Bill Dawley
Houston Astros 1983–1985; Chicago White Sox 1986; St. Louis Cardinals 1987; Philadelphia Phillies 1988; Oakland Athletics 1989
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 48 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .222 | .222 | .444 | 20.1 | 27.6 | .207 | 1.4 |
| 1984 | 60 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .556 | .889 | 154.9 | 154.3 | .399 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 49 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .273 | .200 | .473 | 40.0 | 37.0 | .237 | 0.8 |
| 1986 | 46 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -123.8 | -100.0 | .000 | 2.0 |
| 1987 | 60 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .286 | .167 | .452 | 31.7 | 23.7 | .237 | 0.6 |
| 1988 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -1.0 |
| 1989 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 48 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 25 | 22 | 60 | 9 | 79.7 | 2.82 | .916 | 6.78 | 3.50 | 102.0 | 121.6 | 1.4 |
| 1984 | 60 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 82 | 21 | 35 | 47 | 5 | 98.0 | 1.93 | 1.194 | 4.32 | 3.57 | 105.6 | 175.3 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 49 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 32 | 37 | 48 | 7 | 81.0 | 3.56 | 1.395 | 5.33 | 3.93 | 112.7 | 98.0 | 0.8 |
| 1986 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 91 | 36 | 28 | 66 | 10 | 97.7 | 3.32 | 1.218 | 6.08 | 3.66 | 85.7 | 128.9 | 2.0 |
| 1987 | 60 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 93 | 48 | 38 | 65 | 15 | 96.7 | 4.47 | 1.355 | 6.05 | 4.75 | 115.4 | 92.1 | 0.6 |
| 1988 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 8.7 | 13.50 | 2.308 | 3.12 | 7.90 | 222.7 | 26.3 | -1.0 |
| 1989 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9.0 | 4.00 | 1.444 | 3.00 | 3.18 | 85.8 | 92.8 | 0.1 |
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984-07-20 | WSH @ HOU Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1987-05-28 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1983-09-02 | HOU @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1984-08-10 | HOU @ CIN Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1984-08-17 | HOU @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987-06-16 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 5.2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1987-07-26 | STL @ SF Gameday | 3.0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1986-06-03 | TEX @ CWS Gameday | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 1987-05-28 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 4.2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| 1983-08-06 | HOU @ SF Gameday | 4.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.