MLB / Players

Bob Friend

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornNovember 24, 1930 · Lafayette, IN, USA

MLB debutApril 28, 1951

Final gameSeptember 24, 1966

Seasons16 (1951–1966)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1951–1965; New York Yankees 1966; New York Mets 1966

Percentile snapshot

1965 season — qualified pitchers

18.1

61.1

6.9

31.9

47.2

SHO

45.8

221

26.4

54.2

83.3

61.1

222.0

59.7

ERA

3.24

51.4

WHIP

1.207

48.6

K/9

3.00

FIP

3.71

20.8

FIP-

105.0

19.4

ERA+

108.8

56.9

sWAR

2.4

51.4

of 73 qualified 1965 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

106.2

62.2

sWAR

41.3

98.1

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1951	34	47	44	1	4	2	0	0	2	2	19	.091	.130	.136	.267	-50.1	-30.1	.128	1.1
1952	35	61	52	2	3	0	0	0	0	2	20	.058	.093	.058	.150	-83.5	-58.6	.079	0.9
1953	32	56	52	4	7	1	0	0	1	1	16	.135	.151	.154	.305	-37.0	-21.2	.140	0.5
1954	35	57	51	6	14	1	1	1	7	5	8	.275	.339	.392	.731	90.0	89.8	.332	0.4
1955	44	70	61	3	10	1	0	0	4	3	15	.164	.203	.180	.383	-2.6	3.3	.182	4.5
1956	49	109	97	7	16	2	0	1	8	1	19	.165	.173	.216	.390	-6.1	5.3	.175	3.9
1957	40	100	87	5	16	2	0	0	4	6	22	.184	.234	.207	.441	18.8	22.3	.209	4.0
1958	38	109	94	3	10	2	0	0	6	4	28	.106	.141	.128	.269	-40.1	-26.7	.129	2.8
1959	35	87	73	4	12	2	0	0	7	2	25	.164	.187	.192	.378	-6.2	2.5	.176	1.9
1960	38	105	88	5	6	1	0	0	3	6	31	.068	.128	.080	.207	-50.6	-41.3	.110	4.6
1961	41	89	79	6	11	0	1	0	7	1	36	.139	.150	.165	.315	-25.9	-15.9	.144	2.4
1962	39	99	91	3	11	2	0	0	5	0	31	.121	.121	.143	.264	-43.1	-29.0	.119	4.8
1963	39	97	86	2	9	0	0	0	2	1	31	.105	.115	.105	.220	-54.7	-36.0	.103	5.5
1964	35	85	71	2	5	0	0	0	2	3	26	.070	.108	.070	.179	-59.8	-48.1	.092	2.5
1965	34	78	71	2	3	0	0	0	1	1	26	.042	.056	.042	.098	-91.5	-71.9	.049	2.4
1966	34	48	40	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	22	.025	.025	.025	.050	-109.7	-86.0	.023	-0.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1951	34	22	6	10	0	3	1	173	71	68	41	12	149.7	4.27	1.610	2.47	4.24	101.4	97.9	1.1
1952	35	23	7	17	0	6	1	186	86	84	75	15	185.0	4.18	1.459	3.65	4.07	103.4	94.1	0.9
1953	32	24	8	11	0	8	0	193	93	57	66	18	170.7	4.90	1.465	3.48	4.27	97.3	89.4	0.5
1954	35	20	7	12	2	4	2	204	96	58	73	16	170.3	5.07	1.538	3.86	3.82	92.8	81.2	0.4
1955	44	20	14	9	2	9	2	178	63	52	98	18	200.3	2.83	1.148	4.40	3.31	81.9	142.6	4.5
1956	49	42	17	17	3	19	4	310	121	85	166	25	314.3	3.46	1.257	4.75	3.04	82.0	107.0	3.9
1957	40	38	14	18	0	17	3	273	104	68	143	28	277.0	3.38	1.231	4.65	3.54	94.3	111.1	4.0
1958	38	38	22	14	0	16	1	299	112	61	135	25	274.0	3.68	1.314	4.43	3.42	89.1	104.3	2.8
1959	35	35	8	19	0	7	2	267	105	52	104	19	234.7	4.03	1.359	3.99	3.54	91.6	96.0	1.9
1960	38	37	18	12	1	16	4	266	92	45	183	18	275.7	3.00	1.128	5.97	2.66	71.1	124.7	4.6
1961	41	35	14	19	1	10	1	271	101	45	108	16	236.0	3.85	1.339	4.12	3.24	81.3	103.6	2.4
1962	39	36	18	14	1	13	5	280	89	53	144	23	261.7	3.06	1.273	4.95	3.39	86.7	127.8	4.8
1963	39	38	17	16	0	12	4	236	70	44	144	13	268.7	2.34	1.042	4.82	2.60	79.3	139.9	5.5
1964	35	35	13	18	0	13	3	253	89	50	128	10	240.3	3.33	1.261	4.79	2.90	82.7	105.3	2.5
1965	34	34	8	12	0	8	2	221	80	47	74	17	222.0	3.24	1.207	3.00	3.71	105.0	108.8	2.4
1966	34	20	6	12	1	2	1	162	66	25	52	13	130.7	4.55	1.431	3.58	3.69	104.7	77.0	-0.9

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

602

1,297

1,137

138

RBI

375

.1214

OBP

.1495

SLG

.1442

OPS

.2937

Pitching

G (P)

602

241st-most career G (P)

497

51st-most career GS

197

125th-most career W

230

20th-most career L

163

193rd-most career CG

SHO

63rd-most career SHO

3,611

61st-most career IP

SO (P)

1,734

144th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

894

166th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.584

WHIP

1.2922

K/9

4.32

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	HR	RBI	TB
1956-07-13	PIT @ CHC Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2	5
1954-09-25	PIT @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4
1957-09-29	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	2	3
1959-05-24	CIN @ PIT Gameday	3	0	3	0	0	0	3
1955-09-13	PIT @ CIN Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1959-08-20	STL @ PIT Gameday	9.0	9	1	1	1	11	0
1960-04-28	PIT @ PHI Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	11	0
1958-07-23	LAD @ PIT Gameday	8.2	8	3	3	1	10	0
1959-06-07	CHC @ PIT Gameday	8.0	4	1	1	2	10	0
1963-06-05	CIN @ PIT Gameday	8.0	7	3	3	0	10	2

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

3× 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.