Bob Turley
St. Louis Browns 1951; St. Louis Browns 1953; Baltimore Orioles 1954; New York Yankees 1955–1962; Boston Red Sox 1963; Los Angeles Angels 1963
Percentile snapshot
1960 season — qualified pitchers
of 55 qualified 1960 pitchers (min 155 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -132.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1953 | 10 | 21 | 18 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .278 | .316 | .444 | .760 | 97.8 | 102.4 | .344 | 1.3 |
| 1954 | 35 | 89 | 81 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 1 | 0 | .136 | .157 | .160 | .317 | -31.6 | -12.0 | .151 | 2.7 |
| 1955 | 36 | 98 | 82 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .134 | .200 | .183 | .383 | 0.5 | 5.7 | .191 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 27 | 52 | 46 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 1 | .174 | .224 | .217 | .442 | 16.4 | 20.6 | .214 | -0.3 |
| 1957 | 32 | 68 | 57 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 27 | 0 | 0 | .088 | .212 | .088 | .300 | -10.0 | -13.2 | .172 | 3.6 |
| 1958 | 33 | 98 | 88 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 35 | 0 | 0 | .136 | .174 | .205 | .378 | -2.4 | 6.6 | .177 | 4.1 |
| 1959 | 33 | 54 | 46 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .087 | .192 | .087 | .279 | -14.0 | -18.5 | .156 | 0.2 |
| 1960 | 34 | 59 | 55 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .073 | .105 | .091 | .196 | -56.7 | -44.6 | .097 | 2.1 |
| 1961 | 15 | 25 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .095 | .091 | .095 | .186 | -64.6 | -48.5 | .083 | -1.0 |
| 1962 | 24 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -122.5 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1963 | 30 | 39 | 39 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .179 | .179 | .282 | .462 | 17.2 | 28.8 | .203 | 0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 7.3 | 7.36 | 1.909 | 6.14 | 2.44 | 56.5 | 58.7 | -0.2 |
| 1953 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 39 | 22 | 44 | 61 | 4 | 60.3 | 3.28 | 1.376 | 9.10 | 3.69 | 91.6 | 122.9 | 1.3 |
| 1954 | 35 | 35 | 14 | 15 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 178 | 95 | 181 | 185 | 7 | 247.3 | 3.46 | 1.451 | 6.73 | 3.53 | 96.4 | 106.0 | 2.7 |
| 1955 | 36 | 34 | 17 | 13 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 168 | 84 | 177 | 210 | 16 | 246.7 | 3.06 | 1.399 | 7.66 | 3.81 | 99.4 | 125.0 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 27 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 138 | 74 | 103 | 91 | 13 | 132.0 | 5.05 | 1.826 | 6.20 | 4.84 | 122.3 | 78.4 | -0.3 |
| 1957 | 32 | 23 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 120 | 53 | 85 | 152 | 17 | 176.3 | 2.71 | 1.163 | 7.76 | 3.53 | 96.3 | 135.5 | 3.6 |
| 1958 | 33 | 31 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 178 | 81 | 128 | 168 | 24 | 245.3 | 2.97 | 1.247 | 6.16 | 4.01 | 111.5 | 121.0 | 4.1 |
| 1959 | 33 | 22 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 141 | 74 | 83 | 111 | 15 | 154.3 | 4.32 | 1.451 | 6.47 | 3.96 | 106.9 | 85.8 | 0.2 |
| 1960 | 34 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 138 | 63 | 87 | 87 | 14 | 173.3 | 3.27 | 1.298 | 4.52 | 4.04 | 110.6 | 111.7 | 2.1 |
| 1961 | 15 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 74 | 46 | 51 | 48 | 11 | 72.0 | 5.75 | 1.736 | 6.00 | 5.45 | 143.7 | 65.9 | -1.0 |
| 1962 | 24 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 35 | 47 | 42 | 8 | 69.0 | 4.57 | 1.667 | 5.48 | 5.02 | 132.4 | 83.1 | -0.1 |
| 1963 | 30 | 19 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 113 | 60 | 79 | 105 | 11 | 128.7 | 4.20 | 1.492 | 7.34 | 3.85 | 108.0 | 84.5 | 0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958-05-09 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1963-07-04 | LAA @ BAL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1953-08-31 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1958-07-04 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1953-09-09 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-09-05 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 12.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 0 |
| 1954-04-21 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 1 |
| 1955-05-06 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 0 |
| 1955-05-15 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 1 |
| 1954-09-08 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 7.0 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.