Bill Bernhard

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 205 lb

BornMarch 16, 1871 · Clarence, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 24, 1899

Final gameSeptember 27, 1907

Seasons9 (1899–1907)

Philadelphia Phillies 1899–1900; Philadelphia Athletics 1901; Cleveland Bronchos 1902; Philadelphia Athletics 1902; Cleveland Naps 1903–1907

Percentile snapshot

1906 season — qualified pitchers

60.2

64.8

29.5

59.1

SHO

40.9

235

31.8

70.5

39.8

62.5

255.3

60.2

ERA

2.54

51.1

WHIP

1.104

73.9

K/9

3.00

21.6

FIP

2.47

62.5

FIP-

92.9

61.4

ERA+

104.8

51.1

sWAR

3.1

61.4

of 89 qualified 1906 pitchers (min 157 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.3

50.9

sWAR

18.6

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1899	21	56	54	5	13	1	0	2	2	7	1	.241	.268	.259	.527	48.4	44.7	.256	2.9
1900	32	94	91	7	14	1	0	6	3	18	0	.154	.181	.165	.346	2.7	-4.3	.170	-0.7
1901	32	118	107	8	20	4	2	8	8	14	0	.187	.243	.262	.505	44.0	37.6	.243	0.6
1902	28	95	94	8	18	4	0	6	1	16	0	.191	.200	.234	.434	21.8	21.7	.202	5.2
1903	20	67	65	8	12	2	0	4	2	18	0	.185	.209	.215	.424	28.9	28.9	.200	3.1
1904	38	132	124	5	22	4	1	13	4	39	1	.177	.209	.226	.435	33.6	38.1	.209	4.8
1905	22	70	69	3	6	0	0	0	1	20	1	.087	.100	.087	.187	-46.7	-40.6	.093	-0.6
1906	31	108	99	4	21	1	1	12	7	30	0	.212	.264	.242	.507	59.9	59.6	.252	3.1
1907	8	15	15	2	3	1	0	0	0	2	0	.200	.200	.267	.467	41.2	49.6	.222	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1899	21	12	6	6	0	10	1	120	39	36	23	3	132.3	2.65	1.179	1.56	3.84	99.7	145.1	2.9
1900	32	27	15	10	2	20	0	284	116	74	49	3	218.7	4.77	1.637	2.02	3.64	98.6	77.4	-0.7
1901	31	27	17	10	0	26	1	328	129	50	58	6	257.0	4.52	1.471	2.03	3.37	89.0	84.0	0.6
1902	28	25	18	5	1	23	3	176	54	37	58	4	226.0	2.15	.942	2.31	3.08	88.7	161.5	5.2
1903	20	19	14	5	0	18	3	151	39	21	60	1	165.7	2.12	1.038	3.26	2.51	86.7	136.7	3.1
1904	38	37	23	13	0	35	4	323	76	55	137	3	320.7	2.13	1.179	3.85	2.32	90.4	120.5	4.8
1905	22	19	7	13	0	17	0	185	65	34	56	5	174.3	3.36	1.256	2.89	2.79	105.5	78.9	-0.6
1906	31	30	16	15	0	23	2	235	72	47	85	1	255.3	2.54	1.104	3.00	2.47	92.9	104.8	3.1
1907	8	4	0	4	0	3	0	58	15	11	19	0	42.0	3.21	1.643	4.07	2.22	88.8	77.9	0.0

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

232

755

718

129

RBI

164

.1797

OBP

.2115

SLG

.2159

OPS

.4274

Pitching

G (P)

231

200

116

474th-most career W

175

180th-most career CG

SHO

436th-most career SHO

1,792

SO (P)

545

BB allowed

365

ERA

3.039

186th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2416

298th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

2.74

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	RBI	BB	TB
1904-05-16	CLE @ BOS Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	2	1	5
1901-09-14	BAL @ ATH Gameday	4	0	2	1	1	1	0	5
1906-04-27	CLE @ DET Gameday	5	0	2	0	1	4	0	4
1901-09-25	BAL @ ATH Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	1	0	3
1903-06-10	CLE @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1904-08-11	ATH @ CLE Gameday	13.0	8	2	0	6	9	0
1904-09-23	NYY @ CLE Gameday	9.0	7	1	0	2	8	0
1902-09-05	ATH @ CLE Gameday	9.0	10	7	5	2	7	1
1904-04-22	CWS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	0	7	0
1905-08-16	CLE @ MIN Gameday	9.0	8	1	0	3	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.