MLB / Players

Bill Garfield

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 160 lb
BornOctober 26, 1867 · Sheffield, OH, USA
MLB debutJuly 10, 1889
Final gameAugust 6, 1890
Seasons2 (1889–1890)

Pittsburg Alleghenys 1889; Cleveland Spiders 1890

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
-1.2
4.5

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1889413130000000400.000.000.000.000-74.1-100.0.000-0.9
18909292604000231200.154.241.154.39536.315.7.212-0.3

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
188942020204525174229.07.762.1381.245.47136.051.9-0.9
1890981707091383516370.04.891.8002.064.61129.372.9-0.3

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

G
13
PA
42
AB
39
R
0
H
4
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
2
BB
3
SO
16
SB
0
BA
.1026
OBP
.1667
SLG
.1026
OPS
.2693

Pitching

G (P)
13
GS
10
W
1
L
9
SV
0
CG
9
SHO
0
IP
99
SO (P)
20
BB allowed
52
ERA
5.727
WHIP
1.8990
K/9
1.82

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.