MLB / Players

Bob Rush

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 205 lb

BornDecember 21, 1925 · Battle Creek, MI, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1948

Final gameAugust 7, 1960

Seasons13 (1948–1960)

Chicago Cubs 1948–1957; Milwaukee Braves 1958–1959; Chicago White Sox 1960; Milwaukee Braves 1960

Percentile snapshot

1957 season — qualified pitchers

18.2

50.9

10.9

5.5

SHO

211

38.2

100

16.4

47.3

103

45.5

69.1

205.3

45.5

ERA

4.38

9.1

WHIP

1.349

30.9

K/9

4.51

38.2

FIP

3.52

63.6

FIP-

90.4

69.1

ERA+

88.7

10.9

sWAR

1.0

16.4

of 56 qualified 1957 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

108.6

68.6

sWAR

32.7

96.9

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
1948	38	41	39	1	5	1	0	0	0	0	9	0	.128	.128	.154	.282	-40.7	-22.9	.128	1.0
1949	35	69	63	4	2	0	0	0	2	1	19	0	.032	.047	.032	.079	-99.5	-78.3	.040	1.0
1950	40	94	90	6	15	2	0	1	5	3	36	1	.167	.194	.222	.416	-3.3	9.0	.190	3.7
1951	37	73	68	5	13	2	0	0	2	1	20	0	.191	.203	.221	.423	-2.1	12.7	.194	2.6
1952	34	99	96	5	28	5	1	0	15	1	35	0	.292	.299	.365	.664	74.7	81.5	.301	6.6
1953	29	60	54	2	6	0	1	0	5	3	23	0	.111	.158	.148	.306	-33.0	-20.7	.146	1.2
1954	33	87	83	6	23	4	1	2	9	3	23	0	.277	.302	.422	.724	80.4	85.2	.320	4.1
1955	33	91	82	6	9	2	0	1	5	6	40	0	.110	.170	.171	.341	-15.9	-9.3	.165	3.5
1956	32	92	82	6	8	1	0	0	2	6	37	0	.098	.159	.110	.269	-33.8	-25.6	.137	3.6
1957	31	75	69	3	14	3	0	0	3	3	26	0	.203	.236	.246	.482	24.5	30.2	.223	1.0
1958	28	52	45	2	9	1	0	0	1	3	14	0	.200	.245	.222	.467	27.9	31.2	.220	1.9
1959	31	33	32	2	6	0	0	0	0	0	15	0	.188	.188	.188	.375	-3.2	5.1	.171	2.4
1960	19	5	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.500	.600	.500	1.100	232.7	204.6	.515	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1948	36	16	5	11	0	4	0	153	58	37	72	8	133.3	3.92	1.425	4.86	3.12	81.2	98.2	1.0
1949	35	27	10	18	4	9	1	197	91	79	80	10	201.0	4.07	1.373	3.58	3.56	89.7	97.4	1.0
1950	39	34	13	20	1	19	1	261	105	93	93	11	254.7	3.71	1.390	3.29	3.45	83.3	111.7	3.7
1951	37	29	11	12	2	12	2	212	90	68	129	16	211.3	3.83	1.325	5.49	3.15	78.0	105.4	2.6
1952	34	32	17	13	0	17	4	205	75	81	157	14	250.3	2.70	1.142	5.64	2.93	77.2	140.9	6.6
1953	29	28	9	14	0	8	1	177	84	66	84	17	166.7	4.54	1.458	4.54	4.21	95.6	97.1	1.2
1954	33	32	13	15	0	11	0	213	99	103	124	12	236.3	3.77	1.337	4.72	3.40	81.7	110.3	4.1
1955	33	33	13	11	0	14	3	204	91	73	130	19	234.0	3.50	1.184	5.00	3.21	78.5	117.0	3.5
1956	32	32	13	10	0	13	1	210	85	59	104	30	239.7	3.19	1.122	3.91	3.76	99.7	118.0	3.6
1957	31	29	6	16	0	5	0	211	100	66	103	16	205.3	4.38	1.349	4.51	3.52	90.4	88.7	1.0
1958	28	20	10	6	0	5	2	142	56	31	84	13	147.3	3.42	1.174	5.13	3.17	87.8	105.4	1.9
1959	31	9	5	6	0	1	1	102	27	23	64	5	101.3	2.40	1.234	5.68	2.71	74.9	151.0	2.4
1960	19	0	2	0	1	0	0	40	16	10	20	6	29.3	4.91	1.705	6.14	4.85	132.5	74.3	0.0

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

420

871

807

140

RBI

298

.1735

OBP

.2038

SLG

.2218

OPS

.4256

Pitching

G (P)

417

321

294th-most career GS

127

394th-most career W

152

158th-most career L

118

336th-most career CG

SHO

354th-most career SHO

2,411

278th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,244

367th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

789

266th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.648

WHIP

1.2926

K/9

4.64

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
1954-08-31	PIT @ CHC Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	1	3	7
1950-08-12	CHC @ PIT Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	3	5
1951-05-11	CHC @ PIT Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	0	1	4
1952-06-18	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	0	0	4
1957-08-13	STL @ CHC Gameday	3	2	2	2	0	0	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1952-06-13	CHC @ ATL Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	4	11	0
1957-08-23	CHC @ SF Gameday	15.1	11	3	3	2	10	0
1951-09-07	CHC @ CIN Gameday	14.0	10	5	3	7	10	1
1952-05-30	CIN @ CHC Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	0	10	0
1952-08-17	PIT @ CHC Gameday	9.0	9	2	2	1	10	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

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.