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Bob Skinner

Robert Ralph Skinner

Positions: Leftfielder and First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: October 3, 1931 in La Jolla, CA
High School: La Jolla (La Jolla, CA)
Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent in 1951. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 13, 1954
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Cardinals/Reds 1954-1966

Final Game: September 24, 1966
Relatives: Father of Joel Skinner
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 10, 2012, 12:20AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #894. Chris Hoiles… #895. Fred Luderus… #896. Mike Mitchell… #897. BOB SKINNER… #898. Steve O'Neill… #899. Buck Weaver… #900. Todd Hundley… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1954 22 PIT NL 132 530 470 67 117 15 9 8 46 4 0 47 59 .249 .316 .370 .686 80 174 11 0 11 2 *3/
1956 24 PIT NL 113 262 233 29 47 8 3 5 29 1 1 26 50 .202 .282 .326 .609 66 76 6 1 0 2 1 3/5
1957 25 PIT NL 126 431 387 58 118 12 6 13 45 10 4 38 50 .305 .370 .468 .838 127 181 2 2 4 0 6 /35
1958 26 PIT NL 144 596 529 93 170 33 9 13 70 12 4 58 55 .321 .387 .491 .879 134 260 11 2 2 5 7 * AS,MVP-15
1959 27 PIT NL 143 617 547 78 153 18 4 13 61 10 7 67 65 .280 .357 .399 .756 102 218 6 0 1 2 8 */3
1960 28 PIT NL 145 640 571 83 156 33 6 15 86 11 8 59 86 .273 .340 .431 .771 109 246 13 1 5 4 11 * AS
1961 29 PIT NL 119 442 381 61 102 20 3 3 42 3 5 51 49 .268 .358 .360 .718 91 137 6 4 4 2 9
1962 30 PIT NL 144 597 510 87 154 29 7 20 75 10 4 76 89 .302 .395 .504 .899 139 257 9 4 4 3 5 * MVP-22
1963 31 TOT NL 106 354 316 43 82 15 7 3 25 5 3 34 64 .259 .335 .380 .715 104 120 11 2 2 0 2 7
1963 31 PIT NL 34 137 122 18 33 5 5 0 8 4 1 13 22 .270 .341 .393 .734 110 48 5 0 2 0 1 7
1963 31 CIN NL 72 217 194 25 49 10 2 3 17 1 2 21 42 .253 .332 .371 .703 100 72 6 2 0 0 1 7
1964 32 TOT NL 80 192 177 16 45 8 0 4 21 0 0 15 32 .254 .313 .367 .680 86 65 1 0 0 0 2 97
1964 32 CIN NL 25 63 59 6 13 3 0 3 5 0 0 4 12 .220 .270 .424 .694 90 25 1 0 0 0 0 7
1964 32 STL NL 55 129 118 10 32 5 0 1 16 0 0 11 20 .271 .333 .339 .672 84 40 0 0 0 0 2 9/7
1965 33 STL NL 80 164 152 25 47 5 4 5 26 1 0 12 30 .309 .360 .493 .853 129 75 5 0 0 0 2
1966 34 STL NL 49 48 45 2 7 1 0 1 5 0 0 2 17 .156 .208 .244 .453 26 11 0 1 0 0 0
12 Seasons 1381 4873 4318 642 1198 197 58 103 531 67 36 485 646 .277 .351 .421 .773 108 1820 81 17 33 20 53
162 Game Avg. 162 572 507 75 141 23 7 12 62 8 4 57 76 .277 .351 .421 .773 108 213 10 2 4 2
PIT (9 yrs) 1100 4252 3750 574 1050 173 52 90 462 65 34 435 525 .280 .355 .426 .781 109 1597 69 14 33 20 48
STL (3 yrs) 184 341 315 37 86 11 4 7 47 1 0 25 67 .273 .328 .400 .728 97 126 5 1 0 0 4
CIN (2 yrs) 97 280 253 31 62 13 2 6 22 1 2 25 54 .245 .318 .383 .701 98 97 7 2 0 0 1

