MLB / Players

Bob Harmon

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 187 lb

BornOctober 15, 1887 · Liberal, MO, USA

MLB debutJune 23, 1909

Final gameJune 28, 1918

Seasons9 (1909–1918)

St. Louis Cardinals 1909–1913; Pittsburgh Pirates 1914–1916; Pittsburgh Pirates 1918

Percentile snapshot

1916 season — qualified pitchers

33.3

21.1

27.8

42.2

27.8

SHO

175

51.1

62.2

76.7

24.4

25.6

172.7

35.6

ERA

2.81

35.6

WHIP

1.239

43.3

K/9

3.23

28.9

FIP

2.58

66.7

FIP-

96.8

54.4

ERA+

94.8

26.7

sWAR

1.0

23.3

of 91 qualified 1916 pitchers (min 157 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

89.6

5.9

sWAR

12.0

88.9

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	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1909	21	61	51	3	13	1	0	0	1	6	17	0	.255	.333	.275	.608	95.0	90.9	.309	-0.4
1910	43	88	76	11	14	4	1	0	6	8	23	2	.184	.262	.263	.525	52.7	53.9	.264	-1.7
1911	51	132	111	7	17	4	1	0	3	11	48	2	.153	.236	.207	.443	26.6	24.8	.226	4.4
1912	46	103	99	7	23	1	1	0	7	1	31	2	.232	.248	.263	.510	34.2	39.6	.243	1.1
1913	46	102	92	7	24	1	2	0	3	6	22	2	.261	.313	.315	.628	79.2	79.8	.302	0.8
1914	44	96	86	6	12	0	0	1	6	5	22	0	.140	.187	.174	.361	6.1	10.2	.181	2.6
1915	42	104	95	7	14	4	2	0	6	6	32	1	.147	.198	.232	.430	24.3	31.1	.209	3.3
1916	35	57	55	4	6	1	0	0	1	2	9	0	.109	.140	.127	.268	-35.6	-18.5	.133	1.0
1918	18	30	27	1	4	0	0	0	1	2	4	0	.148	.207	.148	.355	1.7	7.6	.184	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
1909	21	17	6	11	0	10	0	155	65	65	48	6	159.0	3.68	1.384	2.72	3.34	131.9	68.7	-0.4
1910	43	33	13	15	2	15	0	227	117	133	87	1	236.0	4.46	1.525	3.32	3.48	116.1	67.2	-1.7
1911	51	41	23	16	4	28	2	290	121	181	144	10	348.0	3.13	1.353	3.72	3.79	112.4	107.8	4.4
1912	43	34	18	18	0	15	3	284	117	116	73	4	268.0	3.93	1.493	2.45	3.73	109.8	86.4	1.1
1913	42	27	8	21	2	16	1	291	119	99	66	6	273.3	3.92	1.427	2.17	3.58	112.1	81.4	0.8
1914	37	30	13	17	3	19	2	226	69	55	61	3	245.0	2.53	1.147	2.24	2.68	100.9	104.7	2.6
1915	37	32	16	17	1	25	5	242	75	62	86	6	269.7	2.50	1.127	2.87	2.73	101.5	107.5	3.3
1916	31	17	8	11	0	10	2	175	54	39	62	4	172.7	2.81	1.239	3.23	2.58	96.8	94.8	1.0
1918	16	9	2	7	0	5	0	76	24	12	7	3	82.3	2.62	1.069	0.77	3.04	107.6	107.7	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

346

773

692

127

RBI

208

.1835

OBP

.2385

SLG

.2312

OPS

.4697

Pitching

G (P)

321

240

107

133

257th-most career L

143

244th-most career CG

SHO

396th-most career SHO

2,054

424th-most career IP

SO (P)

634

BB allowed

762

296th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.334

333rd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3281

K/9

2.78

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	TB
1911-06-08	ATL @ STL Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	0	0	4
1914-07-05	PIT @ CHC Gameday	3	1	1	0	0	1	3	4
1909-09-24	LAD @ STL Gameday	5	0	3	0	0	0	0	3
1913-06-07	SF @ STL Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	0	1	3
1913-08-02	ATL @ STL Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1909-09-28	ATL @ STL Gameday	9.0	7	3	0	4	10
1911-07-24	PHI @ STL Gameday	9.0	6	2	0	1	9
1911-08-08	LAD @ STL Gameday	9.0	4	2	0	3	8
1915-09-11	PHI @ PIT Gameday	9.0	12	3	3	4	8
1916-04-21	STL @ PIT Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	0	8

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.