Bob Hale
Baltimore Orioles 1955–1959; Cleveland Indians 1960–1961; New York Yankees 1961
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 67 | 190 | 182 | 13 | 65 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 5 | 19 | 0 | 2 | .357 | .376 | .407 | .782 | 117.9 | 117.2 | .364 | 0.7 |
| 1956 | 85 | 223 | 207 | 18 | 49 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 2 | .237 | .274 | .309 | .583 | 55.3 | 59.5 | .271 | -0.9 |
| 1957 | 42 | 49 | 44 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .265 | .250 | .515 | 31.3 | 46.7 | .228 | -0.3 |
| 1958 | 19 | 22 | 20 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .350 | .409 | .450 | .859 | 150.1 | 144.2 | .394 | 0.2 |
| 1959 | 40 | 56 | 54 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .185 | .214 | .241 | .455 | 15.4 | 27.3 | .201 | -0.5 |
| 1960 | 70 | 77 | 70 | 2 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .300 | .312 | .400 | .712 | 83.3 | 94.0 | .309 | 0.1 |
| 1961 | 53 | 53 | 49 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .163 | .189 | .224 | .413 | 2.0 | 11.1 | .187 | -0.5 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956-07-17 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1955-07-14 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1955-07-09 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1958-09-28 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1956-07-21 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
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.