Rube Bressler

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 187 lb

BornOctober 23, 1894 · Coder, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 24, 1914

Final gameJuly 18, 1932

Seasons19 (1914–1932)

Philadelphia Athletics 1914–1916; Cincinnati Reds 1917–1927; Brooklyn Robins 1928–1931; Philadelphia Phillies 1932; St. Louis Cardinals 1932

Percentile snapshot

1929 season — qualified batters

136

58.5

539

54.9

456

51.8

145

59.1

45.7

64.6

68.3

RBI

70.1

83.5

20.7

34.8

.318

60.4

OBP

.406

73.8

SLG

.461

57.3

OPS

.867

64.6

wRC+

119.3

66.5

OPS+

117.2

64.6

wOBA

.397

67.1

sWAR

2.5

62.8

of 165 qualified 1929 batters (min 474 PA)

1915 season — qualified pitchers

27.2

20.8

4.8

10.4

5.6

SHO

183

60.8

103

4.8

118

6.4

25.6

51.2

178.3

25.6

ERA

5.20

0.8

WHIP

1.688

K/9

3.48

31.2

FIP

3.92

FIP-

133.8

0.8

ERA+

56.4

0.8

sWAR

-3.1

of 126 qualified 1915 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

113.4

68.7

OPS+

111.0

64.1

sWAR

18.9

93.1

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
1914	29	60	51	6	11	1	1	0	4	6	7	0	0	.216	.310	.275	.585	80.1	77.6	.299	3.6
1915	33	68	55	9	8	0	1	1	4	9	13	0	0	.145	.277	.236	.513	59.6	53.6	.272	-3.1
1916	4	6	5	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	.200	.200	.600	.800	121.3	139.1	.362	-0.5
1917	3	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	11.2	24.1	.189	-0.3
1918	23	68	62	10	17	5	0	0	6	5	4	0	0	.274	.328	.355	.683	110.3	110.3	.330	2.2
1919	61	197	165	22	34	3	4	2	17	23	15	2	0	.206	.311	.309	.620	94.5	90.2	.305	0.3
1920	21	32	30	4	8	1	0	0	3	1	4	1	0	.267	.290	.300	.590	68.3	72.6	.280	0.5
1921	109	381	323	41	99	18	6	1	54	39	20	5	5	.307	.385	.409	.793	118.8	115.7	.370	1.6
1922	52	58	53	7	14	0	2	0	8	4	4	1	0	.264	.316	.340	.655	72.1	72.1	.307	0.0
1923	54	145	119	25	33	3	1	0	18	20	4	3	1	.277	.399	.319	.718	105.2	95.4	.354	0.4
1924	115	415	383	41	133	14	13	4	49	22	20	9	10	.347	.389	.483	.872	137.3	137.2	.396	2.7
1925	97	368	319	43	111	17	6	4	61	40	16	9	5	.348	.424	.476	.900	136.7	134.4	.411	2.3
1926	86	350	297	58	106	15	9	1	51	37	20	3	0	.357	.433	.478	.911	152.4	149.8	.423	3.0
1927	124	524	467	43	136	14	8	3	77	32	22	4	0	.291	.338	.375	.713	93.7	94.2	.333	0.7
1928	145	609	501	78	148	29	13	4	70	80	33	2	0	.295	.398	.429	.827	122.0	118.1	.387	2.9
1929	136	539	456	72	145	22	8	9	77	67	27	4	0	.318	.406	.461	.867	119.3	117.2	.397	2.5
1930	109	399	335	53	100	12	8	3	52	51	19	4	0	.299	.394	.409	.803	100.5	96.2	.369	0.9
1931	67	167	153	22	43	4	5	0	26	11	10	0	0	.281	.329	.373	.702	88.4	89.4	.325	0.2
1932	37	107	102	9	22	6	1	0	8	2	6	0	0	.216	.231	.294	.525	21.6	32.8	.235	-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
1914	29	10	10	4	2	8	1	112	29	56	96	1	147.7	1.77	1.138	5.85	2.35	87.5	151.8	3.6
1915	32	20	4	17	0	7	1	183	103	118	69	3	178.3	5.20	1.688	3.48	3.92	133.8	56.4	-3.1
1916	4	2	0	2	0	0	0	16	11	14	8	0	15.0	6.60	2.000	4.80	4.46	157.1	43.0	-0.5
1917	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	15	6	5	2	0	9.0	6.00	2.222	2.00	3.60	136.2	44.1	-0.3
1918	17	13	8	5	0	10	0	124	35	39	37	3	128.0	2.46	1.273	2.60	2.96	109.5	110.0	2.2
1919	13	4	2	4	0	1	0	37	16	8	13	1	41.7	3.46	1.080	2.81	2.71	96.7	80.9	0.3
1920	10	2	2	0	0	1	1	24	4	2	4	0	20.3	1.77	1.279	1.77	2.50	82.7	171.1	0.5

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

1,305

4,498

3,881

544

1,170

164

236th-most career 3B

RBI

586

449

246

.3015

205th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3779

205th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4133

OPS

.7912

Pitching

G (P)

107

SHO

540

SO (P)

229

BB allowed

242

ERA

3.400

WHIP

1.3944

K/9

3.82

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	TB
1930-08-31	PHI @ LAD Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	4	8
1928-09-27	PIT @ LAD Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	0	2	7
1929-06-23	SF @ LAD Gameday	7	2	4	0	0	1	1	7
1925-06-12	LAD @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	4	7
1927-07-24	STL @ CIN Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	0	3	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1914-08-25	BAL @ ATH Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	1	10
1914-07-21	CLE @ ATH Gameday	9.0	11	6	3	2	8
1914-07-30	ATH @ BAL Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	4	8
1914-09-10	BOS @ ATH Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	2	8
1914-07-09	DET @ ATH Gameday	8.1	6	2	2	1	7

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.