Bob Talbot
Chicago Cubs 1953–1954
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 8 | 32 | 30 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .400 | .733 | 83.6 | 87.6 | .325 | 0.0 |
| 1954 | 114 | 428 | 403 | 45 | 97 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 16 | 25 | 3 | 6 | .241 | .274 | .305 | .579 | 42.1 | 49.9 | .264 | -1.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-09-01 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1954-04-23 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1954-06-23 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1954-06-09 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1954-08-20 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-04-16 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-04-26 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-04-28 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-04-29 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-05-10 | CHC @ ATL 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.