Bob Cerv
New York Yankees 1951–1956; Kansas City Athletics 1957–1960; New York Yankees 1960; Los Angeles Angels 1961; New York Yankees 1961; Houston Colt .45's 1962; New York Yankees 1962
Percentile snapshot
1959 season — qualified batters
of 70 qualified 1959 batters (min 477 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 12 | 32 | 28 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .313 | .250 | .563 | 61.4 | 57.4 | .282 | -0.1 |
| 1952 | 36 | 96 | 87 | 11 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 22 | 0 | 1 | .241 | .313 | .356 | .669 | 90.5 | 92.9 | .316 | 0.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .143 | .000 | .143 | -54.9 | -57.6 | .108 | -0.1 |
| 1954 | 56 | 112 | 100 | 14 | 26 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 11 | 17 | 0 | 2 | .260 | .330 | .470 | .800 | 120.8 | 124.1 | .363 | 0.5 |
| 1955 | 55 | 96 | 85 | 17 | 29 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 0 | .341 | .411 | .541 | .952 | 162.5 | 159.5 | .435 | 1.0 |
| 1956 | 54 | 135 | 115 | 16 | 35 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 25 | 18 | 13 | 0 | 1 | .304 | .396 | .530 | .926 | 149.9 | 149.5 | .418 | 1.2 |
| 1957 | 124 | 371 | 345 | 35 | 94 | 14 | 2 | 11 | 44 | 20 | 57 | 1 | 1 | .272 | .312 | .420 | .732 | 93.7 | 95.9 | .331 | 0.7 |
| 1958 | 141 | 572 | 515 | 93 | 157 | 20 | 7 | 38 | 104 | 50 | 82 | 3 | 3 | .305 | .371 | .592 | .963 | 157.2 | 157.5 | .417 | 5.2 |
| 1959 | 125 | 513 | 463 | 61 | 132 | 22 | 4 | 20 | 87 | 35 | 87 | 3 | 2 | .285 | .332 | .479 | .812 | 112.8 | 117.4 | .355 | 1.9 |
| 1960 | 110 | 338 | 294 | 46 | 74 | 12 | 2 | 14 | 40 | 40 | 53 | 0 | 0 | .252 | .346 | .449 | .795 | 118.0 | 117.8 | .359 | 1.5 |
| 1961 | 75 | 191 | 175 | 20 | 41 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 26 | 13 | 25 | 1 | 0 | .234 | .289 | .429 | .718 | 89.4 | 94.0 | .320 | 0.1 |
| 1962 | 33 | 53 | 48 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .188 | .264 | .333 | .597 | 64.4 | 62.7 | .276 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959-08-20 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 12 |
| 1958-04-30 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 1958-07-25 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1960-05-15 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1958-04-16 | ATH @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-06-06 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-06-19 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-07-15 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-07-15 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-07-16 | NYY @ DET 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.