Rube Bressler

Raymond Bloom Bressler

Positions: Leftfielder, First Baseman and Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 187 lb.

Born: October 23, 1894 in Coder, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: April 24, 1914
Teams (by GP): Reds/Robins/Athletics/Phillies/Cardinals 1914-1932

Final Game: July 17, 1932
Died: November 7, 1966 in Mount Washington, OH
Buried: Mount Moriah Cemetery, Withamsville, OH
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Standard Pitching

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	Awards
1913	18	HRB	B	15	13	.536	3.71	36	30					240.1	232	115	99		78							1.290	8.7		2.9			HRB · TRIS
1914	19	PHA	AL	10	4	.714	1.77	29	10	15	8	1	2	147.2	112	37	29	1	56	96	4	0	3	569	148	1.138	6.8	0.1	3.4	5.9	1.71
1915	20	PHA	AL	4	17	.190	5.20	32	20	8	7	1	0	178.1	183	133	103	3	118	69	7	0	7	771	56	1.688	9.2	0.2	6.0	3.5	0.58
1916	21	NHV,NWK	B,AA	7	11	.389		22						158.0	120				56							1.114	6.8		3.2			NHV,NWK · EL,IL
1916	21	PHA	AL	0	2	.000	6.60	4	2	2	0	0	0	15.0	16	11	11	0	14	8	2	0	1	70	45	2.000	9.6	0.0	8.4	4.8	0.57
1917	22	ATA	A	25	15	.625	2.35	46						326.0	225	122	85		92							0.972	6.2		2.5			ATA · SOUA
1917	22	CIN	NL	0	0		6.00	2	1	1	0	0	0	9.0	15	11	6	0	5	2	0	0	0	44	46	2.222	15.0	0.0	5.0	2.0	0.40
1918	23	CIN	NL	8	5	.615	2.46	17	13	3	10	0	0	128.0	124	48	35	3	39	37	1	0	1	532	109	1.273	8.7	0.2	2.7	2.6	0.95
1919	24	CIN	NL	2	4	.333	3.46	13	4	7	1	0	0	41.2	37	19	16	1	8	13	0	0	1	163	82	1.080	8.0	0.2	1.7	2.8	1.63
1920	25	CIN	NL	2	0	1.000	1.77	10	2	6	1	1	0	20.1	24	8	4	0	2	4	0	0	0	86	176	1.279	10.6	0.0	0.9	1.8	2.00
7 Yrs				26	32	.448	3.40	107	52	42	27	3	2	540.0	511	267	204	8	242	229	14	0	13	2235	82	1.394	8.5	0.1	4.0	3.8	0.95
162 Game Avg.				11	14	.448	3.40	46	22	18	12	1	1	231	219	114	87	3	103	98	6	0	6	956	82	1.394	8.5	0.1	4.0	3.8	0.95

CIN (4 yrs)				12	9	.571	2.76	42	20	17	12	1	0	199.0	200	86	61	4	54	56	1	0	2	825	100	1.276	9.0	0.2	2.4	2.5	1.04
PHA (3 yrs)				14	23	.378	3.77	65	32	25	15	2	2	341.0	311	181	143	4	188	173	13	0	11	1410	74	1.463	8.2	0.1	5.0	4.6	0.92

NL (4 yrs)				12	9	.571	2.76	42	20	17	12	1	0	199.0	200	86	61	4	54	56	1	0	2	825	100	1.276	9.0	0.2	2.4	2.5	1.04
AL (3 yrs)				14	23	.378	3.77	65	32	25	15	2	2	341.0	311	181	143	4	188	173	13	0	11	1410	74	1.463	8.2	0.1	5.0	4.6	0.92

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	IP	G	GS	R	RA9	RA9opp	RA9def	RA9role	PPFp	RA9avg	RAA	WAA	gmLI	WAAadj	WAR	RAR	waaWL%	162WL%	Salary
1914	19	PHA	AL	147.2	29	10	37	2.26	3.50	0.08	0.00	95.0	3.25	18	2.3	1.0	-0.1	3.5	30	.578	.514	$
1915	20	PHA	AL	178.1	32	20	133	6.71	4.02	-0.42	0.00	99.0	4.40	-45	-4.5	1.0	-0.2	-3.0	-28	.360	.472	$
1916	21	PHA	AL	15.0	4	2	11	6.60	3.79	-0.40	0.00	101.0	4.23	-4	-0.4	1.0	-0.0	-0.3	-3	.393	.497	$
1917	22	CIN	NL	9.0	2	1	11	11.00	3.48	-0.18	0.00	96.0	3.52	-7	-0.6	1.0	-0.0	-0.6	-7	.193	.496	$
1918	23	CIN	NL	128.2	17	13	48	3.36	3.55	-0.08	0.00	97.3	3.53	2	0.3	1.0	-0.1	1.1	10	.518	.502	$
1919	24	CIN	NL	41.2	13	4	19	4.10	3.46	0.30	0.00	97.2	3.07	-5	-0.5	1.0	-0.0	-0.3	-2	.459	.497	$
1920	25	CIN	NL	20.1	10	2	8	3.54	3.91	0.17	0.00	96.3	3.60	0	0.0	1.0	-0.0	0.2	2	.502	.500	$
7 Seasons				540.2	107	52	267	4.44	3.70	-0.12	0.00	97.3	3.72	-41	-3.5	1.0	-0.5	0.6	1	.468	.497	$

