Bill Drake
St. Louis Giants 1916; St. Louis Giants 1920–1921; Kansas City Monarchs 1922; St. Louis Stars 1922; Kansas City Monarchs 1923–1925; Indianapolis ABCs 1926; Detroit Stars 1927; Nashville Elite Giants 1930; St. Louis Stars 1930
Percentile snapshot
1927 season — qualified pitchers
of 130 qualified 1927 pitchers (min 95 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .222 | -26.9 | -33.0 | .108 | 0.5 |
| 1920 | 26 | 78 | 71 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .183 | .237 | .211 | .448 | 40.0 | 34.5 | .227 | 2.9 |
| 1921 | 28 | 87 | 80 | 13 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .188 | .253 | .238 | .490 | 47.4 | 38.9 | .242 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 22 | 47 | 46 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .130 | .130 | .130 | .261 | -19.5 | -29.7 | .121 | 0.6 |
| 1923 | 27 | 80 | 66 | 10 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .242 | .296 | .379 | .675 | 75.8 | 74.9 | .311 | 3.0 |
| 1924 | 27 | 64 | 58 | 5 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .276 | .311 | .414 | .725 | 94.1 | 97.7 | .336 | 2.3 |
| 1925 | 22 | 53 | 45 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .133 | .188 | .200 | .388 | 16.2 | 4.2 | .185 | 3.4 |
| 1926 | 19 | 56 | 46 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .283 | .411 | .457 | .867 | 123.7 | 123.2 | .404 | 2.5 |
| 1927 | 16 | 47 | 43 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .163 | .234 | .209 | .443 | 24.9 | 20.2 | .218 | 0.8 |
| 1930 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .143 | .000 | .143 | -30.1 | -58.8 | .107 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 26.0 | 2.08 | 1.077 | 3.12 | 2.74 | 92.7 | 142.4 | 0.5 |
| 1920 | 24 | 22 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 206 | 66 | 64 | 90 | 3 | 191.0 | 3.11 | 1.414 | 4.24 | 3.40 | 94.6 | 115.4 | 2.9 |
| 1921 | 28 | 22 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 19 | 2 | 170 | 63 | 68 | 117 | 1 | 195.3 | 2.90 | 1.218 | 5.39 | 3.32 | 84.0 | 136.4 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 22 | 17 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 161 | 68 | 45 | 57 | 4 | 125.3 | 4.88 | 1.644 | 4.09 | 4.62 | 98.7 | 95.9 | 0.6 |
| 1923 | 26 | 22 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 203 | 79 | 59 | 69 | 5 | 185.0 | 3.84 | 1.416 | 3.36 | 3.98 | 90.5 | 114.4 | 3.0 |
| 1924 | 26 | 19 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 148 | 65 | 58 | 58 | 0 | 148.3 | 3.94 | 1.389 | 3.52 | 4.14 | 96.6 | 108.6 | 2.3 |
| 1925 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 111 | 46 | 33 | 57 | 0 | 123.7 | 3.35 | 1.164 | 4.15 | 4.90 | 93.3 | 156.7 | 3.4 |
| 1926 | 17 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 130 | 52 | 41 | 63 | 6 | 117.3 | 3.99 | 1.457 | 4.83 | 4.34 | 92.6 | 117.5 | 2.5 |
| 1927 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 127 | 51 | 46 | 33 | 8 | 111.3 | 4.12 | 1.554 | 2.67 | 4.74 | 119.1 | 96.6 | 0.8 |
| 1930 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11.3 | 7.94 | 1.941 | 2.38 | 6.13 | 134.5 | 57.4 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923-07-22 | KCM @ SLS Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 1923-07-17 | KCM @ ABC Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1921-07-12 | CAG @ SLS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1923-08-25 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1921-09-14 | SLS @ ABC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920-05-25 | ABC @ SLS Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| 1921-09-25 | SLS @ KCM Gameday | 9.0 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| 1921-06-05 | ABC @ SLS Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1921-06-29 | COL @ SLS Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| 1921-07-03 | SLS @ DTS Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 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.