Bob Sykes
Detroit Tigers 1977–1978; St. Louis Cardinals 1979–1981
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.1 |
| 1978 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | 26 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .095 | .208 | .095 | .304 | -12.1 | -14.3 | .171 | -1.3 |
| 1980 | 27 | 45 | 39 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .103 | .143 | .103 | .245 | -45.5 | -31.1 | .125 | -0.4 |
| 1981 | 22 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 44.6 | 0.6 | .253 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 32 | 20 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 141 | 65 | 50 | 58 | 15 | 132.7 | 4.41 | 1.440 | 3.93 | 4.51 | 106.2 | 96.5 | 1.1 |
| 1978 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 99 | 41 | 34 | 58 | 14 | 93.7 | 3.94 | 1.420 | 5.57 | 4.38 | 113.7 | 97.7 | 0.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 46 | 34 | 35 | 11 | 67.0 | 6.18 | 1.791 | 4.70 | 5.35 | 141.5 | 61.2 | -1.3 |
| 1980 | 27 | 19 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 134 | 65 | 54 | 50 | 12 | 126.0 | 4.64 | 1.492 | 3.57 | 4.48 | 120.5 | 80.0 | -0.4 |
| 1981 | 22 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 19 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 37.3 | 4.58 | 1.473 | 3.38 | 4.14 | 116.0 | 78.0 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-08-11 | WSH @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1979-04-10 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1979-09-29 | NYM @ STL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1980-04-17 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1980-05-04 | HOU @ STL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978-05-06 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
| 1977-05-10 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 5.2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 1978-08-03 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 4.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1977-09-27 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 6.2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 1977-04-13 | DET @ TOR Gameday | 4.1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 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.