Bob Heffner
Boston Red Sox 1963–1965; Cleveland Indians 1966; California Angels 1968
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 21 | 46 | 43 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .116 | .136 | .186 | .322 | -28.8 | -12.1 | .146 | 0.4 |
| 1964 | 55 | 46 | 44 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .159 | .178 | .250 | .428 | -0.6 | 14.4 | .192 | 1.1 |
| 1965 | 27 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -136.2 | -100.0 | .000 | -1.7 |
| 1966 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .500 | 138.5 | 59.1 | .367 | 0.1 |
| 1968 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | — | 445.5 | — | .747 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 20 | 19 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 131 | 59 | 36 | 77 | 15 | 124.7 | 4.26 | 1.340 | 5.56 | 3.70 | 98.2 | 88.5 | 0.4 |
| 1964 | 55 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 152 | 72 | 44 | 112 | 20 | 158.7 | 4.08 | 1.235 | 6.35 | 3.58 | 92.9 | 94.2 | 1.1 |
| 1965 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 39 | 18 | 42 | 9 | 49.0 | 7.16 | 1.571 | 7.71 | 4.24 | 114.1 | 51.8 | -1.7 |
| 1966 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 13.0 | 3.46 | 1.154 | 4.85 | 3.05 | 89.2 | 98.8 | 0.1 |
| 1968 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 8.0 | 2.25 | 1.500 | 3.38 | 3.72 | 128.3 | 129.0 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964-05-12 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1963-08-25 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1964-10-04 | TEX @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1963-06-19 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1963-06-24 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963-08-25 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 11.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 1 |
| 1963-06-24 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 6.1 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1963-09-22 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 7.0 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 3 |
| 1963-06-19 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 |
| 1964-05-12 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 6.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
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.