Bob Swift

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb

BornMarch 6, 1915 · Salina, KS, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1940

Final gameSeptember 27, 1953

Seasons14 (1940–1953)

St. Louis Browns 1940–1941; Philadelphia Athletics 1942; St. Louis Browns 1942; Philadelphia Athletics 1943; Detroit Tigers 1944–1953

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

wRC+

61.2

OPS+

61.3

0.6

sWAR

3.9

76.6

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
1940	130	433	398	37	97	20	1	0	39	28	39	1	0	.244	.295	.299	.594	49.3	52.0	.277	-0.3
1941	63	195	170	13	44	7	0	0	21	22	11	2	0	.259	.344	.300	.644	70.9	68.4	.313	0.4
1942	89	287	268	12	59	7	0	1	23	16	22	1	4	.220	.264	.257	.522	39.5	45.6	.253	-0.4
1943	77	262	224	16	43	5	1	1	11	35	16	0	0	.192	.301	.237	.538	60.4	57.4	.276	0.4
1944	80	283	247	15	63	11	1	1	19	27	27	2	0	.255	.331	.320	.651	84.3	83.3	.317	1.1
1945	95	310	279	19	65	5	0	0	24	26	22	1	0	.233	.298	.251	.549	54.0	56.9	.275	0.2
1946	42	124	107	13	25	2	0	2	10	14	7	0	0	.234	.322	.308	.631	73.1	73.2	.306	0.4
1947	97	323	279	23	70	11	0	1	21	33	16	2	2	.251	.330	.301	.631	75.3	74.9	.309	1.0
1948	113	356	292	23	65	6	0	4	33	51	29	1	0	.223	.338	.284	.622	69.7	65.5	.313	0.8
1949	74	215	189	16	45	6	0	2	18	26	20	0	0	.238	.330	.302	.632	69.3	68.7	.313	0.5
1950	67	159	132	14	30	4	0	2	9	25	6	0	0	.227	.350	.303	.653	72.2	67.2	.323	0.5
1951	44	118	104	8	20	0	0	0	5	12	10	0	0	.192	.276	.192	.468	28.3	28.0	.239	-0.3
1952	28	66	58	3	8	1	0	0	4	7	7	0	0	.138	.242	.155	.398	7.6	10.8	.211	-0.3
1953	2	5	3	0	1	1	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	.333	.600	.667	1.267	245.0	239.8	.563	0.1

Career totals

1,001

3,136

2,750

212

635

RBI

238

324

233

.2309

OBP

.3126

SLG

.2796

OPS

.5922

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1948-05-20	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	1	0	6
1946-09-06	CLE @ DET Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	2	0	6
1940-07-19	BAL @ ATH Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	0	0	5
1941-06-22	BAL @ BOS Gameday	5	0	4	1	0	0	0	5
1947-05-11	DET @ CWS Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	3	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1940-04-16	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-18	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-20	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-21	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-22	CLE @ BAL 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.