Bob James
Montreal Expos 1978–1979; Detroit Tigers 1982; Montreal Expos 1982; Detroit Tigers 1983; Montreal Expos 1983–1984; Chicago White Sox 1985–1987
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 1982 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 1983 | 31 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .286 | .286 | .571 | 56.2 | 60.3 | .266 | 0.7 |
| 1984 | 62 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -30.4 | -17.4 | .133 | 0.7 |
| 1985 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
| 1987 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4.0 | 9.00 | 2.000 | 6.75 | 7.37 | 209.2 | 39.1 | -0.2 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 13.50 | 2.500 | 4.50 | 6.19 | 168.2 | 27.3 | -0.2 |
| 1982 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 17 | 16 | 31 | 4 | 28.7 | 5.34 | 1.674 | 9.73 | 4.03 | 102.4 | 73.3 | -0.2 |
| 1983 | 31 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 21 | 26 | 60 | 5 | 54.0 | 3.50 | 1.259 | 10.00 | 3.28 | 89.4 | 103.5 | 0.7 |
| 1984 | 62 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 39 | 45 | 91 | 6 | 96.0 | 3.66 | 1.427 | 8.53 | 3.24 | 94.1 | 94.2 | 0.7 |
| 1985 | 69 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 26 | 23 | 88 | 5 | 110.0 | 2.13 | 1.027 | 7.20 | 2.41 | 56.6 | 200.3 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 49 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 34 | 23 | 32 | 8 | 58.3 | 5.25 | 1.440 | 4.94 | 4.87 | 113.8 | 81.5 | -0.1 |
| 1987 | 43 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 28 | 17 | 34 | 10 | 54.0 | 4.67 | 1.315 | 5.67 | 5.19 | 114.0 | 97.5 | 0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983-09-27 | WSH @ STL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1984-06-19 | STL @ WSH Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1983-09-01 | LAD @ WSH Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1984-06-24 | WSH @ NYM Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1978-09-07 | NYM @ WSH Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983-09-13 | WSH @ CHC Gameday | 4.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1982-08-31 | LAA @ DET Gameday | 4.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| 1983-09-18 | WSH @ PIT Gameday | 3.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1983-09-09 | NYM @ WSH Gameday | 2.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 1983-07-27 | WSH @ CIN Gameday | 4.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 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.