Bob Grim

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornMarch 8, 1930 · New York, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1954

Final gameMay 24, 1962

Seasons8 (1954–1962)

New York Yankees 1954–1957; Kansas City Athletics 1958; New York Yankees 1958; Kansas City Athletics 1959; Cincinnati Reds 1960; Cleveland Indians 1960; St. Louis Cardinals 1960; Kansas City Athletics 1962

Percentile snapshot

1954 season — qualified pitchers

69.6

8.9

91.1

89.3

23.2

SHO

16.1

175

76.8

71.4

35.7

108

64.3

85.7

199.0

46.4

ERA

3.26

62.5

WHIP

1.307

58.9

K/9

4.88

73.2

FIP

3.21

87.5

FIP-

91.0

67.9

ERA+

108.3

53.6

sWAR

2.4

37.5

of 57 qualified 1954 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

8.6

85.1

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1954	37	79	70	3	10	1	9	2	26	.143	.167	.186	.352	-17.0	-0.5	.166	2.4
1955	26	31	25	2	3	0	1	1	9	.120	.185	.120	.305	-19.7	-14.8	.160	0.5
1956	26	21	16	2	1	0	1	4	9	.063	.250	.063	.313	6.2	-10.9	.198	1.7
1957	46	13	9	1	1	1	3	1	4	.111	.200	.444	.644	67.3	74.5	.284	1.7
1958	37	38	33	2	6	0	2	1	8	.182	.206	.182	.388	-5.1	6.6	.184	1.3
1959	40	41	32	2	3	1	5	2	17	.094	.143	.188	.330	-22.7	-11.1	.154	1.0
1960	44	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.9	-100.0	.000	0.3
1962	12	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.2	-100.0	.000	-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
1954	37	20	20	6	0	8	1	175	72	85	108	9	199.0	3.26	1.307	4.88	3.21	91.0	108.3	2.4
1955	26	11	7	5	4	1	1	81	43	42	63	9	92.3	4.19	1.332	6.14	3.79	99.0	91.4	0.5
1956	26	6	6	1	5	1	0	64	23	31	48	3	74.7	2.77	1.272	5.79	3.07	77.6	142.7	1.7
1957	46	0	12	8	19	0	0	60	21	36	52	5	72.0	2.63	1.333	6.50	3.36	91.6	139.6	1.7
1958	37	14	7	7	0	5	1	130	55	51	65	10	130.0	3.81	1.392	4.50	3.71	97.1	100.9	1.3
1959	40	9	6	10	4	3	1	124	57	57	65	10	125.3	4.09	1.444	4.67	3.90	98.0	97.2	1.0
1960	44	0	3	3	2	0	0	60	25	20	39	4	53.3	4.22	1.500	6.58	3.28	84.2	92.4	0.3
1962	12	0	0	1	3	0	0	14	9	8	3	0	13.0	6.23	1.692	2.08	3.90	93.2	67.1	-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

268

227

189

RBI

.1270

OBP

.1782

SLG

.1746

OPS

.3528

Pitching

G (P)

268

465th-most career SV

SHO

760

SO (P)

443

BB allowed

330

ERA

3.613

WHIP

1.3664

K/9

5.25

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	HR	RBI	TB
1954-06-18	NYY @ CWS Gameday	2	1	2	1	4	5
1959-04-15	ATH @ CWS Gameday	4	1	1	1	4	4
1957-09-05	BOS @ NYY Gameday	1	1	1	1	3	4
1954-08-15	BOS @ NYY Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2
1958-08-29	CLE @ ATH Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1956-06-14	CWS @ NYY Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	1	9	1
1955-06-02	NYY @ ATH Gameday	7.2	8	6	6	2	8	1
1956-06-29	MIN @ NYY Gameday	7.1	2	1	1	1	8	1
1956-06-06	ATH @ NYY Gameday	6.0	10	5	5	1	8	0
1954-05-24	ATH @ NYY Gameday	9.0	3	3	3	6	7	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× Rookie of the Year1× 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.