Bob Feller Career

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by BobC

First off John, did you know that when asked about facing all other pitchers, Ted Williams said Allie Reynolds makes him start thinking about facing him 24 hours because he does so, but that Bob Feller had him thinking about facing him a full three days before he he did. Feller was that good and got into his head that much that.

And now that I've fulfilled my obligation to discuss Bob Feller and his career in some manner in this post, I can now not be rude and respond to your question, brought up from earlier conversations in this thread surrounding some discourse others may feel is inappropriately off-topic, whatever their warped, myopic or mistaken reasoning.

For Ruth, he played his first six seasons in Boston, primarily as a pitcher. During that time his batting stats were as follows:

G 391
PA 1332
AB 1110
R 202
H 342
2B 82
3B 30
HR 49
RBI 224
SB 13
CS 0
BB 190
SO 184
BA .308
OBP .413
SLG .568

And his offensive WAR just from batting over these six seasons with Boston was 19.2, with the biggest contribution coming in his last year in Boston, 1919, when he played in a total of 130 games that year, only appearing in 17 of those games as a pitcher, and putting up a 9.1 WAR. Commensurately for pitching, for those same six seasons he put up a pitching WAR of 20.5, with 1916 being his best when posted an 8.8 pitching WAR.

Yeah 1919 was his Ohtani year. Oh no, I just brought up a MODERN player on this thread. Back to Feller, here is a card.

[G1911]

Technically, I think it is okay to mention a modern player, because the direct query in the OP is about Feller's rating, and thus necessitates the invocation of other names in order to establish Feller's empirical rank, as long as that rank aligns with his exact opinion, otherwise we will be called mentally disabled again. As long as the central question is Feller's rank and the modern player is used to justify a correct position on that issue, it should be within the tight constraints of not having that terrible foible of human conversation, of evolving.

Anyways here's a Feller I got for $5 a few years ago. It's one of the super prints in this issue but a great pose and career contemporary card for dirt cheap. This and the 1956 Topps are his best 'bang for the buck' cards in my eyes.

Disclosure: I have no clue what my blood pressure is today.