Rube Foster
Boston Red Sox 1913–1917
Percentile snapshot
1916 season — qualified pitchers
of 91 qualified 1916 pitchers (min 156 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 20 | 22 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .095 | .136 | .095 | .232 | -41.8 | -32.2 | .123 | 0.3 |
| 1914 | 35 | 72 | 63 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 0 | .175 | .224 | .190 | .414 | 18.8 | 25.6 | .211 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 40 | 98 | 83 | 10 | 23 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .277 | .326 | .398 | .723 | 116.0 | 121.9 | .350 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 38 | 67 | 62 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .177 | .215 | .226 | .441 | 24.7 | 34.6 | .219 | 1.0 |
| 1917 | 17 | 46 | 41 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .268 | .302 | .317 | .619 | 87.3 | 91.7 | .303 | 1.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 64 | 24 | 28 | 36 | 1 | 68.3 | 3.16 | 1.346 | 4.74 | 3.03 | 102.7 | 93.3 | 0.3 |
| 1914 | 32 | 27 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 164 | 40 | 52 | 89 | 2 | 211.7 | 1.70 | 1.020 | 3.78 | 2.46 | 91.3 | 158.4 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 37 | 33 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 5 | 217 | 60 | 86 | 82 | 3 | 255.3 | 2.11 | 1.187 | 2.89 | 3.01 | 108.2 | 131.7 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 33 | 19 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 173 | 62 | 86 | 53 | 0 | 182.3 | 3.06 | 1.420 | 2.62 | 3.22 | 117.6 | 89.6 | 1.0 |
| 1917 | 17 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 108 | 35 | 53 | 34 | 0 | 124.7 | 2.53 | 1.291 | 2.45 | 2.97 | 114.8 | 102.3 | 1.5 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1915-07-10 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1915-10-09 | BOS @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1917-09-07 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1915-08-12 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1917-07-26 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914-06-07 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 0 |
| 1914-04-15 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1914-05-12 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 1915-10-09 | BOS @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 1913-07-10 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 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.