Bob Speake
Chicago Cubs 1955; Chicago Cubs 1957; San Francisco Giants 1958–1959
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 95 | 293 | 261 | 36 | 57 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 43 | 28 | 71 | 3 | 4 | .218 | .300 | .429 | .729 | 87.2 | 90.0 | .319 | 0.1 |
| 1957 | 129 | 463 | 418 | 65 | 97 | 14 | 5 | 16 | 50 | 38 | 68 | 5 | 6 | .232 | .299 | .404 | .703 | 86.9 | 87.0 | .313 | 0.4 |
| 1958 | 66 | 84 | 71 | 9 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 0 | 1 | .211 | .333 | .380 | .714 | 92.6 | 90.1 | .325 | 0.2 |
| 1959 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .167 | .091 | .258 | -28.9 | -26.8 | .138 | -0.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-05-25 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1955-05-20 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 1957-07-27 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1957-08-09 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1955-05-30 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-04-16 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-04-17 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-04-17 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-05-05 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-05-14 | SF @ CHC 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.