MLB / Players

Bob Veale

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 6 in · 212 lb

BornOctober 28, 1935 · Birmingham, AL, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1962

Final gameSeptember 8, 1974

Seasons13 (1962–1974)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1962–1971; Boston Red Sox 1972; Pittsburgh Pirates 1972; Boston Red Sox 1973–1974

Percentile snapshot

1970 season — qualified pitchers

21.8

37.2

17.9

14.1

15.4

SHO

11.5

189

75.6

60.3

17.9

178

76.9

80.8

202.0

30.8

ERA

3.92

33.3

WHIP

1.401

16.7

K/9

7.93

94.9

FIP

3.49

66.7

FIP-

89.0

67.9

ERA+

100.1

38.5

sWAR

2.1

30.8

of 79 qualified 1970 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

113.5

79.5

sWAR

27.1

95.9

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1962	11	16	16	1	4	1	0	0	0	7	.250	.250	.313	.563	45.1	51.0	.253	0.6
1963	35	25	23	0	2	1	0	0	2	17	.087	.160	.130	.290	-22.0	-14.9	.148	3.0
1964	41	104	96	4	15	0	0	2	2	52	.156	.173	.156	.330	-15.4	-5.6	.155	5.4
1965	39	104	93	3	8	0	0	3	3	50	.086	.115	.086	.201	-55.6	-42.2	.100	4.4
1966	38	98	94	5	13	0	1	2	1	39	.138	.147	.160	.307	-27.8	-14.3	.141	4.3
1967	33	73	69	1	3	0	0	1	1	36	.043	.057	.043	.101	-92.6	-70.8	.051	0.8
1968	36	86	82	2	9	1	0	1	2	53	.110	.131	.122	.253	-41.8	-23.0	.124	5.1
1969	34	86	79	3	4	0	0	2	3	44	.051	.085	.051	.136	-74.9	-60.4	.073	2.4
1970	34	72	67	5	11	4	0	6	4	34	.164	.211	.224	.435	16.6	19.0	.207	2.1
1971	37	10	9	2	3	0	0	1	0	4	.333	.333	.333	.667	90.9	91.6	.311	-1.5
1972	11	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-138.0	-100.0	.000	0.2
1973	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
1974	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-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
1962	11	6	2	2	1	2	0	39	19	25	42	2	45.7	3.74	1.401	8.28	3.09	79.1	104.5	0.6
1963	34	7	5	2	3	3	2	59	9	40	68	1	77.7	1.04	1.275	7.88	2.50	76.1	314.6	3.0
1964	40	38	18	12	0	14	1	222	85	124	250	8	279.7	2.74	1.237	8.05	2.70	76.9	128.2	5.4
1965	39	37	17	12	0	14	7	221	84	119	276	5	266.0	2.84	1.278	9.34	2.23	63.1	124.2	4.4
1966	38	37	16	12	0	12	3	228	90	102	229	18	268.3	3.02	1.230	7.68	3.03	84.3	119.3	4.3
1967	33	31	16	8	0	6	1	184	82	119	179	12	203.0	3.64	1.493	7.94	3.50	103.0	93.3	0.8
1968	36	33	13	14	0	13	4	187	56	94	171	13	245.3	2.05	1.145	6.27	3.01	102.1	143.8	5.1
1969	34	34	13	14	0	9	1	232	81	91	213	8	225.7	3.23	1.431	8.49	2.48	70.9	108.3	2.4
1970	34	32	10	15	0	5	1	189	88	94	178	15	202.0	3.92	1.401	7.93	3.49	89.0	100.1	2.1
1971	37	0	6	0	2	0	0	59	36	24	40	5	46.3	6.99	1.791	7.77	3.77	110.6	48.8	-1.5
1972	11	0	2	0	2	0	0	12	6	10	16	0	17.0	3.18	1.294	8.47	2.29	68.6	103.7	0.2
1973	32	0	2	3	11	0	0	37	14	12	25	2	36.3	3.47	1.349	6.19	2.91	72.7	115.5	0.6
1974	18	0	0	1	2	0	0	15	8	4	16	2	13.0	5.54	1.462	11.08	3.03	79.3	69.0	-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

399

676

630

RBI

337

.1143

OBP

.1389

SLG

.1286

OPS

.2675

Pitching

G (P)

397

255

120

451st-most career W

SHO

246th-most career SHO

1,926

490th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,703

159th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

858

193rd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.075

197th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3198

K/9

7.96

96th-highest career K/9

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	RBI	TB
1964-07-22	PIT @ STL Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	0	3
1962-09-28	PIT @ ATL Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	3
1966-06-05	HOU @ PIT Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	0	3
1969-08-08	PIT @ SD Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	2
1964-07-18	PIT @ ATL Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1964-09-30	PIT @ CIN Gameday	12.1	7	0	0	8	16
1965-06-01	PHI @ PIT Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	2	16
1964-09-22	ATL @ PIT Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	2	15
1965-07-29	PHI @ PIT Gameday	7.0	7	4	3	3	14
1968-05-16	STL @ PIT Gameday	9.0	8	0	0	2	13

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

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.