Bob Locker

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 200 lb

BornMarch 15, 1938 · George, IA, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1965

Final gameJune 20, 1975

Seasons10 (1965–1975)

Chicago White Sox 1965–1969; Seattle Pilots 1969; Milwaukee Brewers 1970; Oakland Athletics 1970–1972; Chicago Cubs 1973; Chicago Cubs 1975

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

14.9

90.9

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	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1965	51	14	14	0	0	0	13	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.0	-100.0	.000	0.8
1966	56	18	16	3	4	2	7	0	.250	.333	.250	.583	85.0	77.8	.284	1.9
1967	77	11	10	0	0	0	6	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.5	-100.0	.000	2.7
1968	70	9	8	0	0	0	5	0	.000	.111	.000	.111	-75.8	-64.0	.083	1.7
1969	68	14	13	1	1	1	9	0	.077	.143	.077	.220	-46.8	-36.7	.120	1.6
1970	66	7	7	0	1	0	4	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	-35.6	-19.1	.132	1.4
1971	47	7	6	1	0	1	4	0	.000	.143	.000	.143	-54.5	-55.5	.108	1.1
1972	56	9	6	0	0	3	4	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	57.2	9.0	.252	1.1
1973	63	16	15	0	1	0	9	1	.067	.067	.067	.133	-90.0	-63.9	.062	2.6
1975	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1965	51	5	2	2	71	32	30	69	6	91.3	3.15	1.106	6.80	2.79	86.8	102.1	0.8
1966	56	9	8	12	73	26	23	70	2	95.0	2.46	1.011	6.63	2.12	66.5	129.3	1.9
1967	77	7	5	20	102	29	23	80	5	124.7	2.09	1.003	5.78	2.45	79.6	147.1	2.7
1968	70	5	4	10	78	23	27	62	4	90.3	2.29	1.162	6.18	2.36	78.5	131.0	1.7
1969	68	5	6	10	95	35	32	61	9	100.3	3.14	1.266	5.47	3.36	90.9	117.0	1.6
1970	66	3	4	7	86	30	29	52	2	88.0	3.07	1.307	5.32	2.74	75.1	118.6	1.4
1971	47	7	2	6	68	23	19	46	2	72.3	2.86	1.203	5.72	2.28	68.1	116.8	1.1
1972	56	6	1	10	69	23	16	47	1	78.0	2.65	1.090	5.42	1.92	66.6	108.9	1.1
1973	63	10	6	18	96	30	42	76	6	106.3	2.54	1.298	6.43	3.15	81.0	153.2	2.6
1975	22	0	1	0	38	18	16	14	3	32.7	4.96	1.653	3.86	4.61	120.7	77.0	-0.1

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

576

105

RBI

.0737

OBP

.1456

SLG

.0737

OPS

.2193

Pitching

G (P)

576

280th-most career G (P)

186th-most career SV

SHO

879

SO (P)

577

BB allowed

257

ERA

2.754

WHIP

1.1752

K/9

5.91

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	TB
1966-05-21	CLE @ CWS Gameday	1	0	1	1
1966-07-03	BOS @ CWS Gameday	1	1	1	1
1966-08-03	CWS @ DET Gameday	1	0	1	1
1966-08-07	CWS @ LAA Gameday	1	1	1	1
1969-07-26	BOS @ MIL Gameday	1	1	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1966-08-03	CWS @ DET Gameday	3.0	1	0	0	0	5
1967-07-25	CLE @ CWS Gameday	3.0	0	0	0	0	5
1965-04-23	CWS @ TEX Gameday	4.0	2	1	1	2	4
1965-05-22	CWS @ LAA Gameday	4.0	1	0	0	2	4
1966-04-20	CWS @ LAA Gameday	4.0	4	0	0	0	4

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.