Bill Cox
St. Louis Cardinals 1936; Chicago White Sox 1937–1938; St. Louis Browns 1938–1940
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
| 1937 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .400 | .250 | .650 | 82.8 | 68.3 | .335 | 0.7 |
| 1938 | 31 | 20 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .053 | .100 | .105 | .205 | -60.1 | -49.1 | .103 | -0.9 |
| 1939 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -120.0 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
| 1940 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.1 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.7 | 6.75 | 1.875 | 3.38 | 3.42 | 85.7 | 59.1 | -0.1 |
| 1937 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 12.7 | 0.71 | 1.105 | 5.68 | 3.05 | 66.7 | 643.3 | 0.7 |
| 1938 | 29 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 92 | 58 | 48 | 21 | 8 | 74.7 | 6.99 | 1.875 | 2.53 | 5.87 | 119.5 | 70.3 | -0.9 |
| 1939 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 9.3 | 9.64 | 1.929 | 7.71 | 3.99 | 83.4 | 49.7 | -0.4 |
| 1940 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 17.3 | 7.27 | 2.019 | 3.63 | 6.44 | 142.5 | 62.2 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-08-09 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1937-09-21 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1936-04-14 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-04-15 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-04-16 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-09-27 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 3.0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 1938-09-04 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 7.0 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1937-09-21 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 6.2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1937-09-29 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 5.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1938-08-09 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 7.0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 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.