Bob Skinner

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 190 lb

BornOctober 3, 1931 · La Jolla, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 13, 1954

Final gameSeptember 24, 1966

Seasons12 (1954–1966)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1954; Pittsburgh Pirates 1956–1962; Cincinnati Reds 1963; Pittsburgh Pirates 1963; Cincinnati Reds 1964; St. Louis Cardinals 1964–1966

Percentile snapshot

1962 season — qualified batters

144

26.2

597

510

28.2

61.2

154

47.6

77.7

75.7

63.1

RBI

55.3

83.5

20.4

72.8

39.8

.302

81.6

OBP

.395

94.2

SLG

.504

85.4

OPS

.899

90.3

wRC+

143.2

95.1

OPS+

141.0

94.2

wOBA

.402

94.2

sWAR

4.5

87.4

of 104 qualified 1962 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

109.9

61.2

OPS+

108.9

60.1

sWAR

15.8

91.5

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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
1954	132	530	470	67	117	15	9	8	46	47	59	4	0	.249	.316	.370	.686	76.1	77.9	.312	-0.8
1956	113	262	233	29	47	8	3	5	29	26	50	1	1	.202	.282	.326	.609	65.4	65.0	.278	-0.7
1957	126	431	387	58	118	12	6	13	45	38	50	10	4	.305	.370	.468	.838	129.1	127.7	.370	2.4
1958	144	596	529	93	170	33	9	13	70	58	55	12	4	.321	.387	.491	.879	137.0	134.8	.387	4.0
1959	143	617	547	78	153	18	4	13	61	67	65	10	7	.280	.357	.399	.756	105.4	103.7	.341	1.7
1960	145	640	571	83	156	33	6	15	86	59	86	11	8	.273	.340	.431	.771	109.4	110.6	.342	2.1
1961	119	442	381	61	102	20	3	3	42	51	49	3	5	.268	.358	.360	.718	94.0	93.0	.326	0.6
1962	144	597	510	87	154	29	7	20	75	76	89	10	4	.302	.395	.504	.899	143.2	141.0	.402	4.5
1963	106	354	316	43	82	15	7	3	25	34	64	5	3	.259	.335	.380	.715	109.3	105.3	.330	1.1
1964	80	192	177	16	45	8	0	4	21	15	32	0	0	.254	.313	.367	.680	85.4	86.0	.308	0.1
1965	80	164	152	25	47	5	4	5	26	12	30	1	0	.309	.360	.493	.853	135.6	132.8	.379	1.1
1966	49	48	45	2	7	1	0	1	5	2	17	0	0	.156	.208	.244	.453	20.2	24.9	.211	-0.3

Career totals

1,381

4,873

4,318

642

1,198

197

103

RBI

531

485

646

.2774

OBP

.3512

SLG

.4215

OPS

.7727

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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1959-05-09	PHI @ PIT Gameday	4	3	4	0	2	4	10
1957-07-23	PIT @ CIN Gameday	7	3	4	0	2	3	10
1965-08-15	CIN @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	3	9
1962-08-12	PIT @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	3	9
1962-08-20	PIT @ NYM Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	2	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1954-04-29	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954-05-02	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954-05-04	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954-05-09	SF @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954-05-13	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.