Bobby Byrne

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 145 lb

BornDecember 31, 1884 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1907

Final gameSeptember 4, 1917

Seasons11 (1907–1917)

St. Louis Cardinals 1907–1908; Pittsburgh Pirates 1909; St. Louis Cardinals 1909; Pittsburgh Pirates 1910–1912; Philadelphia Phillies 1913; Pittsburgh Pirates 1913; Philadelphia Phillies 1914–1916; Chicago White Sox 1917; Philadelphia Phillies 1917

Percentile snapshot

1914 season — qualified batters

126

27.6

524

34.4

467

38.7

52.1

127

43.6

21.5

7.4

RBI

17.8

56.4

16.6

.272

44.2

OBP

.339

42.9

SLG

.302

12.9

OPS

.640

21.5

wRC+

88.0

22.7

OPS+

86.2

21.5

wOBA

.316

23.3

sWAR

1.3

40.5

of 164 qualified 1914 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

92.8

27.9

OPS+

91.4

25.4

sWAR

15.6

91.3

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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
1907	149	624	559	55	143	11	5	0	29	35	73	21	0	.256	.307	.293	.600	86.4	87.9	.299	1.5
1908	127	490	439	27	84	7	1	0	14	23	59	16	0	.191	.238	.212	.450	40.6	44.5	.226	-1.4
1909	151	690	589	92	133	19	8	1	40	78	49	29	0	.226	.327	.290	.618	98.3	93.4	.315	2.5
1910	148	679	602	101	178	43	12	2	52	66	27	36	0	.296	.366	.417	.783	124.9	125.9	.379	4.7
1911	153	685	598	96	155	24	17	2	52	67	41	23	0	.259	.342	.366	.708	97.9	97.7	.343	2.4
1912	130	598	528	99	152	31	11	3	35	54	40	20	0	.288	.358	.405	.764	111.4	112.2	.363	3.1
1913	132	559	506	63	134	23	0	2	51	34	31	12	0	.265	.320	.322	.642	87.4	87.4	.309	1.2
1914	126	524	467	61	127	12	1	0	26	45	44	9	0	.272	.339	.302	.640	88.0	86.2	.316	1.3
1915	105	446	387	50	81	6	4	0	21	39	28	4	12	.209	.290	.245	.536	64.4	62.4	.269	-0.2
1916	48	167	141	22	33	10	1	0	9	14	7	6	0	.234	.308	.319	.627	91.5	90.5	.304	0.5
1917	14	18	15	1	5	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	.333	.375	.333	.708	118.5	115.8	.343	0.1

Career totals

1,283

5,480

4,831

667

1,225

186

RBI

329

456

401

176

451st-most career SB

.2536

OBP

.3242

SLG

.3231

OPS

.6473

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
1911-04-12	PIT @ CIN Gameday	5	2	5	1	1	0	0	1	8
1910-05-12	LAD @ PIT Gameday	7	2	4	1	1	0	2	0	7
1910-09-07	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	0	0	1	7
1910-08-04	PIT @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	2	0	7
1910-08-18	CIN @ PIT Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1907-04-11	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-14	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-15	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-16	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-17	STL @ CIN 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.