Bob Gillespie
Detroit Tigers 1944; Chicago White Sox 1947–1948; Boston Red Sox 1950
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -135.4 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 1947 | 25 | 36 | 33 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .061 | .139 | .061 | .199 | -53.8 | -42.6 | .116 | -0.7 |
| 1948 | 25 | 18 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .059 | .000 | .059 | -98.1 | -83.4 | .045 | -0.2 |
| 1950 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 11.0 | 6.55 | 1.727 | 3.27 | 5.09 | 143.5 | 54.2 | -0.3 |
| 1947 | 25 | 17 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 133 | 62 | 53 | 36 | 4 | 118.0 | 4.73 | 1.576 | 2.75 | 3.63 | 100.7 | 76.2 | -0.7 |
| 1948 | 25 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 81 | 41 | 33 | 19 | 3 | 72.0 | 5.13 | 1.583 | 2.38 | 4.18 | 99.5 | 81.9 | -0.2 |
| 1950 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1.3 | 20.25 | 4.500 | 0.00 | 21.46 | 433.2 | 24.5 | -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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-05-27 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1947-06-08 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1948-05-30 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1944-04-18 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-04-19 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-05-19 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1947-07-17 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 7.2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1947-04-25 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 7.0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 1947-07-11 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 1947-09-22 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 8.0 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 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.