Bill Butland
Boston Red Sox 1940; Boston Red Sox 1942; Boston Red Sox 1946–1947
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 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1942 | 23 | 37 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .036 | .229 | .036 | .264 | -10.2 | -24.1 | .180 | 2.7 |
| 1946 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 20.7 | 36.7 | .233 | -1.3 |
| 1947 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 21.0 | 5.57 | 1.762 | 2.14 | 3.88 | 86.1 | 80.8 | -0.1 |
| 1942 | 23 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 85 | 31 | 33 | 46 | 8 | 111.3 | 2.51 | 1.060 | 3.72 | 3.63 | 96.8 | 149.5 | 2.7 |
| 1946 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 20 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 16.3 | 11.02 | 2.204 | 5.51 | 6.00 | 163.5 | 33.3 | -1.3 |
| 1947 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 4.50 | 1.500 | 4.50 | 1.42 | 36.5 | 86.7 | 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-06-10 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1942-08-16 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1940-04-16 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-18 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-19 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-06-10 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 7.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1942-07-26 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 6.1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1942-08-16 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 1942-08-30 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 1942-08-20 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 6.2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
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.