Bob Caruthers played 10 seasons (1884–1893) for St. Louis Cardinals, LAD, STL and 2 other clubs. Career regular-season line: a 218–99 record, 900 strikeouts and a 2.83 ERA. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 1886.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
Cross-sport prominence: 98.7th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 KMLB Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsMLB Career Arc TypesMLB Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesMLB Clutch Delta — Who Rises in OctoberMLB Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeMLB Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustMLB Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One Scale
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Bio, rosters, and year-by-year/career stat splits come directly from MLB's own official public StatsAPI.
Fan Rating
Rate Bob Caruthers — All-Time
9 seasons · peak 24.3 in 1886 · league-best seasons: 1886, 1887
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
47.7 career wins over 9 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1886 · +9.3 wins
Latest season · 1892 · +1.3 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Bob Caruthers led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Early Bloomer
Peaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot. Peak 1886, 9 rated seasons.
Where Bob Caruthers ranks on StatVault's all-time league-relative boards (park-unadjusted; 100 = league average that season).
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Wore 4 distinct franchise crests across 10 seasons (1884–1893) — a true nomad. The crest trail: