MLB / Players

Bob Wickman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 207 lb
BornFebruary 6, 1969 · Green Bay, WI, USA
MLB debutAugust 24, 1992
Final gameSeptember 30, 2007
Seasons15 (1992–2007)

New York Yankees 1992–1995; Milwaukee Brewers 1996; New York Yankees 1996; Milwaukee Brewers 1997–1999; Cleveland Indians 2000; Milwaukee Brewers 2000; Cleveland Indians 2001–2002; Cleveland Indians 2004–2005; Atlanta Braves 2006; Cleveland Indians 2006; Arizona Diamondbacks 2007; Atlanta Braves 2007

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

ERA+
125.7
94.6
sWAR
20.8
93.9

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
199280000000000000.4
1993410000000000000.7
1994530000000000001.8
1995630000000000001.3
1996700000000000001.5
1997740000000000002.8
199872110000000000.000.000.000.000-126.8-100.0.0001.3
199971110000000000.000.000.000.000-122.7-100.0.0001.6
2000690000000000002.0
2001700000000000002.3
2002360000000000000.3
2004300000000000000.4
2005640000000000001.8
2006570000000000001.6
2007570000000000001.0

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1992886100051232021250.34.111.4113.753.7896.595.40.4
1993411914441115672697013140.04.631.6074.504.79113.990.90.7
19945305460054242756370.03.091.1577.203.3572.4150.21.8
19956312410077363351680.04.051.3755.744.2791.7114.91.3
1996700710001064744751095.74.421.5687.064.5891.9112.51.5
19977407610089294178895.72.731.3597.343.9886.6168.62.8
199872069250079343971582.33.721.4337.763.7086.8114.71.3
199971038370075283860674.33.391.5207.264.1291.2133.31.6
200069035300064253255172.73.101.3216.813.1566.2152.72.0
200170050320061181466467.72.391.1088.782.6357.5190.82.3
200236013200042171036334.34.461.5159.443.0668.999.60.3
200430002130033141026429.74.251.4497.894.3798.1104.90.4
200564004450057172141962.02.471.2585.954.68110.2172.11.8
200657016330053161342254.02.671.2227.002.8563.3168.51.6
200757034200054202137450.33.581.4906.624.1794.4123.71.0

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

G
835
PA
2
AB
2
R
0
H
0
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
0
SB
0
BA
.0000
OBP
.0000
SLG
.0000
OPS
.0000

Pitching

G (P)
835
49th-most career G (P)
GS
28
W
63
L
61
SV
267
35th-most career SV
CG
1
SHO
1
IP
1,059
SO (P)
785
BB allowed
432
ERA
3.569
500th-lowest career ERA
WHIP
1.4004
K/9
6.67
257th-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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1996-08-30MIN @ MIL Gameday000000000
1997-07-02MIL @ CIN Gameday000000000
1997-09-01MIL @ HOU Gameday000000000
1998-03-31MIL @ ATL Gameday000000000
1998-04-02MIL @ ATL Gameday000000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1993-06-20MIN @ NYY Gameday9.0600360
1992-08-29NYY @ MIN Gameday8.0533550
1993-05-04ATH @ NYY Gameday8.0311450
1992-09-09NYY @ BAL Gameday7.0822451
1997-09-21MIL @ MIN Gameday3.2200150

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

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.