Bill Byrd

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 210 lb

BornJuly 15, 1907 · Canton, GA, USA

Final gameSeptember 27, 1949

Seasons15 (1933–1948)

Columbus Blue Birds 1933; Cleveland Red Sox 1934; Columbus Elite Giants 1935; Washington Elite Giants 1936–1937; Baltimore Elite Giants 1938–1939; Baltimore Elite Giants 1941–1943; Philadelphia Stars 1943; Baltimore Elite Giants 1944; Philadelphia Stars 1944; Baltimore Elite Giants 1945–1948

Percentile snapshot

1948 season — qualified pitchers

19.4

13.9

37.5

88.9

52.8

SHO

104

83.3

91.7

95.8

52.8

90.3

123.3

22.2

ERA

1.90

97.2

WHIP

1.022

100

K/9

5.76

91.7

FIP

2.64

98.6

FIP-

74.5

98.6

ERA+

187.0

97.2

sWAR

4.1

81.9

of 73 qualified 1948 pitchers (min 73 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

125.7

94.5

sWAR

31.5

96.8

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1933	17	54	50	3	6	1	0	1	5	2	1	0	.120	.154	.200	.354	4.7	-4.0	.163	0.7
1934	17	50	43	6	14	4	1	0	5	7	0	1	.326	.420	.465	.885	143.6	147.9	.419	-0.7
1935	18	44	36	7	12	0	0	3	10	6	0	0	.333	.429	.583	1.012	144.0	152.8	.448	0.5
1936	24	67	61	10	19	4	2	0	11	4	0	0	.311	.354	.443	.796	100.1	102.3	.363	2.7
1937	22	47	41	11	15	3	1	3	10	3	0	0	.366	.409	.707	1.116	165.5	181.5	.480	0.9
1938	21	62	56	8	13	3	0	1	9	4	0	0	.232	.283	.339	.623	67.3	63.7	.288	1.9
1939	17	47	44	8	17	5	0	3	15	3	1	0	.386	.426	.705	1.130	176.0	195.3	.498	2.6
1941	22	53	48	11	14	3	1	1	7	5	3	0	.292	.358	.458	.817	123.0	127.7	.376	3.7
1942	34	81	72	10	19	1	2	1	10	8	5	0	.264	.338	.375	.713	102.2	103.0	.342	2.1
1943	37	124	109	17	27	6	1	2	17	11	0	2	.248	.317	.376	.693	85.2	84.9	.331	4.1
1944	16	39	37	2	5	2	0	0	6	2	0	0	.135	.179	.189	.369	7.2	5.6	.180	2.0
1945	27	68	60	8	11	0	2	1	10	6	0	0	.183	.258	.300	.558	59.4	55.9	.270	2.8
1946	21	43	41	1	5	0	0	0	4	2	0	0	.122	.163	.122	.285	-8.2	-20.0	.147	0.5
1947	22	56	48	7	12	2	0	1	5	6	0	0	.250	.345	.354	.700	94.6	91.6	.339	3.4
1948	28	66	58	8	18	2	0	0	11	8	1	0	.310	.394	.345	.739	118.5	114.5	.363	4.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1933	13	11	3	8	1	8	0	104	45	12	33	2	95.0	4.26	1.221	3.13	3.84	89.1	101.1	0.7
1934	11	9	2	8	0	5	0	89	49	15	24	3	58.7	7.52	1.773	3.68	4.78	106.0	60.0	-0.7
1935	7	4	2	3	0	3	0	40	22	6	15	4	35.0	5.66	1.314	3.86	5.28	103.6	90.1	0.5
1936	16	10	9	4	1	5	2	102	39	23	41	3	96.0	3.66	1.302	3.84	4.35	85.2	139.7	2.7
1937	9	7	4	3	0	4	0	61	32	16	28	2	53.7	5.37	1.435	4.70	4.37	87.5	93.0	0.9
1938	13	9	7	2	1	7	0	85	36	21	30	3	83.3	3.89	1.272	3.24	4.50	89.1	130.0	1.9
1939	12	9	8	3	1	9	0	93	38	13	40	3	88.7	3.86	1.195	4.06	3.79	78.3	125.6	2.6
1941	15	12	9	3	2	10	2	79	25	18	62	2	101.0	2.23	.960	5.52	3.26	73.9	198.1	3.7
1942	17	11	8	3	2	7	1	91	37	26	48	5	96.3	3.46	1.215	4.48	3.83	97.7	113.5	2.1
1943	19	13	10	5	0	12	2	134	44	38	94	2	134.3	2.95	1.280	6.30	3.86	80.2	163.1	4.1
1944	12	9	6	5	0	7	2	76	24	17	58	1	78.0	2.77	1.192	6.69	3.19	73.9	155.8	2.0
1945	18	15	11	5	1	13	1	133	45	28	91	2	130.7	3.10	1.232	6.27	3.19	77.5	133.0	2.8
1946	15	11	4	7	2	6	0	91	40	11	39	7	80.3	4.48	1.270	4.37	4.34	98.3	98.5	0.5
1947	16	14	8	5	0	11	0	112	37	24	59	2	120.3	2.77	1.130	4.41	3.45	83.4	149.5	3.4
1948	17	12	10	4	0	11	0	104	26	22	79	2	123.3	1.90	1.022	5.76	2.64	74.5	187.0	4.1

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

343

901

804

117

207

RBI

135

.2575

OBP

.3231

SLG

.3905

OPS

.7136

Pitching

G (P)

210

156

101

118

336th-most career CG

SHO

1,375

SO (P)

741

BB allowed

290

ERA

3.529

470th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2250

236th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.85

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	TB
1934-07-22	CRS @ ND Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	3	7
1943-07-04	BEG @ NBY Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	5	7
1939-07-16	NYC @ BEG Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	1	4	7
1935-07-21	BEG @ NE Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	1	3	6
1937-06-22	TIC @ BEG Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	1	3	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1944-05-19	NBY @ BEG Gameday	9.0	9	4	4	1	13	0
1945-08-21	NYC @ BEG Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	0	13	0
1943-06-04	NYC @ BEG Gameday	9.0	6	3	3	3	11	0
1947-05-26	BEG @ NE Gameday	9.0	9	3	3	1	11	1
1947-08-19	HOM @ BEG Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	0	11	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.

Honors

7× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.