MLB / Players

Bobby Veach

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 160 lb

BornJune 29, 1888 · St. Charles, KY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 6, 1912

Final gameOctober 2, 1925

Seasons14 (1912–1925)

Detroit Tigers 1912–1923; Boston Red Sox 1924–1925; New York Yankees 1925; Washington Senators 1925

Percentile snapshot

1924 season — qualified batters

142

74.1

599

74.1

519

72.4

73.6

153

90.2

79.9

64.9

RBI

91.4

76.4

34.5

33.3

.295

46.6

OBP

.359

50.6

SLG

.426

61.5

OPS

.785

57.5

wRC+

99.5

43.7

OPS+

101.0

44.8

wOBA

.368

55.7

sWAR

1.2

of 175 qualified 1924 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

124.7

85.6

OPS+

126.4

sWAR

39.0

97.8

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
1912	23	88	79	8	27	5	1	0	15	5	3	2	4	.342	.388	.430	.819	128.8	131.3	.393	0.5
1913	137	564	491	54	132	22	10	0	64	53	31	22	0	.269	.346	.354	.700	105.6	104.8	.345	1.6
1914	149	606	531	56	146	19	14	1	72	50	29	20	20	.275	.341	.369	.710	109.2	109.8	.348	1.8
1915	152	659	569	81	178	40	10	3	112	68	43	16	19	.313	.390	.434	.824	140.5	141.3	.402	4.6
1916	150	645	566	92	173	33	15	3	91	52	41	24	15	.306	.367	.433	.800	136.7	136.8	.387	4.0
1917	154	666	571	79	182	31	12	8	103	61	44	21	0	.319	.393	.457	.850	158.3	157.4	.412	5.9
1918	127	555	499	59	139	21	13	3	78	35	23	21	0	.279	.331	.391	.722	117.0	120.3	.352	2.2
1919	139	598	538	87	191	45	17	3	101	33	33	19	0	.355	.398	.519	.916	156.0	156.1	.426	5.3
1920	154	670	612	92	188	39	15	11	113	36	22	11	7	.307	.353	.474	.827	115.4	118.7	.379	2.8
1921	150	688	612	110	207	43	13	16	128	48	31	14	10	.338	.387	.529	.917	129.2	131.5	.414	4.0
1922	155	704	618	96	202	34	13	9	126	42	27	9	1	.327	.377	.468	.845	120.2	121.1	.387	3.2
1923	114	339	293	45	94	13	3	2	39	29	21	10	3	.321	.388	.406	.794	111.9	110.3	.377	1.3
1924	142	599	519	77	153	35	9	5	99	47	18	5	5	.295	.359	.426	.785	99.5	101.0	.368	1.2
1925	75	176	158	17	51	13	2	0	25	12	4	1	4	.323	.374	.430	.805	105.5	106.1	.375	0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1918	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	2.0	4.50	2.000	0.00	5.16	191.4	59.9	2.2

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

1,821

393rd-most career G

7,557

357th-most career PA

6,656

366th-most career AB

953

414th-most career R

2,063

261st-most career H

393

221st-most career 2B

147

56th-most career 3B

RBI

1,166

184th-most career RBI

571

370

195

385th-most career SB

.3099

121st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3696

288th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4420

OPS

.8116

415th-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

4.500

WHIP

2.0000

K/9

0.00

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
1920-09-17	BOS @ DET Gameday	6	2	6	1	1	1	6	0	12
1922-09-08	DET @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	5	0	9
1921-07-03	DET @ CLE Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
1916-06-14	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	1	4	0	2	0	3	0	8
1922-07-29	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	3	4	0	2	0	1	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB
1918-09-02	CWS @ DET Gameday	2.0	2	1	1	2
1912-08-01	MIN @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1912-08-02	MIN @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1912-08-03	MIN @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1912-08-04	NYY @ DET Gameday	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.