Bill Beckmann
Philadelphia Athletics 1939–1942; St. Louis Cardinals 1942
Percentile snapshot
1939 season — qualified pitchers
of 94 qualified 1939 pitchers (min 153 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 27 | 60 | 52 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .278 | .250 | .528 | 32.8 | 35.5 | .250 | 0.4 |
| 1940 | 34 | 42 | 39 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .205 | .205 | .205 | .410 | -4.1 | 6.7 | .187 | 1.5 |
| 1941 | 22 | 54 | 47 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .191 | .240 | .213 | .453 | 14.8 | 20.4 | .220 | 0.7 |
| 1942 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .500 | .600 | 1.100 | 213.9 | 212.3 | .507 | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 27 | 19 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 198 | 93 | 41 | 20 | 15 | 155.3 | 5.39 | 1.539 | 1.16 | 4.95 | 106.4 | 86.2 | 0.4 |
| 1940 | 34 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 132 | 59 | 35 | 47 | 11 | 127.3 | 4.17 | 1.312 | 3.32 | 4.16 | 94.8 | 105.2 | 1.5 |
| 1941 | 22 | 15 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 141 | 66 | 33 | 28 | 11 | 130.0 | 4.57 | 1.338 | 1.94 | 4.24 | 101.8 | 91.1 | 0.7 |
| 1942 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 27.3 | 5.27 | 1.390 | 4.28 | 3.10 | 84.4 | 69.3 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-07-20 | ATH @ CLE Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1940-09-17 | ATH @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1939-07-25 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1941-07-24 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1941-07-16 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-08-21 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1941-09-01 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1940-08-15 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 8.0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1940-09-02 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 8.0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| 1940-09-13 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 8.0 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 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.