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1954 22 PIT NL 530 -14 0 2 0 -7 -5 18 -6 -0.6 1 0.1 -0.7 $ *3/
1956 24 PIT NL 262 -11 -1 -1 1 -4 -3 9 -10 -1.1 -6 -0.6 -0.5 $ 3/5
1957 25 PIT NL 431 11 1 3 2 4 -5 15 32 3.3 27 2.7 0.6 $ /35
1958 26 PIT NL 596 25 2 0 1 -2 -7 20 39 4.1 41 4.2 -0.1 $ * AS,MVP-15
1959 27 PIT NL 617 4 -1 1 3 3 -7 20 23 2.4 20 2.1 0.3 $ */3
1960 28 PIT NL 640 6 -1 1 1 -4 -8 20 15 1.6 19 2.0 -0.4 $ * AS
1961 29 PIT NL 442 -4 -3 0 1 -2 -6 15 1 0.1 3 0.3 -0.2 $
1962 30 PIT NL 597 31 2 -3 2 -11 -8 20 33 3.5 44 4.5 -1.0 $ * MVP-22
1963 31 PIT NL 137 1 2 2 0 1 -2 5 9 1.0 8 0.9 0.1 $ 7
1963 31 CIN NL 217 1 -1 0 -1 -2 -3 8 2 0.2 4 0.4 -0.2 $ 7
1964 32 CIN NL 63 -1 0 1 0 -0 -1 2 1 0.1 1 0.1 0.0 $ 7
1964 32 STL NL 129 -3 0 1 1 -3 -1 5 0 -0.1 3 0.3 -0.4 $ 9/7
1965 33 STL NL 164 6 1 1 0 -3 -2 6 8 0.9 12 1.3 -0.4 $
1966 34 STL NL 48 -4 0 0 0 0 0 2 -2 -0.3 -2 -0.2 -0.1 $
12 Seasons 4873 48 1 8 11 -29 -58 165 145 15.1 175 18.1 -3.0 $
PIT (9 yrs) 4252 49 1 5 11 -21 -51 142 136 14.3 157 16.2 -1.9 $
STL (3 yrs) 341 -1 1 2 1 -6 -3 13 6 0.5 13 1.4 -0.9 $
CIN (2 yrs) 280 0 -1 1 -1 -2 -4 10 3 0.3 5 0.5 -0.2 $

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1960 28 PIT NL WS NYY W 2 8 5 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 .200 .429 .200 .629 1 0 1 1 0 0
1964 32 STL NL WS NYY W 4 4 3 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 .667 .750 1.000 1.750 3 0 0 0 0 1
2 Seasons (2 Series) 6 12 8 2 3 1 0 0 2 1 0 2 0 .375 .545 .500 1.045 4 0 1 1 0 1
2 WS 6 12 8 2 3 1 0 0 2 1 0 2 0 .375 .545 .500 1.045 4 0 1 1 0 1

