MLB / Players

Bill Blair

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at5 ft 8 in · 172 lb
BornSeptember 17, 1863 · Pittsburgh, PA, USA
MLB debutJuly 19, 1888
Final gameSeptember 23, 1888
Seasons1 (1888–1888)

Philadelphia Athletics 1888

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
0.5
59

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1888414131410011400.308.357.385.742126.9137.3.3550.5

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
18884413030299816031.02.611.1944.652.5483.2117.00.5

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

G
4
PA
14
AB
13
R
1
H
4
2B
1
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
1
BB
1
SO
4
SB
0
BA
.3077
OBP
.3571
SLG
.3846
OPS
.7417

Pitching

G (P)
4
GS
4
W
1
L
3
SV
0
CG
3
SHO
0
IP
31
SO (P)
16
BB allowed
8
ERA
2.613
WHIP
1.1935
K/9
4.65

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.