Bob Elliott

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornNovember 26, 1916 · San Francisco, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1939

Final gameSeptember 16, 1953

Seasons15 (1939–1953)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1939–1946; Boston Braves 1947–1951; New York Giants 1952; Chicago White Sox 1953; St. Louis Browns 1953

Percentile snapshot

1951 season — qualified batters

136

30.9

547

25.9

480

25.9

40.7

137

34.6

71.6

8.6

60.5

RBI

53.1

27.2

18.5

96.3

.285

60.5

OBP

.371

SLG

.448

66.7

OPS

.819

69.1

wRC+

127.2

75.3

OPS+

126.3

75.3

wOBA

.372

65.4

sWAR

3.9

70.4

of 82 qualified 1951 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

126.8

87.6

OPS+

124.7

85.3

sWAR

53.4

99.1

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1939	32	140	129	18	43	10	3	3	19	9	4	0	0	.333	.377	.527	.904	141.2	141.7	.406	1.2
1940	148	611	551	88	161	34	11	5	64	45	28	13	0	.292	.348	.421	.769	111.1	111.3	.353	2.2
1941	141	599	527	74	144	24	10	3	76	64	52	6	0	.273	.353	.374	.727	106.6	104.8	.346	1.7
1942	143	621	560	75	166	26	7	9	89	52	35	2	0	.296	.358	.416	.774	125.0	123.9	.366	4.1
1943	156	643	581	82	183	30	12	7	101	56	24	4	0	.315	.376	.444	.820	135.3	132.7	.388	5.1
1944	143	617	538	85	160	28	16	10	108	75	42	9	0	.297	.383	.465	.848	136.5	133.9	.394	5.0
1945	144	608	541	80	157	36	6	8	108	64	38	5	0	.290	.366	.423	.790	115.9	115.3	.373	3.0
1946	140	559	486	50	128	25	3	5	68	64	44	6	0	.263	.351	.358	.709	100.6	98.3	.343	1.4
1947	150	645	555	93	176	35	5	22	113	87	60	3	0	.317	.410	.517	.927	149.7	148.7	.420	6.4
1948	151	675	540	99	153	24	5	23	100	131	57	6	0	.283	.423	.474	.897	150.6	145.6	.415	6.7
1949	139	578	482	77	135	29	5	17	76	90	38	0	0	.280	.395	.467	.862	139.4	137.3	.395	4.9
1950	142	602	531	94	162	28	5	24	107	68	67	2	0	.305	.386	.512	.898	140.6	141.0	.399	5.3
1951	136	547	480	73	137	29	2	15	70	65	56	2	0	.285	.371	.448	.819	127.2	126.3	.372	3.9
1952	98	313	272	33	62	6	2	10	35	36	20	1	0	.228	.323	.375	.698	93.2	92.7	.325	0.5
1953	115	432	368	43	94	18	2	9	61	61	39	1	2	.255	.363	.389	.751	105.5	102.4	.355	1.9

Career totals

1,978

276th-most career G

8,190

260th-most career PA

7,141

282nd-most career AB

1,064

299th-most career R

2,061

263rd-most career H

382

246th-most career 2B

194th-most career 3B

170

500th-most career HR

RBI

1,195

161st-most career RBI

967

139th-most career BB

604

.2886

448th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3747

238th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4399

OPS

.8146

391st-highest career OPS

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
1949-09-24	ATL @ SF Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	5	0	12
1948-07-03	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	4	3	0	1	2	5	1	11
1945-07-15	LAD @ PIT Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	6	0	10
1939-09-07	CIN @ PIT Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	1	2	1	9
1947-09-13	ATL @ PIT Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	4	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1939-04-17	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-18	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-22	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-23	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-24	PIT @ CHC 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

1× Most Valuable Player7× 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.