Bob Steele
St. Louis Cardinals 1916; Pittsburgh Pirates 1917; St. Louis Cardinals 1917; New York Giants 1918; Pittsburgh Pirates 1918; New York Giants 1919
Percentile snapshot
1917 season — qualified pitchers
of 91 qualified 1917 pitchers (min 157 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 29 | 51 | 51 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .196 | .196 | .196 | .392 | 3.4 | 19.5 | .185 | -0.1 |
| 1917 | 45 | 90 | 89 | 8 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 0 | .247 | .247 | .292 | .539 | 52.8 | 63.3 | .252 | 2.2 |
| 1918 | 22 | 40 | 37 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | .216 | .275 | .324 | .599 | 80.4 | 84.2 | .290 | 1.1 |
| 1919 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 29 | 22 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 156 | 56 | 42 | 67 | 6 | 148.0 | 3.41 | 1.338 | 4.07 | 2.84 | 106.8 | 78.0 | -0.1 |
| 1917 | 39 | 25 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 191 | 70 | 72 | 105 | 1 | 221.7 | 2.84 | 1.186 | 4.26 | 2.54 | 91.9 | 97.3 | 2.2 |
| 1918 | 22 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 100 | 37 | 28 | 45 | 3 | 115.0 | 2.90 | 1.113 | 3.52 | 2.72 | 98.9 | 94.6 | 1.1 |
| 1919 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 6.00 | 1.667 | 0.00 | 4.44 | 155.9 | 47.5 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917-09-11 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1918-07-21 | SF @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1916-09-06 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1917-07-13 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1918-06-17 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916-07-31 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 8.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| 1916-09-03 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 8.0 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
| 1918-08-15 | SF @ CIN Gameday | 7.1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| 1917-08-21 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 13.0 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
| 1918-06-21 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 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.