Guy Bush

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornAugust 23, 1901 · Aberdeen, MS, USA

MLB debutSeptember 17, 1923

Final gameMay 26, 1945

Seasons17 (1923–1945)

Chicago Cubs 1923–1934; Pittsburgh Pirates 1935; Boston Bees 1936; Pittsburgh Pirates 1936; Boston Bees 1937; St. Louis Cardinals 1938; Cincinnati Reds 1945

Percentile snapshot

1937 season — qualified pitchers

44.8

38.5

33.3

11.5

56.3

55.2

SHO

36.5

201

45.8

57.3

56.3

32.3

54.2

180.7

ERA

3.54

63.5

WHIP

1.378

54.2

K/9

2.79

11.5

FIP

3.70

FIP-

103.8

36.5

ERA+

100.9

41.7

sWAR

1.7

42.7

of 97 qualified 1937 pitchers (min 152 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.9

52.7

sWAR

29.7

96.4

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1923	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1924	16	27	26	1	4	1	0	4	1	5	0	.154	.185	.192	.377	-7.2	1.6	.179	0.5
1925	42	62	57	3	11	0	0	2	2	5	0	.193	.220	.193	.413	0.6	6.4	.196	1.6
1926	35	52	48	1	8	0	0	2	1	7	0	.167	.184	.167	.350	-14.4	-5.1	.167	3.0
1927	36	71	65	2	8	1	0	1	1	10	0	.123	.136	.138	.275	-36.3	-25.7	.130	3.3
1928	42	79	73	3	6	0	0	2	2	18	0	.082	.107	.082	.189	-63.8	-49.4	.094	1.5
1929	50	104	91	5	15	0	0	3	3	19	1	.165	.191	.165	.356	-16.5	-10.4	.170	5.1
1930	46	87	78	7	22	0	1	7	6	19	0	.282	.333	.308	.641	58.4	56.2	.299	-0.1
1931	39	67	57	6	7	1	0	9	5	11	0	.123	.194	.140	.334	-15.5	-9.3	.171	0.4
1932	40	94	84	6	15	2	1	1	4	12	0	.179	.216	.226	.442	14.7	20.3	.205	4.0
1933	41	101	88	4	11	4	0	3	8	16	0	.125	.198	.170	.368	2.1	7.1	.185	4.1
1934	41	78	70	4	16	1	0	10	2	13	2	.229	.250	.243	.493	30.8	35.2	.229	2.3
1935	41	75	63	6	8	1	0	2	8	7	0	.127	.236	.143	.379	8.0	3.5	.200	1.5
1936	31	43	34	5	6	0	0	3	3	4	0	.176	.243	.176	.420	17.8	15.3	.211	0.9
1937	33	60	54	4	6	1	0	3	4	16	0	.111	.172	.130	.302	-13.7	-13.0	.154	1.7
1938	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1945	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-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
1923	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	1.0	0.00	1.000	18.00	-1.04	-26.2	—	0.1
1924	16	8	2	5	0	4	0	91	36	24	36	7	80.7	4.02	1.426	4.02	4.16	108.0	95.8	0.5
1925	42	15	6	13	4	5	0	213	87	52	76	15	182.0	4.30	1.456	3.76	4.25	99.4	99.4	1.6
1926	35	16	13	9	2	7	2	149	50	42	32	3	157.3	2.86	1.214	1.83	3.61	94.4	133.6	3.0
1927	36	22	10	10	2	9	1	177	65	79	62	3	193.3	3.03	1.324	2.89	3.87	100.5	127.2	3.3
1928	42	24	15	6	2	9	2	229	87	86	61	10	204.3	3.83	1.542	2.69	4.15	106.8	101.3	1.5
1929	50	29	18	7	8	18	2	277	110	107	82	16	270.7	3.66	1.419	2.73	4.70	100.5	128.0	5.1
1930	46	25	15	10	3	11	0	291	155	86	75	22	225.0	6.20	1.676	3.00	5.33	106.9	80.4	-0.1
1931	39	24	16	8	2	14	1	190	90	66	54	9	180.3	4.49	1.420	2.70	4.15	106.4	86.9	0.4
1932	40	30	19	11	0	15	1	262	85	70	73	13	238.7	3.21	1.391	2.75	3.97	104.5	118.6	4.0
1933	41	32	20	12	2	20	4	261	79	68	84	9	259.0	2.75	1.270	2.92	3.17	97.0	119.1	4.1
1934	40	27	18	10	2	15	1	213	89	54	75	15	209.3	3.83	1.275	3.22	4.09	104.6	102.2	2.3
1935	41	25	11	11	2	8	1	237	98	40	42	16	204.3	4.32	1.356	1.85	4.29	104.9	94.7	1.5
1936	31	11	5	8	2	5	0	147	57	31	38	5	125.0	4.10	1.424	2.74	3.70	95.3	94.3	0.9
1937	32	20	8	15	1	11	1	201	71	48	56	8	180.7	3.54	1.378	2.79	3.70	103.8	100.9	1.7
1938	6	0	0	1	1	0	0	6	3	3	1	1	6.0	4.50	1.500	1.50	6.07	153.3	88.0	0.0
1945	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	4	3	1	0	4.3	8.31	1.846	2.08	4.25	115.6	44.3	-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

544

1,000

888

143

RBI

162

.1610

OBP

.2066

SLG

.1791

OPS

.3857

Pitching

G (P)

542

355th-most career G (P)

308

330th-most career GS

176

175th-most career W

136

238th-most career L

493rd-most career SV

151

225th-most career CG

SHO

354th-most career SHO

2,722

195th-most career IP

SO (P)

850

BB allowed

859

191st-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.855

WHIP

1.3993

K/9

2.81

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	RBI	TB
1930-06-23	PHI @ CHC Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	3	5
1933-08-30	CHC @ LAD Gameday	3	1	3	2	0	0	5
1932-07-09	ATL @ CHC Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	4
1930-09-22	CHC @ ATL Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	0	3
1931-07-14	SF @ CHC Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	2	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1928-05-07	PHI @ CHC Gameday	9.0	9	4	4	2	9	0
1925-08-24	CHC @ LAD Gameday	9.0	6	6	4	4	8	1
1934-04-28	STL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	3	8	0
1934-09-25	CIN @ CHC Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	8	0
1924-07-20	ATL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	9	4	4	2	7	2

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.