Standard Fielding

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Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1954 PIT NL 22 1B 118 1126 1026 84 16 87 .986 -5 9.41 .991 9.75
1954 PIT NL 22 OF 2 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0.00 2.35
1954 PIT NL 22 RF 2 2 1 15.0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 -144 0.00 0.00 1.98 1.95
1956 PIT NL 24 OF 36 43 40 2 1 0 .977 -4 1.17 .977 2.25
1956 PIT NL 24 1B 23 183 176 6 1 21 .995 -1 7.91 .989 9.72
1956 PIT NL 24 3B 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .960 3.00
1956 PIT NL 24 LF 26 21 12 170.0 25 23 1 1 0 .960 -2 -16 1.27 0.92 .973 2.07 2.05
1956 PIT NL 24 RF 10 9 4 58.0 9 8 1 0 0 1.000 -1 -27 1.40 0.90 .974 1.99 1.97
1957 PIT NL 25 OF 93 188 172 9 7 2 .963 5 1.95 .980 2.31
1957 PIT NL 25 1B 9 67 60 6 1 7 .985 -0 7.33 .990 9.73
1957 PIT NL 25 3B 1 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 -0 2.00 .950 3.00
1957 PIT NL 25 LF 93 83 72 743.2 190 173 10 7 2 .963 5 8 2.21 1.97 .978 2.03 2.05
1958 PIT NL 26 OF 141 257 232 19 6 2 .977 -2 1.78 .980 2.25 AS,MVP-15
1958 PIT NL 26 LF 141 141 109 1190.1 258 234 18 6 2 .977 -2 -2 1.91 1.79 .975 2.01 2.00 AS,MVP-15
1959 PIT NL 27 OF 142 305 285 9 11 1 .964 3 2.07 .977 2.19
1959 PIT NL 27 1B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 9.50
1959 PIT NL 27 LF 141 141 136 1254.2 307 287 9 11 1 .964 3 2 2.12 2.10 .971 2.04 2.02
1960 PIT NL 28 OF 141 268 250 13 5 2 .981 -4 1.87 .978 2.20 AS
1960 PIT NL 28 LF 141 140 122 1228.1 254 236 13 5 2 .980 -4 -4 1.82 1.77 .974 1.98 1.97 AS
1961 PIT NL 29 OF 97 185 175 5 5 1 .973 -2 1.86 .977 2.14
1961 PIT NL 29 LF 97 96 90 843.0 182 173 4 5 1 .973 -2 -2 1.89 1.82 .973 1.88 1.86
1962 PIT NL 30 OF 139 225 210 6 9 0 .960 -11 1.55 .974 2.05 MVP-22
1962 PIT NL 30 LF 139 138 104 1181.1 227 212 6 9 0 .960 -11 -11 1.66 1.57 .968 1.81 1.80 MVP-22
1963 TOT NL 31 LF 83 76 70 681.2 139 134 4 1 1 .993 -1 -1 1.82 1.66 .971 1.80 1.79
1963 TOT NL 31 OF 83 76 70 681.2 136 131 4 1 1 .993 -1 -1 1.78 1.63 .977 49.48 2.00
1963 PIT NL 31 LF 32 30 30 275.0 61 59 1 1 0 .984 1 5 1.96 1.88 .971 1.80 1.79
1963 PIT NL 31 OF 32 30 30 275.0 59 57 1 1 0 .983 1 5 1.90 1.81 .977 49.48 2.00
1963 CIN NL 31 LF 51 46 40 406.2 78 75 3 0 1 1.000 -2 -5 1.73 1.53 .971 1.80 1.79
1963 CIN NL 31 OF 51 46 40 406.2 77 74 3 0 1 1.000 -2 -5 1.70 1.51 .977 49.48 2.00
1964 TOT NL 32 OF 43 41 19 304.2 71 62 4 5 0 .930 -3 -12 1.95 1.53 .973 29.13 1.98
1964 TOT NL 32 LF 16 16 13 130.2 29 26 1 2 0 .931 -0 -1 1.86 1.69 .965 1.70 1.69
1964 CIN NL 32 LF 12 12 11 101.2 24 21 1 2 0 .917 -0 -5 1.95 1.83 .965 1.70 1.69
1964 CIN NL 32 OF 12 12 11 101.2 23 20 1 2 0 .913 -0 -5 1.86 1.75 .973 29.14 1.98
1964 STL NL 32 OF 31 29 8 203.0 48 42 3 3 0 .938 -3 -15 2.00 1.45 .973 29.13 1.98
1964 STL NL 32 RF 26 25 6 174.0 43 37 3 3 0 .930 -3 -20 2.07 1.54 .973 1.89 1.87
1964 STL NL 32 LF 4 4 2 29.0 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 0 12 1.55 1.25 .964 1.71 1.70
1965 STL NL 33 OF 33 46 43 0 3 0 .935 -3 1.30 .975 2.00
1965 STL NL 33 RF 18 15 9 124.0 24 23 0 1 0 .958 -2 -15 1.67 1.28 .975 1.95 1.95
1965 STL NL 33 LF 16 13 7 105.2 22 20 0 2 0 .909 -2 -19 1.70 1.25 .966 1.71 1.71
11 Seasons OF 950 117 89 986.1 1724 1600 71 53 9 .969 -23 -28 1.83 1.76 .977 43.20 2.16
10 Seasons LF 893 865 735 7529.1 1633 1518 66 49 9 .970 -16 -3 1.89 1.77 .973 1.94 1.93
4 Seasons 1B 151 1376 1262 96 18 115 .987 -6 8.99 .991 9.74
4 Seasons RF 56 51 20 371.0 76 68 4 4 0 .947 -8 -24 1.75 1.29 .974 1.93 1.92
2 Seasons 3B 2 3 1 2 0 0 1.000 -0 1.50 .953 3.00
12 Seasons TOT 1103 117 89 986.1 3103 2863 169 71 124 .977 -29 -36 1.83 2.75 .983 43.20 3.20
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
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Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
1958 (LF)
1960-1 (LF)
1960-2 (LF)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1958 NL (15, 5%)
1962 NL (22, 1%)
0.06 Career Shares (1057th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1958 NL  4.1 (10th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1958 NL  4.2 (7th)
1962 NL  4.5 (9th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1958 NL  .321 (5th)

