MLB / Players

Bob Klinger

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornJune 4, 1908 · Allenton, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1938

Final gameSeptember 23, 1947

Seasons8 (1938–1947)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1938–1943; Boston Red Sox 1946–1947

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified pitchers

63.7

55.9

56.9

74.5

SHO

71.6

185

39.2

47.1

53.9

42.2

195.0

60.8

ERA

2.72

76.5

WHIP

1.246

60.8

K/9

3.00

30.4

FIP

3.10

70.6

FIP-

89.1

72.5

ERA+

127.7

73.5

sWAR

4.1

81.4

of 103 qualified 1943 pitchers (min 157 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

100.2

39.4

sWAR

11.4

88.3

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1938	28	63	60	5	10	0	3	2	13	.167	.194	.167	.360	-11.0	-0.2	.173	2.8
1939	37	90	84	9	17	0	6	5	12	.202	.247	.202	.450	16.6	22.6	.219	1.0
1940	39	44	42	3	6	0	0	1	2	.143	.163	.143	.306	-28.2	-15.0	.146	-1.3
1941	35	35	32	1	8	2	3	2	4	.250	.294	.313	.607	67.2	70.9	.288	0.9
1942	37	50	40	3	8	1	3	5	4	.200	.289	.225	.514	50.0	49.8	.261	1.9
1943	33	74	65	5	16	2	4	5	2	.246	.300	.277	.577	60.7	64.4	.283	4.1
1946	28	19	16	1	5	0	2	0	2	.313	.313	.313	.625	62.2	70.9	.291	1.6
1947	28	11	9	1	1	0	0	0	2	.111	.111	.111	.222	-69.7	-39.7	.104	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1938	28	21	12	5	1	10	1	152	53	42	58	7	159.3	2.99	1.218	3.28	3.48	91.8	126.7	2.8
1939	37	33	14	17	0	10	2	251	109	81	64	11	225.0	4.36	1.476	2.56	4.00	103.0	88.9	1.0
1940	39	22	8	13	3	3	0	196	85	53	48	5	142.0	5.39	1.754	3.04	3.75	97.7	71.3	-1.3
1941	35	9	9	4	4	3	0	127	51	30	36	5	116.7	3.93	1.346	2.78	3.30	90.8	92.4	0.9
1942	37	19	8	11	1	8	1	151	55	45	58	6	152.7	3.24	1.284	3.42	2.98	88.0	104.5	1.9
1943	33	25	11	8	0	14	3	185	59	58	65	6	195.0	2.72	1.246	3.00	3.10	89.1	127.7	4.1
1946	28	1	3	2	9	0	0	49	15	25	16	1	57.0	2.37	1.298	2.53	3.48	94.9	155.0	1.6
1947	28	0	1	1	5	0	0	42	18	24	12	5	42.0	3.86	1.571	2.57	5.19	132.9	101.2	0.4

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

265

386

348

RBI

.2040

OBP

.2473

SLG

.2184

OPS

.4657

Pitching

G (P)

265

130

SHO

1,090

SO (P)

357

BB allowed

358

ERA

3.675

WHIP

1.3867

K/9

2.95

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	RBI	BB	TB
1939-09-17	PHI @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	0	3
1943-09-26	SF @ PIT Gameday	3	0	3	0	0	0	3
1943-05-31	ATL @ PIT Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	1	3
1943-08-14	PIT @ PHI Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	0	3
1943-06-19	CIN @ PIT Gameday	3	0	2	0	2	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1938-06-16	PIT @ SF Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	2	8
1942-05-10	PIT @ CHC Gameday	9.0	5	2	1	8	7
1938-09-28	PIT @ CHC Gameday	7.0	9	4	3	2	6
1938-05-18	PIT @ ATL Gameday	12.1	5	1	1	4	5
1943-06-13	PIT @ STL Gameday	12.0	16	4	4	4	5

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.