MLB / Players

Rube Walberg

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornJuly 27, 1896 · Pine City, MN, USA

MLB debutApril 29, 1923

Final gameOctober 2, 1937

Seasons15 (1923–1937)

New York Giants 1923; Philadelphia Athletics 1923–1933; Boston Red Sox 1934–1937

Percentile snapshot

1933 season — qualified pitchers

84.8

39.4

44.4

25.3

92.9

45.5

SHO

38.4

224

35.4

109

8.1

60.6

18.2

201.0

54.5

ERA

4.88

10.1

WHIP

1.587

K/9

3.04

35.4

FIP

4.56

14.1

FIP-

105.7

27.3

ERA+

88.4

15.2

sWAR

0.7

21.2

of 100 qualified 1933 pitchers (min 152 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

106.1

sWAR

31.7

96.8

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1923	28	46	42	1	13	2	1	0	3	1	18	0	0	.310	.326	.405	.730	84.6	89.6	.338	0.0
1924	6	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	161.4	156.6	.472	-0.5
1925	53	64	64	6	10	4	0	0	5	0	17	0	0	.156	.156	.219	.375	-21.7	-7.3	.170	2.6
1926	40	53	46	0	7	0	0	0	4	2	13	0	0	.152	.188	.152	.340	-22.4	-11.6	.169	3.4
1927	47	102	87	14	18	3	0	2	10	13	16	1	0	.207	.310	.310	.620	62.0	59.9	.301	3.5
1928	38	92	86	10	18	4	0	1	7	3	13	1	0	.209	.236	.291	.527	30.8	37.6	.243	3.7
1929	40	112	103	11	23	2	0	1	11	3	17	0	0	.223	.245	.272	.517	26.7	32.7	.239	4.5
1930	38	80	73	5	12	2	2	0	9	4	13	0	0	.164	.208	.247	.454	12.3	14.3	.210	1.8
1931	45	114	105	6	13	1	1	0	6	5	16	0	0	.124	.164	.152	.316	-23.1	-17.6	.154	4.5
1932	41	108	94	8	16	2	0	0	8	5	16	0	0	.170	.212	.191	.404	1.6	4.6	.194	1.9
1933	41	80	68	4	9	3	1	0	6	5	10	0	1	.132	.192	.206	.398	1.5	4.9	.192	0.7
1934	30	34	32	2	6	1	0	0	7	1	8	0	0	.188	.212	.219	.431	1.2	9.3	.204	1.7
1935	44	42	37	3	6	1	0	0	3	2	10	0	0	.162	.205	.189	.394	-8.5	0.3	.191	2.3
1936	24	37	32	1	5	0	0	0	3	2	3	0	0	.156	.206	.156	.362	-13.8	-10.9	.181	1.7
1937	32	39	34	7	5	1	0	0	2	2	8	0	0	.147	.194	.176	.371	-14.3	-6.7	.180	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1923	28	10	4	8	0	4	0	126	69	61	39	10	120.0	5.18	1.558	2.93	4.92	121.3	78.3	0.0
1924	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	10	10	10	3	0	7.0	12.86	2.857	3.86	6.55	152.9	33.3	-0.5
1925	53	20	8	14	7	7	0	197	85	77	82	11	191.7	3.99	1.430	3.85	4.23	93.2	113.8	2.6
1926	40	19	12	10	2	5	2	168	47	60	72	4	151.0	2.80	1.510	4.29	3.62	88.3	146.5	3.4
1927	46	34	16	12	4	15	0	257	109	91	136	18	249.3	3.93	1.396	4.91	4.05	96.3	106.9	3.5
1928	38	30	17	12	1	15	3	236	93	64	112	19	235.7	3.55	1.273	4.28	3.98	98.6	113.7	3.7
1929	40	33	18	11	4	20	3	256	107	99	94	22	267.7	3.60	1.326	3.16	4.49	105.6	118.2	4.5
1930	38	30	13	12	1	12	2	207	107	85	100	6	205.3	4.69	1.422	4.38	4.13	88.2	99.8	1.8
1931	44	35	20	12	3	19	1	298	121	109	106	16	291.0	3.74	1.399	3.28	4.36	97.0	120.2	4.5
1932	41	34	17	10	1	19	3	305	143	103	96	16	272.0	4.73	1.500	3.18	4.32	95.3	95.8	1.9
1933	40	20	9	13	4	10	1	224	109	95	68	12	201.0	4.88	1.587	3.04	4.56	105.7	88.4	0.7
1934	30	10	6	7	1	2	0	118	47	41	38	5	104.7	4.04	1.519	3.27	4.25	91.2	115.4	1.7
1935	44	10	5	9	3	4	0	152	62	54	44	10	142.7	3.91	1.444	2.78	4.56	98.2	118.8	2.3
1936	24	9	5	4	0	5	0	98	49	36	49	7	100.3	4.40	1.336	4.40	4.53	86.9	118.5	1.7
1937	32	11	5	7	1	3	0	143	65	46	46	7	104.7	5.59	1.806	3.96	4.52	96.2	84.1	0.0

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

547

1,005

905

162

RBI

179

.1790

OBP

.2204

SLG

.2320

OPS

.4524

Pitching

G (P)

544

348th-most career G (P)

307

334th-most career GS

155

246th-most career W

141

210th-most career L

140

257th-most career CG

SHO

396th-most career SHO

2,644

216th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,085

494th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,031

107th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.163

WHIP

1.4470

K/9

3.69

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
1928-04-21	ATH @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	1	2	6
1931-09-19	CWS @ ATH Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	2	5
1929-05-15	ATH @ DET Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	1	1	5
1923-09-03	NYY @ ATH Gameday	4	0	4	0	0	0	0	4
1930-08-24	ATH @ MIN Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	0	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1925-09-12	NYY @ ATH Gameday	9.0	9	7	5	3	8	2
1927-06-17	CWS @ ATH Gameday	9.0	8	3	3	1	7	1
1927-08-03	CLE @ ATH Gameday	9.0	8	4	2	6	7	1
1927-08-19	ATH @ CLE Gameday	9.0	7	3	1	3	7	0
1927-09-17	BAL @ ATH Gameday	9.0	9	6	5	1	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.