Bob Osborn
Chicago Cubs 1925–1927; Chicago Cubs 1929–1930; Pittsburgh Pirates 1931
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 1926 | 31 | 45 | 41 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .146 | .146 | .171 | .317 | -28.3 | -14.9 | .145 | 1.4 |
| 1927 | 24 | 40 | 39 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .205 | .205 | .256 | .462 | 14.5 | 24.0 | .211 | 0.6 |
| 1929 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 18.4 | 24.8 | .229 | 0.2 |
| 1930 | 35 | 45 | 42 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .095 | .095 | .095 | .190 | -63.9 | -53.8 | .086 | 0.9 |
| 1931 | 27 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .222 | .389 | -10.9 | 4.1 | .175 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 0.00 | 3.000 | 0.00 | 3.11 | 72.7 | — | 0.1 |
| 1926 | 31 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 157 | 55 | 58 | 43 | 3 | 136.3 | 3.63 | 1.577 | 2.84 | 3.84 | 100.5 | 105.2 | 1.4 |
| 1927 | 24 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 125 | 50 | 48 | 45 | 2 | 107.7 | 4.18 | 1.607 | 3.76 | 3.76 | 97.7 | 92.1 | 0.6 |
| 1929 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9.0 | 3.00 | 1.111 | 1.00 | 3.75 | 80.2 | 156.0 | 0.2 |
| 1930 | 35 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 147 | 70 | 53 | 42 | 9 | 126.7 | 4.97 | 1.579 | 2.98 | 5.09 | 102.1 | 100.2 | 0.9 |
| 1931 | 27 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 36 | 20 | 9 | 3 | 64.7 | 5.01 | 1.624 | 1.25 | 4.27 | 111.5 | 76.5 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927-06-09 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1927-05-17 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1926-05-28 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1931-07-24 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1927-07-14 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926-06-27 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 9.2 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 1 |
| 1927-06-09 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 7.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1930-08-28 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1927-07-19 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 7.2 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| 1927-05-11 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 7.1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 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.