Bill Bailey
St. Louis Browns 1907–1912; Baltimore Terrapins 1914–1915; Chicago Whales 1915; Detroit Tigers 1918; St. Louis Cardinals 1921–1922
Percentile snapshot
1915 season — qualified pitchers
of 126 qualified 1915 pitchers (min 155 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | 6 | 21 | 20 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .150 | .150 | .150 | .300 | -11.7 | -3.6 | .145 | 0.4 |
| 1908 | 22 | 38 | 34 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .088 | .139 | .088 | .227 | -25.6 | -25.0 | .123 | -0.2 |
| 1909 | 38 | 82 | 77 | 1 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 20 | 1 | 0 | .286 | .313 | .325 | .637 | 99.9 | 103.0 | .310 | 2.6 |
| 1910 | 34 | 68 | 63 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 1 | 0 | .206 | .254 | .206 | .460 | 45.7 | 46.3 | .233 | -0.3 |
| 1911 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -107.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 1912 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .667 | .500 | 1.167 | 244.1 | 237.3 | .577 | -0.6 |
| 1914 | 19 | 49 | 43 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .163 | .250 | .186 | .436 | 27.2 | 24.9 | .226 | 1.4 |
| 1915 | 41 | 85 | 74 | 5 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 1 | 0 | .230 | .269 | .243 | .512 | 46.9 | 50.9 | .252 | -1.1 |
| 1918 | 8 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .077 | .077 | .154 | .231 | -55.7 | -29.6 | .107 | -1.4 |
| 1921 | 19 | 23 | 22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .130 | .091 | .221 | -49.6 | -40.0 | .113 | 0.1 |
| 1922 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .286 | .286 | .571 | 47.0 | 50.8 | .265 | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 39 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 0 | 48.3 | 2.42 | 1.117 | 3.17 | 2.82 | 112.6 | 103.4 | 0.4 |
| 1908 | 22 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 85 | 36 | 50 | 42 | 2 | 106.7 | 3.04 | 1.266 | 3.54 | 3.20 | 137.1 | 76.8 | -0.2 |
| 1909 | 32 | 20 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 174 | 54 | 75 | 114 | 2 | 199.0 | 2.44 | 1.251 | 5.16 | 2.49 | 102.9 | 99.2 | 2.6 |
| 1910 | 34 | 20 | 3 | 18 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 186 | 71 | 97 | 90 | 2 | 192.3 | 3.32 | 1.471 | 4.21 | 3.12 | 127.3 | 73.7 | -0.3 |
| 1911 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 42 | 16 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 31.7 | 4.55 | 1.832 | 2.27 | 4.52 | 136.5 | 72.9 | -0.3 |
| 1912 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 10.7 | 9.28 | 2.344 | 1.69 | 5.39 | 163.8 | 35.4 | -0.6 |
| 1914 | 19 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 106 | 44 | 68 | 131 | 2 | 128.7 | 3.08 | 1.352 | 9.16 | 2.63 | 81.9 | 104.1 | 1.4 |
| 1915 | 41 | 28 | 9 | 20 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 202 | 106 | 125 | 122 | 9 | 223.7 | 4.27 | 1.462 | 4.91 | 3.72 | 122.8 | 71.1 | -1.1 |
| 1918 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 53 | 25 | 26 | 13 | 0 | 37.7 | 5.97 | 2.097 | 3.11 | 3.62 | 134.3 | 45.1 | -1.4 |
| 1921 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 95 | 35 | 22 | 20 | 1 | 74.0 | 4.26 | 1.581 | 2.43 | 3.60 | 96.4 | 87.7 | 0.1 |
| 1922 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 19 | 23 | 11 | 1 | 31.7 | 5.40 | 1.926 | 3.13 | 4.97 | 126.2 | 72.9 | -0.2 |
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
Pitching
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 | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909-09-30 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1909-08-06 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1910-07-09 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1909-07-16 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1918-07-10 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909-08-30 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
| 1908-08-18 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 12.0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 0 |
| 1910-05-30 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| 1909-07-16 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 10.0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1909-09-21 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 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.