Gary Bell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 196 lb

BornNovember 17, 1936 · San Antonio, TX, USA

MLB debutJune 1, 1958

Final gameSeptember 12, 1969

Seasons12 (1958–1969)

Cleveland Indians 1958–1966; Boston Red Sox 1967; Cleveland Indians 1967; Boston Red Sox 1968; Chicago White Sox 1969; Seattle Pilots 1969

Percentile snapshot

1968 season — qualified pitchers

13.3

21.3

62.7

70.7

41.3

SHO

46.7

177

77.3

57.3

103

9.3

199.3

25.3

ERA

3.12

29.3

WHIP

1.229

K/9

4.65

10.7

FIP

2.75

57.3

FIP-

86.8

74.7

ERA+

101.5

41.3

sWAR

2.3

42.7

of 76 qualified 1968 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

97.9

29.3

sWAR

19.1

93.2

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1958	33	66	56	4	11	1	1	0	3	4	14	0	.196	.262	.250	.512	42.3	43.7	.245	2.8
1959	44	86	75	8	18	2	0	0	6	3	19	0	.240	.269	.267	.536	48.2	50.7	.250	1.7
1960	30	58	47	6	7	1	0	0	3	2	9	1	.149	.200	.170	.370	-3.3	2.8	.181	0.8
1961	34	95	81	8	16	1	0	0	9	4	17	0	.198	.233	.210	.442	15.5	21.0	.209	2.0
1962	57	27	24	2	5	0	0	0	2	3	9	0	.208	.296	.208	.505	45.1	40.7	.251	0.7
1963	58	29	26	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	8	0	.115	.148	.115	.264	-37.5	-24.5	.128	2.0
1964	56	20	16	2	6	0	0	0	5	1	5	0	.375	.412	.375	.787	129.3	122.0	.364	0.3
1965	60	17	16	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	7	0	.063	.063	.250	.313	-35.8	-15.6	.131	1.6
1966	40	89	76	2	10	0	1	0	2	4	25	0	.132	.185	.158	.343	-6.6	0.3	.168	3.1
1967	38	81	74	7	12	3	0	0	2	0	18	0	.162	.162	.203	.365	-14.2	3.6	.166	2.5
1968	35	66	59	5	13	3	0	0	6	0	16	0	.220	.213	.271	.484	24.9	42.1	.219	2.3
1969	36	27	19	1	3	2	0	0	2	3	5	0	.158	.273	.263	.536	53.1	49.7	.266	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1958	33	23	12	10	1	10	0	141	67	73	110	17	182.0	3.31	1.176	5.44	3.74	101.0	111.6	2.8
1959	44	28	16	11	5	12	1	208	105	105	136	28	234.0	4.04	1.338	5.23	4.27	114.1	92.6	1.7
1960	28	23	9	10	1	6	2	139	71	82	109	15	154.7	4.13	1.429	6.34	3.98	105.2	91.6	0.8
1961	34	34	12	16	0	11	2	214	104	100	163	32	228.3	4.10	1.375	6.42	4.29	108.9	96.1	2.0
1962	57	6	10	9	12	1	0	104	51	52	80	14	107.7	4.26	1.449	6.69	4.25	109.4	91.1	0.7
1963	58	7	8	5	5	0	0	91	39	52	98	13	119.0	2.95	1.202	7.41	3.65	100.8	122.6	2.0
1964	56	2	8	6	4	0	0	106	51	53	89	15	106.0	4.33	1.500	7.56	4.23	117.2	83.4	0.3
1965	60	0	6	5	17	0	0	86	35	50	86	7	103.7	3.04	1.312	7.47	3.12	89.8	114.4	1.6
1966	40	37	14	15	0	12	0	211	91	79	194	19	254.3	3.22	1.140	6.87	2.86	83.6	106.2	3.1
1967	38	33	13	13	3	9	0	193	83	71	154	23	226.0	3.31	1.168	6.13	3.39	99.6	103.3	2.5
1968	35	27	11	11	1	9	3	177	69	68	103	7	199.3	3.12	1.229	4.65	2.75	86.8	101.5	2.3
1969	36	13	2	6	2	1	1	124	59	57	56	16	100.0	5.31	1.810	5.04	5.15	138.8	69.8	-0.8

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

521

661

569

105

RBI

152

.1845

OBP

.2217

SLG

.2197

OPS

.4414

Pitching

G (P)

519

398th-most career G (P)

233

121

440th-most career W

117

364th-most career L

364th-most career SV

SHO

2,015

447th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,378

292nd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

842

214th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.685

WHIP

1.3082

K/9

6.15

342nd-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	HR	RBI	TB
1958-09-16	MIN @ CLE Gameday	4	0	4	0	0	1	4
1965-05-23	BOS @ CLE Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4
1961-09-26	CLE @ MIN Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	1	3
1959-08-06	CLE @ MIN Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	2	3
1968-06-23	BOS @ CWS Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	2	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1966-04-16	BOS @ CLE Gameday	7.1	4	2	2	3	13	1
1960-04-19	DET @ CLE Gameday	10.1	4	2	2	5	12	0
1961-05-24	CLE @ LAA Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	4	10	1
1961-09-19	ATH @ CLE Gameday	9.0	12	2	1	2	10	0
1963-04-24	BOS @ CLE Gameday	8.0	4	0	0	5	10	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.

Honors

3× 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.