Bob Porterfield
New York Yankees 1948–1951; Washington Senators 1951–1955; Boston Red Sox 1956–1958; Pittsburgh Pirates 1958; Chicago Cubs 1959; Pittsburgh Pirates 1959
Percentile snapshot
1955 season — qualified pitchers
of 53 qualified 1955 pitchers (min 154 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 16 | 32 | 24 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .280 | .250 | .530 | 37.8 | 43.5 | .257 | 0.5 |
| 1949 | 12 | 20 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .053 | .100 | .105 | .205 | -63.6 | -45.2 | .105 | 0.5 |
| 1950 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .500 | .333 | .833 | 140.2 | 121.4 | .424 | -0.6 |
| 1951 | 21 | 49 | 46 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .130 | .184 | .130 | .314 | -21.3 | -13.4 | .161 | 1.9 |
| 1952 | 31 | 84 | 79 | 5 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .190 | .210 | .228 | .438 | 10.4 | 23.9 | .206 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 37 | 108 | 98 | 8 | 25 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 6 | 20 | 1 | 0 | .255 | .298 | .418 | .716 | 88.7 | 94.3 | .325 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 32 | 99 | 88 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .102 | .149 | .136 | .285 | -35.5 | -19.5 | .142 | 2.7 |
| 1955 | 30 | 70 | 63 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .190 | .185 | .270 | .454 | 5.4 | 21.7 | .203 | 0.8 |
| 1956 | 25 | 47 | 43 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .326 | .348 | .395 | .743 | 84.7 | 87.7 | .341 | 0.8 |
| 1957 | 28 | 32 | 29 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .172 | .219 | .207 | .426 | 3.1 | 14.4 | .203 | 0.9 |
| 1958 | 39 | 21 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .050 | .095 | .200 | .295 | -38.2 | -23.2 | .132 | 1.4 |
| 1959 | 40 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.0 | -100.0 | .000 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 85 | 39 | 34 | 30 | 5 | 78.0 | 4.50 | 1.526 | 3.46 | 4.12 | 98.6 | 92.8 | 0.5 |
| 1949 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 53 | 26 | 29 | 25 | 3 | 57.7 | 4.06 | 1.422 | 3.90 | 3.86 | 93.7 | 101.6 | 0.5 |
| 1950 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 19 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 19.7 | 8.69 | 1.831 | 4.12 | 4.34 | 99.0 | 50.4 | -0.6 |
| 1951 | 21 | 19 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 114 | 53 | 57 | 55 | 8 | 136.3 | 3.50 | 1.254 | 3.63 | 3.79 | 93.3 | 116.0 | 1.9 |
| 1952 | 31 | 29 | 13 | 14 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 222 | 70 | 85 | 80 | 7 | 231.3 | 2.72 | 1.327 | 3.11 | 3.22 | 90.8 | 130.3 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 34 | 32 | 22 | 10 | 0 | 24 | 9 | 243 | 95 | 73 | 77 | 19 | 255.0 | 3.35 | 1.239 | 2.72 | 3.80 | 97.8 | 116.0 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 32 | 31 | 13 | 15 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 249 | 90 | 77 | 82 | 14 | 244.0 | 3.32 | 1.336 | 3.02 | 3.44 | 96.3 | 107.5 | 2.7 |
| 1955 | 30 | 27 | 10 | 17 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 197 | 88 | 54 | 74 | 14 | 178.0 | 4.45 | 1.410 | 3.74 | 3.56 | 90.3 | 88.7 | 0.8 |
| 1956 | 25 | 18 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 127 | 72 | 64 | 53 | 21 | 126.0 | 5.14 | 1.516 | 3.79 | 5.38 | 118.0 | 88.6 | 0.8 |
| 1957 | 28 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 107 | 46 | 30 | 28 | 8 | 102.3 | 4.05 | 1.339 | 2.46 | 3.78 | 94.7 | 98.6 | 0.9 |
| 1958 | 39 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 81 | 34 | 19 | 40 | 8 | 91.7 | 3.34 | 1.091 | 3.93 | 3.42 | 88.9 | 115.2 | 1.4 |
| 1959 | 40 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 28 | 22 | 19 | 4 | 47.7 | 5.29 | 1.825 | 3.59 | 4.30 | 110.8 | 73.3 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-05-10 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1953-06-30 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1953-05-05 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1956-07-01 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1953-08-05 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-06-18 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 13.0 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 0 |
| 1952-07-30 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
| 1949-08-07 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
| 1955-04-21 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1955-06-12 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 8.0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.