Bill Donovan
Boston Braves 1942–1943
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 31 | 29 | 25 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .240 | .296 | .240 | .536 | 55.6 | 57.9 | .266 | 0.9 |
| 1943 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 88.7 | 94.0 | .316 | 0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 31 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 97 | 34 | 32 | 23 | 2 | 89.3 | 3.43 | 1.444 | 2.32 | 3.14 | 94.7 | 96.7 | 0.9 |
| 1943 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 14.7 | 1.84 | 1.773 | 0.61 | 4.18 | 125.6 | 180.7 | 0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-06-30 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1942-06-14 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1942-06-24 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1942-08-19 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1942-09-07 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-09-14 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1942-08-25 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1942-06-24 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1942-09-07 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 3.2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 1942-04-19 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 3.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.