Bill Baker
Cincinnati Reds 1940–1941; Pittsburgh Pirates 1941–1943; Pittsburgh Pirates 1946; St. Louis Cardinals 1948–1949
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 27 | 73 | 69 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | .217 | .260 | .261 | .521 | 40.8 | 45.3 | .246 | -0.1 |
| 1941 | 37 | 82 | 68 | 5 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .221 | .338 | .265 | .602 | 78.0 | 70.3 | .304 | 0.3 |
| 1942 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .118 | .167 | .118 | .284 | -31.6 | -17.0 | .147 | -0.1 |
| 1943 | 63 | 198 | 172 | 12 | 47 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 26 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 0 | .273 | .365 | .360 | .726 | 111.3 | 106.7 | .354 | 1.4 |
| 1946 | 53 | 127 | 113 | 7 | 27 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .239 | .312 | .301 | .613 | 69.2 | 71.5 | .299 | 0.3 |
| 1948 | 45 | 134 | 119 | 13 | 35 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .294 | .373 | .395 | .768 | 107.4 | 104.8 | .359 | 0.9 |
| 1949 | 20 | 32 | 30 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .188 | .167 | .354 | -15.3 | -5.3 | .173 | -0.3 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-05-03 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 1948-07-22 | SF @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 1943-07-22 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1948-08-28 | SF @ STL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1948-07-16 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-04-16 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-18 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-22 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-25 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-26 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.