpenter

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 3 in · 195 lb
BornDecember 12, 1917 · Chicago, IL, USA
MLB debutSeptember 5, 1940
Final gameAugust 13, 1947
Seasons5 (1940–1947)

New York Giants 1940–1942; New York Giants 1946; Chicago Cubs 1947; New York Giants 1947

Percentile snapshot

1942 season — qualified pitchers

G
28
52.8
GS
25
67.6
W
11
62
L
10
37
SV
0
0
CG
12
63
SHO
2
67.6
H
192
25
ER
65
39.8
BB
51
50.9
SO
53
39.8
HR
13
10.2
IP
185.7
63.9
ERA
3.15
61.1
WHIP
1.309
50
K/9
2.57
16.7
FIP
3.47
57.4
FIP-
104.6
31.5
ERA+
105.1
44.4
sWAR
2.1
58.3

of 109 qualified 1942 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
3.4
75.2

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1940512100100011100.100.250.100.3508.0-0.5.2010.8
19412951451710084500.156.224.178.4028.313.2.2041.1
194228736551200062900.185.209.185.3942.615.7.1922.1
19461213101100001200.100.182.100.282-32.1-19.5.155-0.3
194761101000000001.0001.0001.0002.000478.9442.0.922-0.2

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1940532002029101425233.02.731.3036.823.2984.8142.40.8
1941291911628113856424215131.73.831.3672.874.41119.296.71.1
194228251110012219265515313185.73.151.3092.573.47104.6105.12.1
19461261301137211813739.04.851.4103.005.37155.271.4-0.3
1947610100015871110.36.972.1290.875.67142.257.2-0.2

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

G
80
PA
150
AB
131
R
7
H
22
2B
1
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
15
BB
8
SO
17
SB
0
BA
.1679
OBP
.2214
SLG
.1756
OPS
.3970

Pitching

G (P)
80
GS
54
W
25
L
20
SV
2
CG
23
SHO
4
IP
400
SO (P)
134
BB allowed
132
ERA
3.603
WHIP
1.3586
K/9
3.02

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1941-07-12STL @ SF Gameday402100303
1941-06-20SF @ STL Gameday302000212
1942-05-31PHI @ SF Gameday322000102
1942-07-26CIN @ SF Gameday202000002
1940-09-05ATL @ SF Gameday201000101

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1942-05-07SF @ PIT Gameday10.11222060
1940-09-26PHI @ SF Gameday9.0611460
1942-09-13PIT @ SF Gameday9.0700260
1940-09-16PIT @ SF Gameday4.0211261
1941-05-29ATL @ SF Gameday9.0522450

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.