MLB / Players

Bob Fothergill

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 230 lb

BornAugust 16, 1897 · Massillon, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1922

Final gameJuly 5, 1933

Seasons12 (1922–1933)

Detroit Tigers 1922–1929; Chicago White Sox 1930; Detroit Tigers 1930; Chicago White Sox 1931–1932; Boston Red Sox 1933

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified batters

143

77.5

593

527

75.1

86.4

189

91.7

94.7

75.1

79.3

RBI

114

94.7

71.6

20.1

52.1

1.2

.359

89.9

OBP

.413

85.2

SLG

.516

OPS

.929

85.8

wRC+

136.9

OPS+

137.3

81.7

wOBA

.426

85.8

sWAR

4.0

85.8

of 170 qualified 1927 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

111.9

65.5

OPS+

113.6

69.7

sWAR

13.5

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
1922	42	163	152	20	49	12	4	0	29	8	9	1	5	.322	.356	.454	.810	109.4	111.8	.370	0.6
1923	101	268	241	34	76	18	2	1	49	12	19	5	4	.315	.358	.419	.777	103.3	105.3	.363	0.7
1924	54	179	166	28	50	8	3	0	15	5	13	2	3	.301	.326	.386	.711	78.8	83.1	.332	-0.1
1925	71	223	204	38	72	14	0	2	28	6	3	3	2	.353	.377	.451	.828	108.0	110.1	.382	0.7
1926	110	437	387	63	142	31	7	3	73	33	23	4	12	.367	.421	.506	.927	140.3	139.1	.429	3.2
1927	143	593	527	93	189	38	9	9	114	47	31	9	15	.359	.413	.516	.929	136.9	137.3	.426	4.0
1928	111	384	347	49	110	28	10	3	63	24	19	8	3	.317	.366	.481	.848	116.5	118.0	.385	1.6
1929	115	293	277	42	98	24	9	6	62	11	11	3	1	.354	.378	.570	.949	136.1	139.1	.420	2.0
1930	107	296	278	24	77	18	3	2	38	10	18	1	1	.277	.307	.385	.692	71.7	73.8	.311	-0.4
1931	108	333	312	25	88	9	4	3	56	17	17	2	2	.282	.323	.365	.689	83.0	84.1	.319	0.0
1932	116	376	346	36	102	24	1	7	50	27	10	4	4	.295	.348	.431	.778	103.4	105.1	.354	1.0
1933	28	34	32	1	11	1	0	0	5	2	4	0	0	.344	.382	.375	.757	100.5	99.5	.356	0.1

Career totals

1,106

3,579

3,269

453

1,064

225

RBI

582

202

177

.3255

49th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3684

317th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4592

402nd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8276

299th-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	TB
1926-09-26	BOS @ DET Gameday	5	4	5	1	1	1	4	11
1931-07-28	CWS @ NYY Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	1	3	11
1928-05-08	DET @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	1	2	0	4	9
1929-06-14	DET @ NYY Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	2	9
1927-06-09	DET @ BOS Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	1	2	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1922-04-12	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-13	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-15	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-16	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-18	DET @ CWS 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.