MLB / Players

Bob Groom

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 175 lb

BornSeptember 12, 1884 · Belleville, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 13, 1909

Final gameJuly 20, 1918

Seasons10 (1909–1918)

Washington Senators 1909–1913; St. Louis Terriers 1914–1915; St. Louis Browns 1916–1917; Cleveland Indians 1918

Percentile snapshot

1917 season — qualified pitchers

58.9

22.2

4.4

81.1

33.3

SHO

193

18.9

8.9

33.3

232.7

62.2

ERA

2.94

WHIP

1.238

36.7

K/9

3.17

FIP

2.89

21.1

FIP-

110.6

16.7

ERA+

89.0

23.3

sWAR

0.8

22.2

of 91 qualified 1917 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

93.5

sWAR

13.1

89.7

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1909	46	95	88	1	8	1	0	2	0	38	0	.091	.091	.102	.193	-52.2	-38.1	.093	0.2
1910	34	97	92	4	11	0	0	4	2	28	1	.120	.138	.120	.258	-26.2	-18.2	.129	0.8
1911	37	94	82	8	11	1	0	2	6	23	0	.134	.193	.146	.340	-1.0	-4.1	.177	0.6
1912	43	123	103	11	12	1	0	6	7	34	0	.117	.180	.126	.306	-6.9	-11.7	.163	5.0
1913	37	103	92	7	15	4	2	8	6	24	0	.163	.214	.250	.464	28.9	35.8	.229	1.7
1914	42	100	94	5	15	2	1	4	5	28	0	.160	.202	.202	.404	9.1	15.0	.198	2.4
1915	37	73	66	3	10	2	0	4	4	24	1	.152	.200	.182	.382	5.7	12.5	.191	1.2
1916	41	73	63	5	7	3	0	3	4	20	1	.111	.164	.159	.323	-12.2	-1.4	.166	2.3
1917	38	78	72	4	8	2	0	2	3	27	0	.111	.147	.139	.286	-23.6	-12.1	.146	0.8
1918	14	13	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	5	0	.083	.083	.083	.167	-83.5	-51.4	.081	-2.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1909	44	31	7	26	0	17	1	218	83	105	131	2	260.7	2.87	1.239	4.52	2.74	114.3	83.7	0.2
1910	34	30	12	17	0	22	3	244	79	77	98	8	257.7	2.76	1.246	3.42	2.89	117.7	89.1	0.8
1911	37	32	13	17	2	20	2	280	108	67	135	9	254.7	3.82	1.363	4.77	3.20	97.1	86.2	0.6
1912	43	40	24	13	1	28	2	287	92	94	179	3	316.0	2.62	1.206	5.10	2.88	86.9	126.5	5.0
1913	37	36	16	16	0	17	4	258	95	81	156	8	264.3	3.23	1.282	5.31	2.68	91.4	90.6	1.7
1914	42	34	13	20	1	23	1	281	101	75	167	9	280.7	3.24	1.268	5.36	2.78	86.8	99.0	2.4
1915	37	26	11	11	2	11	4	200	76	73	111	6	209.0	3.27	1.306	4.78	2.88	95.1	92.6	1.2
1916	41	26	13	9	4	8	1	174	62	98	92	1	217.3	2.57	1.252	3.81	2.93	107.0	106.7	2.3
1917	38	28	8	19	3	11	4	193	76	95	82	3	232.7	2.94	1.238	3.17	2.89	110.6	89.0	0.8
1918	14	5	2	2	0	0	0	70	34	18	8	0	43.3	7.06	2.031	1.66	3.11	105.2	41.8	-2.0

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

369

849

764

RBI

251

.1283

OBP

.1696

SLG

.1571

OPS

.3267

Pitching

G (P)

367

288

390th-most career GS

119

455th-most career W

150

167th-most career L

157

209th-most career CG

SHO

218th-most career SHO

2,336

299th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,159

426th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

783

271st-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.105

210th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2789

467th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.46

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	RBI	TB
1913-05-12	MIN @ BAL Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	0	5
1912-07-04	NYY @ MIN Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	2	3
1913-09-23	BAL @ MIN Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	3
1916-05-19	BAL @ BOS Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	3
1913-06-16	CWS @ MIN Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1911-09-30	DET @ MIN Gameday	9.0	7	2	0	1	12
1913-06-03	BAL @ MIN Gameday	9.0	7	2	1	2	12
1913-09-23	BAL @ MIN Gameday	9.0	9	5	3	3	10
1910-09-27	MIN @ CWS Gameday	9.0	7	2	0	0	9
1912-06-02	MIN @ BAL Gameday	9.0	6	3	0	1	9

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.