On-Base% s c a p y
1958 NL  .387 (5th)
1962 NL  .395 (3rd)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1958 NL  .879 (7th)
1962 NL  .899 (8th)

At Bats s c a p y
1960 NL  571 (8th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1960 NL  640 (9th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1958 NL  93 (7th)

Hits s c a p y
1958 NL  170 (8th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1958 NL  260 (10th)

Doubles s c a p y
1958 NL  33 (6th)
1960 NL  33 (3rd)
1962 NL  29 (9th)

Triples s c a p y
1954 NL  9 (4th)
1958 NL  9 (7th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1960 NL  86 (9th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1959 NL  67 (10th)
1962 NL  76 (5th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1960 NL  86 (9th)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1958 NL  12 (9th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1958 NL  134 (7th)
1962 NL  139 (6th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1958 NL  102 (5th)
1962 NL  106 (10th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1958 NL  28 (8th)
1962 NL  31 (6th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1958 NL  2.7 (7th)
1962 NL  3.0 (6th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1958 NL  55 (9th)
1960 NL  54 (9th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1958 NL  230 (7th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1958 NL  .689 (6th)
1962 NL  .716 (6th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1954 NL  11 (10th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
1960 NL  11 (7th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1959 NL  7 (9th)
1960 NL  8 (9th)
1961 NL  5 (10th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1957 NL  11.3 (7th)
1958 NL  12.5 (6th)
1960 NL  12.7 (10th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1960 NL  445 (6th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
1958 NL  28.64 (9th)
1962 NL  41.65 (7th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1960 NL  2.7 (10th)
1962 NL  4.6 (5th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
1957 NL  2.6 (10th)
1962 NL  3.7 (6th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
1958 NL  2.8 (9th)
1962 NL  4.0 (7th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1954 NL  84 (5th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1954 NL  16 (2nd)

Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  893 (74th)

Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  1,518 (93rd)

Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  66 (57th)

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  49 (54th)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1958 NL  19 (2nd)
1960 NL  13 (5th)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1959 NL  11 (2nd)
1962 NL  9 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
1954 NL  9.93 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1954 NL  9.41 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as LF (s.1954)† s c a p y
1957 NL  2.21 (2nd)
1958 NL  1.91 (5th)
1959 NL  2.12 (5th)
1960 NL  1.82 (4th)
1961 NL  1.89 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1957 NL  1.97 (3rd)
1958 NL  1.79 (4th)
1959 NL  2.10 (2nd)
1960 NL  1.77 (2nd)
1961 NL  1.82 (2nd)
1962 NL  1.57 (5th)
1963 NL  1.66 (5th)

Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1958 NL  .977 (5th)
1960 NL  .980 (4th)
1961 NL  .973 (2nd)
1963 NL  .993 (2nd)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1963 NL  .993 (5th)


† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 29 (805), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 18 (860), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 12 (1359), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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