Bob Kipper
California Angels 1985; Pittsburgh Pirates 1985–1991; Minnesota Twins 1992
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 34.0 | 41.2 | .232 | -0.8 |
| 1986 | 21 | 37 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .030 | .059 | .030 | .089 | -96.1 | -74.9 | .049 | 0.5 |
| 1987 | 26 | 36 | 33 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .242 | .242 | .303 | .545 | 36.8 | 43.4 | .244 | -1.0 |
| 1988 | 50 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .200 | -20.4 | -37.2 | .150 | 0.4 |
| 1989 | 52 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .200 | .111 | .311 | -4.9 | -6.9 | .168 | 1.3 |
| 1990 | 41 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -32.2 | -19.4 | .132 | 1.1 |
| 1991 | 52 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -122.8 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1992 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 22 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 28.0 | 7.07 | 1.357 | 4.18 | 5.10 | 138.5 | 51.5 | -0.8 |
| 1986 | 20 | 19 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 123 | 51 | 34 | 81 | 17 | 114.0 | 4.03 | 1.377 | 6.39 | 4.21 | 110.3 | 94.8 | 0.5 |
| 1987 | 24 | 20 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 117 | 73 | 52 | 83 | 25 | 110.7 | 5.94 | 1.527 | 6.75 | 5.77 | 140.1 | 69.3 | -1.0 |
| 1988 | 50 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 27 | 26 | 39 | 7 | 65.0 | 3.74 | 1.231 | 5.40 | 4.20 | 122.8 | 91.5 | 0.4 |
| 1989 | 52 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 27 | 33 | 58 | 5 | 83.0 | 2.93 | 1.060 | 6.29 | 3.24 | 95.5 | 115.8 | 1.3 |
| 1990 | 41 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 21 | 26 | 35 | 7 | 62.7 | 3.02 | 1.117 | 5.03 | 4.53 | 123.6 | 121.6 | 1.1 |
| 1991 | 52 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 66 | 31 | 22 | 38 | 7 | 60.0 | 4.65 | 1.467 | 5.70 | 4.14 | 114.8 | 77.6 | -0.2 |
| 1992 | 25 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 19 | 14 | 22 | 8 | 38.7 | 4.42 | 1.397 | 5.12 | 5.66 | 140.3 | 91.2 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987-04-11 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1987-04-21 | NYM @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1986-06-19 | PIT @ WSH Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1989-05-29 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1985-09-28 | NYM @ PIT Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987-04-16 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1986-05-09 | HOU @ PIT Gameday | 8.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| 1986-05-31 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 7.0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1987-07-04 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 6.1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1986-06-05 | NYM @ PIT Gameday | 6.0 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 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.