CIN (4 yrs)				199.2	42	20	86	3.88	3.56	0.02	0.00	97.1	3.44	-9	-0.8	1.0	-0.2	0.4	3	.481	.499	$
PHA (3 yrs)				341.0	65	32	181	4.78	3.79	-0.20	0.00	97.4	3.89	-31	-2.6	1.0	-0.3	0.2	-2	.459	.495	$

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	IP%
1918	23	CIN	NL	532	0.6%	7.0%	7.3%	3.4%	15%	82%
1919	24	CIN	NL	163	0.6%	8.0%	4.9%	1.8%	8%	83%
1920	25	CIN	NL	86	0.0%	4.7%	2.3%	1.2%	4%	88%
3 Yrs				781	0.5%	6.9%	6.3%	2.8%	12%	83%
MLB Averages					1.0%	7.5%	7.7%	3.0%	12%	80%

Cumulative Pitching

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	ERA+
1914	19	10	4	.714	1.77	29	10	15	8	1	2	147.2	112	37	29	1	56	96	4	3	569	148	1.138	6.8	0.1	3.4	5.9	1.71	148
1915	20	14	21	.400	3.64	61	30	23	15	2	2	326.0	295	170	132	4	174	165	11	10	1340	76	1.439	8.1	0.1	4.8	4.6	0.95	76
1916	21	14	23	.378	3.77	65	32	25	15	2	2	341.0	311	181	143	4	188	173	13	11	1410	74	1.463	8.2	0.1	5.0	4.6	0.92	74
1917	22	14	23	.378	3.83	67	33	26	15	2	2	350.0	326	192	149	4	193	175	13	11	1454	73	1.483	8.4	0.1	5.0	4.5	0.91	73
1918	23	22	28	.440	3.46	84	46	29	25	2	2	478.0	450	240	184	7	232	212	14	12	1986	80	1.427	8.5	0.1	4.4	4.0	0.91	80
1919	24	24	32	.429	3.46	97	50	36	26	2	2	519.2	487	259	200	8	240	225	14	13	2149	80	1.399	8.4	0.1	4.2	3.9	0.94	80
1920	25	26	32	.448	3.40	107	52	42	27	3	2	540.0	511	267	204	8	242	229	14	13	2235	82	1.394	8.5	0.1	4.0	3.8	0.95	82

Neutralized Pitching

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Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	WHIP	H/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	HR/9	Gact
1914	19	10	4	.714	2.67	128.0	130	42	38	1	65	83	5	1.523	9.1	4.6	5.8	1.28	0.1	29
1915	20	4	13	.235	7.03	155.0	203	134	121	3	131	60	8	2.155	11.8	7.6	3.5	0.46	0.2	32
1916	21	0	1	.000	10.50	12.0	18	16	14	0	16	7	2	2.833	13.5	12.0	5.3	0.44	0.0	4
1917	22	0	0		10.29	7.0	18	9	8	0	6	2	0	3.429	23.1	7.7	2.6	0.33	0.0	2
1918	23	9	7	.563	3.41	148.0	177	62	56	4	56	43	1	1.574	10.8	3.4	2.6	0.77	0.2	17
1919	24	2	2	.500	4.70	44.0	48	26	23	1	10	14	0	1.318	9.8	2.0	2.9	1.40	0.2	13
1920	25	1	1	.500	2.14	21.0	26	6	5	0	2	4	0	1.333	11.1	0.9	1.7	2.00	0.0	10
7 Yrs		26	28	.481	4.63	515.0	620	295	265	9	286	213	16	1.759	10.8		3.7	0.74	0.2	107

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1924 NL (14, 8%) 0.08 Career Shares (972nd)	Win-Loss % s c a p y 1918 NL .615 (8th)	Home Runs s c a p y 1918 NL 3 (10th)	Bases on Balls s c a p y 1915 AL 118 (5th)
Losses s c a p y 1915 AL 17 (4th)	Earned Runs s c a p y 1915 AL 103 (2nd)	Wild Pitches s c a p y 1915 AL 7 (7th)	Games Finished s c a p y 1914 AL 15 (5th)
Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y 1914 AL 15 (6th)	Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y 1914 AL 1.8 (6th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Pitching - 3 (2136), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 2 (1697), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 7 (1122), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

Similar Pitchers

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Most Similar by Ages

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Jack Bentley (962) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Earl Hamilton (975) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Dick Ellsworth (974) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
John Henry Johnson (982) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Bill Travers (983) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Marcelino Lopez (977) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Vern Olsen (973) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

* - Signifies Hall of Famer

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