MLB / Players

Rube Foster

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 230 lb

BornSeptember 17, 1879 · La Grange, TX, USA

Seasons15 (1903–1917)

Cuban X Giants 1903; Philadelphia Giants 1904–1906; Chicago Leland Giants 1907–1910; Chicago American Giants 1911–1917

Percentile snapshot

1905 season — qualified batters

10.2

3.7

15.7

5.6

10.2

RBI

18.5

4.6

80.6

10.2

.349

91.7

OBP

.364

79.6

SLG

.419

83.3

OPS

.782

84.3

wRC+

136.6

81.5

OPS+

143.7

84.3

wOBA

.365

78.7

sWAR

1.4

38.9

of 109 qualified 1905 batters (min 40 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

1914 season — qualified pitchers

3.4

5.9

6.7

92.4

7.6

SHO

35.3

98.3

94.1

2.5

80.7

72.7

3.4

ERA

2.48

73.9

WHIP

1.128

K/9

3.96

42.9

FIP

3.27

21.8

FIP-

102.8

33.6

ERA+

128.3

80.7

sWAR

2.3

50.4

of 120 qualified 1914 pitchers (min 57 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

14.7

90.7

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	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1903	5	18	17	3	6	1	1	0	3	0	0	.353	.389	.529	.918	226.6	260.0	.451	1.1
1904	7	25	24	6	9	2	1	0	4	1	2	.375	.400	.542	.942	173.9	192.6	.434	0.9
1905	10	44	43	2	15	1	1	0	10	1	3	.349	.364	.419	.782	136.6	143.7	.365	1.4
1906	19	77	72	10	23	5	2	0	9	3	2	.319	.355	.444	.800	131.6	141.1	.385	2.1
1907	2	8	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	50.9	0.3	.144	0.1
1908	13	44	41	8	14	2	0	1	10	1	0	.341	.357	.463	.821	105.7	113.2	.383	1.6
1909	5	15	14	1	5	2	0	0	4	1	0	.357	.400	.500	.900	170.0	182.4	.421	1.0
1910	7	20	18	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	.111	.200	.111	.311	17.0	-3.9	.168	1.1
1911	9	24	21	2	6	0	0	0	1	2	1	.286	.348	.286	.634	96.4	91.9	.315	1.4
1912	18	50	47	2	13	2	1	0	7	2	0	.277	.306	.362	.668	94.5	96.1	.316	1.8
1913	12	41	36	2	8	0	0	0	0	3	0	.222	.282	.222	.504	51.1	42.2	.252	-0.3
1914	13	47	45	9	19	2	0	3	11	1	1	.422	.435	.667	1.101	181.6	203.8	.500	2.3
1915	12	39	34	4	9	1	0	0	1	2	1	.265	.306	.294	.600	87.3	87.3	.296	0.0
1916	3	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.000	.125	.000	.125	-32.8	-62.3	.098	0.6
1917	4	15	14	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.071	.071	.071	.143	-61.3	-53.2	.070	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1903	4	4	4	0	0	4	1	19	3	7	19	0	36.0	0.75	.722	4.75	1.36	79.6	228.1	1.1
1904	4	4	4	0	0	4	0	21	6	9	41	3	36.0	1.50	.833	10.25	1.88	100.4	124.7	0.9
1905	3	3	2	0	0	3	0	21	4	3	21	1	32.0	1.13	.750	5.91	2.60	88.3	262.1	1.4
1906	10	8	4	2	1	7	1	62	16	21	39	0	72.0	2.00	1.153	4.88	2.44	80.5	151.3	2.1
1907	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	7	0	1	4	0	9.0	0.00	.889	4.00	0.17	0.0	—	0.1
1908	6	6	5	1	0	6	0	46	12	18	26	1	54.0	2.00	1.185	4.33	2.64	81.4	162.3	1.6
1909	2	2	2	0	0	2	2	11	0	4	11	0	18.0	0.00	.833	5.50	2.08	75.5	—	1.0
1910	4	4	3	0	0	4	0	29	5	5	20	1	40.0	1.13	.850	4.50	2.95	100.1	262.0	1.1
1911	8	5	4	1	0	3	0	46	13	12	33	1	56.7	2.06	1.024	5.24	2.84	86.8	158.2	1.4
1912	10	8	6	2	0	7	0	66	17	17	31	0	74.3	2.06	1.117	3.75	2.95	90.3	159.0	1.8
1913	8	8	4	3	0	5	1	75	33	21	38	2	63.3	4.69	1.516	5.40	3.63	109.4	70.8	-0.3
1914	10	9	5	4	0	7	2	57	20	25	32	2	72.7	2.48	1.128	3.96	3.27	102.8	128.3	2.3
1915	7	6	2	2	0	4	0	48	24	13	20	0	53.3	4.05	1.144	3.38	2.56	88.7	71.4	0.0
1916	2	2	1	1	0	2	0	17	2	9	8	0	18.0	1.00	1.444	4.00	3.24	109.4	295.7	0.6
1917	3	3	2	1	0	3	0	21	10	11	11	0	27.0	3.33	1.185	3.67	2.44	110.4	66.3	-0.3

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

139

475

440

131

RBI

.2977

OBP

.3312

SLG

.3932

OPS

.7244

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

662

SO (P)

354

BB allowed

176

ERA

2.242

WHIP

1.0901

K/9

4.81

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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1981 (Veterans)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.