Bill Evans
Chicago American Giants 1924; Indianapolis ABCs 1926; Dayton Marcos 1926; Cleveland Hornets 1927; Homestead Grays 1930–1932; Washington Pilots 1932; Homestead Grays 1933; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1937
Percentile snapshot
1933 season — qualified batters
of 150 qualified 1933 batters (min 52 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 8 | 28 | 24 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .208 | .269 | .208 | .478 | 42.4 | 31.9 | .240 | -0.1 |
| 1926 | 53 | 224 | 210 | 29 | 55 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .262 | .289 | .348 | .637 | 63.7 | 63.5 | .292 | -0.3 |
| 1927 | 28 | 96 | 90 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .144 | .181 | .178 | .359 | -2.4 | -3.1 | .172 | -0.9 |
| 1930 | 53 | 211 | 186 | 27 | 56 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 36 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 0 | .301 | .356 | .419 | .776 | 79.9 | 77.2 | .351 | 0.0 |
| 1931 | 42 | 165 | 142 | 19 | 37 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .261 | .318 | .345 | .663 | 84.2 | 81.7 | .310 | 0.4 |
| 1932 | 57 | 234 | 209 | 41 | 66 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 17 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .316 | .367 | .373 | .740 | 104.5 | 104.3 | .357 | 1.0 |
| 1933 | 15 | 58 | 50 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .240 | .321 | .320 | .641 | 82.0 | 76.1 | .303 | 0.1 |
| 1937 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .250 | -24.6 | -35.4 | .114 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-07-30 | HOM @ WPI Gameday | 5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1932-08-06 | BBS @ WPI Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1932-05-20 | HOM @ HIL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1932-09-18 | WPI @ BBS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1932-06-05 | HOM @ WPI Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-04-14 | DTW @ HOM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-15 | HOM @ DTW Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-16 | DTW @ HOM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-07 | CLS @ HOM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-07 | WPI @ BBS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.