Bullet Joe Bush

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 173 lb

BornNovember 27, 1892 · Gull River, MN, USA

MLB debutSeptember 30, 1912

Final gameSeptember 30, 1928

Seasons17 (1912–1928)

Philadelphia Athletics 1912–1917; Boston Red Sox 1918–1921; New York Yankees 1922–1924; St. Louis Browns 1925; Pittsburgh Pirates 1926; Washington Senators 1926; New York Giants 1927; Pittsburgh Pirates 1927; Philadelphia Athletics 1928

Percentile snapshot

1926 season — qualified pitchers

48.8

52.7

23.3

12.4

88.4

54.3

SHO

71.3

180

52.7

30.2

29.5

65.1

5.4

182.0

58.9

ERA

4.45

25.6

WHIP

1.374

50.4

K/9

3.21

52.7

FIP

4.40

27.9

FIP-

111.9

10.9

ERA+

88.3

20.9

sWAR

1.1

31.8

of 130 qualified 1926 pitchers (min 157 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.6

36.8

sWAR

34.8

97.3

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
1912	1	4	4	1	2	0	1	0	3	0	2	0	0	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	310.1	334.4	.682	-0.2
1913	39	74	70	8	11	3	1	0	1	2	21	0	0	.157	.181	.229	.409	10.5	21.0	.197	-0.5
1914	38	80	74	6	14	4	0	1	8	2	25	0	0	.189	.211	.284	.494	37.2	49.8	.237	1.2
1915	25	52	49	2	7	0	0	0	0	1	22	0	0	.143	.160	.143	.303	-19.0	-9.4	.151	-1.1
1916	41	102	100	4	14	4	0	0	6	0	23	0	0	.140	.140	.180	.320	-25.5	-4.1	.152	3.3
1917	37	85	80	9	16	2	1	0	4	5	12	0	0	.200	.247	.250	.497	43.5	50.0	.248	3.1
1918	36	105	98	8	27	3	2	0	14	6	11	0	0	.276	.317	.347	.664	100.0	104.2	.326	5.4
1919	5	5	5	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	.400	.400	.400	.800	130.4	131.5	.379	-0.1
1920	45	114	102	14	25	2	0	0	7	9	15	0	2	.245	.306	.265	.571	57.5	55.5	.280	1.0
1921	50	126	120	19	39	5	4	0	17	3	14	2	0	.325	.341	.433	.775	95.5	99.2	.353	5.1
1922	39	103	95	15	31	6	2	0	12	3	11	0	1	.326	.347	.432	.779	98.3	101.3	.356	5.4
1923	38	116	113	12	31	5	3	2	19	3	8	0	0	.274	.293	.425	.718	80.7	88.1	.328	5.0
1924	60	132	124	13	42	9	3	1	14	7	6	0	0	.339	.374	.484	.858	117.9	121.1	.396	5.4
1925	57	109	102	10	26	12	0	2	18	6	8	2	0	.255	.296	.431	.728	70.8	77.7	.330	1.6
1926	45	83	79	6	20	4	0	1	10	4	12	0	1	.253	.289	.342	.631	62.0	65.7	.294	1.1
1927	10	10	9	0	5	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	.556	.600	.556	1.156	218.5	207.5	.541	-0.8
1928	15	16	15	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	.067	.125	.067	.192	-54.7	-48.4	.105	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1912	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	14	7	4	3	0	8.0	7.88	2.250	3.38	3.70	115.6	40.7	-0.2
1913	39	16	15	6	3	6	1	199	85	66	81	3	200.3	3.82	1.323	3.64	2.92	102.2	74.9	-0.5
1914	38	22	16	12	3	14	2	184	70	81	109	2	206.0	3.06	1.286	4.76	2.71	100.8	87.7	1.2
1915	25	18	5	15	0	8	0	137	67	89	89	3	145.7	4.14	1.551	5.50	3.34	113.8	70.8	-1.1
1916	40	33	15	24	0	25	8	222	82	130	157	3	286.7	2.57	1.228	4.93	2.76	97.2	110.3	3.3
1917	37	31	11	17	2	17	4	207	64	111	121	3	233.3	2.47	1.363	4.67	2.71	99.6	110.2	3.1
1918	36	31	15	15	2	26	7	241	64	91	125	3	272.7	2.11	1.218	4.13	2.42	90.9	126.0	5.4
1919	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	11	5	4	3	0	9.0	5.00	1.667	3.00	3.20	105.6	60.6	-0.1
1920	35	32	15	15	1	18	0	287	115	94	88	3	243.7	4.25	1.564	3.25	3.62	99.6	85.5	1.0
1921	37	32	16	9	1	21	3	244	99	93	96	10	254.3	3.50	1.325	3.40	4.14	99.4	118.9	5.1
1922	39	30	26	7	3	20	0	240	94	85	92	16	255.3	3.31	1.273	3.24	4.05	100.0	122.3	5.4
1923	37	30	19	15	0	22	3	263	105	117	125	7	275.7	3.43	1.378	4.08	3.66	92.6	115.2	5.0
1924	39	31	17	16	1	19	3	262	100	109	80	9	252.0	3.57	1.472	2.86	4.34	103.4	117.4	5.4
1925	33	28	14	14	0	15	2	230	118	91	63	18	208.7	5.09	1.538	2.72	4.96	106.9	91.2	1.6
1926	31	22	7	14	3	12	2	180	90	70	65	13	182.0	4.45	1.374	3.21	4.40	111.9	88.3	1.1
1927	8	5	2	3	0	1	0	32	20	10	7	2	18.7	9.64	2.250	3.38	5.24	131.4	41.1	-0.8
1928	11	2	2	1	1	1	0	39	20	18	15	1	35.3	5.09	1.613	3.82	4.16	103.1	79.3	-0.2

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

581

1,316

1,239

128

313

RBI

137

194

.2526

OBP

.2833

SLG

.3446

OPS

.6279

Pitching

G (P)

489

474th-most career G (P)

366

190th-most career GS

195

133rd-most career W

183

65th-most career L

225

109th-most career CG

SHO

71st-most career SHO

3,087

126th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,319

318th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,263

38th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.513

457th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3782

K/9

3.85

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
1918-07-31	BOS @ BAL Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	0	3	1	6
1921-08-23	BOS @ BAL Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	0	3	0	6
1923-07-03	MIN @ NYY Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	1	1	1	6
1925-07-15	BOS @ BAL Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	1	1	0	6
1918-07-17	BAL @ BOS Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	4	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1918-08-27	DET @ BOS Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	3	13
1918-08-10	NYY @ BOS Gameday	10.0	12	5	5	2	10
1916-07-20	CLE @ ATH Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	9
1916-08-09	ATH @ DET Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	6	9
1917-05-29	NYY @ ATH Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	3	9

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.