MLB / Players

Bob Rhoads

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 215 lb

BornOctober 4, 1879 · Wooster, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1902

Final gameAugust 25, 1909

Seasons8 (1902–1909)

Chicago Orphans 1902; Cleveland Naps 1903; St. Louis Cardinals 1903; Cleveland Naps 1904–1909

Percentile snapshot

1908 season — qualified pitchers

56.8

61.7

45.7

SHO

18.5

229

28.4

25.9

30.9

43.2

270.0

70.4

ERA

1.77

86.4

WHIP

1.119

54.3

K/9

2.07

4.9

FIP

2.78

24.7

FIP-

117.5

11.1

ERA+

133.7

85.2

sWAR

5.3

90.1

of 82 qualified 1908 pitchers (min 157 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

100.4

39.8

sWAR

17.3

92.3

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1902	16	47	45	0	10	0	0	0	2	2	15	1	.222	.255	.222	.478	47.4	47.5	.239	0.5
1903	23	69	67	4	9	0	0	1	4	0	19	0	.134	.134	.179	.313	-10.4	-9.5	.146	-1.8
1904	29	93	92	5	18	2	2	0	14	1	29	0	.196	.204	.261	.465	39.5	47.1	.218	1.0
1905	33	102	95	10	21	4	3	1	11	4	32	2	.221	.253	.358	.610	87.4	92.8	.289	2.3
1906	38	129	118	6	19	1	0	0	6	5	36	0	.161	.195	.169	.365	12.0	15.0	.182	6.2
1907	35	100	92	5	17	2	0	0	6	2	23	2	.185	.202	.207	.409	26.3	31.3	.200	3.2
1908	37	101	90	6	20	2	2	0	4	6	33	2	.222	.271	.289	.560	81.3	82.8	.275	5.3
1909	20	48	43	1	7	0	1	0	1	1	15	0	.163	.182	.209	.391	11.7	22.1	.191	0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1902	16	12	4	8	1	12	1	131	42	42	43	1	118.0	3.20	1.466	3.28	3.13	113.2	86.4	0.5
1903	22	18	7	11	0	17	1	209	90	50	73	5	170.0	4.76	1.524	3.86	3.24	102.5	66.1	-1.8
1904	22	19	10	9	0	18	0	175	56	48	72	1	175.3	2.87	1.272	3.70	2.66	103.7	89.4	1.0
1905	28	26	16	9	0	24	4	219	74	55	61	4	235.0	2.83	1.166	2.34	2.99	113.0	93.4	2.3
1906	38	34	22	10	0	31	7	259	63	92	89	5	315.0	1.80	1.114	2.54	3.04	114.3	147.8	6.2
1907	35	31	15	14	1	23	5	258	70	84	76	0	275.0	2.29	1.244	2.49	2.86	114.2	109.3	3.2
1908	37	30	18	12	0	20	1	229	53	73	62	2	270.0	1.77	1.119	2.07	2.78	117.5	133.7	5.3
1909	20	15	5	9	0	9	2	124	43	50	46	1	133.3	2.90	1.305	3.11	2.95	117.3	86.8	0.6

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

231

689

642

121

RBI

202

.1885

OBP

.2142

SLG

.2399

OPS

.4541

Pitching

G (P)

218

185

154

217th-most career CG

SHO

232nd-most career SHO

1,692

SO (P)

522

BB allowed

494

ERA

2.612

59th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2402

294th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

2.78

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	TB
1905-06-19	CLE @ MIN Gameday	5	0	3	1	0	0	0	4
1909-08-19	ATH @ CLE Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	4
1903-04-30	PIT @ STL Gameday	1	1	1	0	0	1	2	4
1905-06-09	CLE @ NYY Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	4
1906-07-14	CLE @ MIN Gameday	5	0	3	0	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1904-08-17	MIN @ CLE Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	4	10
1906-08-15	CLE @ ATH Gameday	12.0	9	3	0	4	9
1903-09-09	BAL @ CLE Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	0	7
1904-09-27	BOS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	1	1	0	4	7
1905-05-07	CLE @ CWS Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	3	7

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.