Bill Henry

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornOctober 15, 1927 · Alice, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1952

Final gameJune 16, 1969

Seasons16 (1952–1969)

Boston Red Sox 1952–1955; Chicago Cubs 1958–1959; Cincinnati Reds 1960–1965; San Francisco Giants 1965–1967; Pittsburgh Pirates 1968; San Francisco Giants 1968; Houston Astros 1969

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

15.3

91.2

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1952	14	33	31	2	8	2	1	5	2	6	.258	.303	.387	.690	79.8	85.6	.320	1.0
1953	21	32	32	2	6	1	1	4	0	10	.188	.188	.281	.469	4.0	22.4	.210	1.7
1954	25	37	34	2	4	0	0	3	3	7	.118	.189	.118	.307	-34.1	-17.7	.162	0.3
1955	17	20	19	0	2	0	0	0	1	9	.105	.150	.105	.255	-49.2	-32.5	.132	1.1
1958	44	19	17	2	4	1	0	1	2	6	.235	.316	.294	.610	67.3	64.1	.289	1.9
1959	65	32	31	4	6	0	0	2	0	12	.194	.194	.194	.387	-7.9	3.8	.176	3.3
1960	51	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.3	-100.0	.000	1.1
1961	48	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.9	-100.0	.000	1.6
1962	40	3	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	77.4	78.8	.305	0.1
1963	47	8	6	0	1	0	0	1	0	3	.167	.143	.167	.310	-36.1	-11.5	.131	0.0
1964	38	6	6	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	193.0	180.0	.458	2.4
1965	38	5	5	0	1	0	0	1	0	4	.200	.200	.200	.400	2.0	12.9	.183	0.7
1966	35	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.6	-100.0	.000	0.5
1967	28	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.2	-100.0	.000	0.5
1968	17	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-136.5	-100.0	.000	-1.2
1969	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	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
1952	13	10	5	4	0	5	0	75	33	36	23	7	76.7	3.87	1.448	2.70	4.44	113.9	100.6	1.0
1953	21	12	5	5	1	4	1	86	31	33	56	4	85.7	3.26	1.389	5.88	3.16	75.7	128.2	1.7
1954	24	13	3	7	0	3	1	104	48	49	38	9	95.7	4.52	1.599	3.57	4.37	108.1	89.6	0.3
1955	17	7	2	4	0	0	0	56	22	21	23	7	59.7	3.32	1.291	3.47	4.24	99.8	128.0	1.1
1958	44	0	5	4	6	0	0	63	26	17	58	8	81.3	2.88	.984	6.42	3.02	77.1	136.2	1.9
1959	65	0	9	8	12	0	0	111	40	26	115	19	134.3	2.68	1.020	7.70	3.35	84.8	147.5	3.3
1960	51	0	1	5	17	0	0	62	24	20	58	8	67.7	3.19	1.212	7.71	3.54	92.5	119.8	1.1
1961	47	0	2	1	16	0	0	50	13	15	53	8	53.3	2.19	1.219	8.94	3.47	85.6	184.8	1.6
1962	40	0	4	2	11	0	0	40	19	20	35	5	37.3	4.58	1.607	8.44	4.27	106.6	87.5	0.1
1963	47	0	1	3	14	0	0	55	24	11	45	4	52.0	4.15	1.269	7.79	2.46	73.8	80.2	0.0
1964	37	0	2	2	6	0	0	31	5	12	28	2	52.0	0.87	.827	4.85	3.04	83.8	419.3	2.4
1965	38	0	4	2	4	0	0	43	17	9	40	2	47.0	3.26	1.106	7.66	2.12	59.3	110.3	0.7
1966	35	0	1	1	1	0	0	15	6	10	15	3	22.0	2.45	1.136	6.14	4.58	125.7	148.5	0.5
1967	28	1	2	0	2	0	0	16	5	9	23	1	21.7	2.08	1.154	9.55	2.66	80.4	159.3	0.5
1968	17	1	0	2	0	0	0	33	18	6	9	2	21.7	7.48	1.800	3.74	4.16	140.8	39.5	-1.2
1969	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	2	0	5.0	0.00	.800	3.60	3.06	86.4	—	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

531

214

203

RBI

.1773

OBP

.2075

SLG

.2167

OPS

.4242

Pitching

G (P)

527

385th-most career G (P)

199th-most career SV

SHO

913

SO (P)

621

BB allowed

296

ERA

3.263

WHIP

1.2464

K/9

6.12

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	RBI	BB	TB
1952-05-07	CWS @ BOS Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2	1	4
1953-07-04	MIN @ BOS Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	2	0	3
1953-07-24	BOS @ BAL Gameday	4	0	1	0	1	2	0	3
1952-04-17	BOS @ MIN Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	1	0	2
1959-08-25	CHC @ CIN Gameday	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1953-09-09	CLE @ BOS Gameday	9.0	8	2	2	3	9	1
1953-07-04	MIN @ BOS Gameday	9.0	9	2	2	1	8	1
1953-08-15	MIN @ BOS Gameday	6.2	7	2	0	2	8	0
1953-07-19	BOS @ CLE Gameday	6.1	7	3	3	3	7	0
1954-04-15	MIN @ BOS Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	6	6	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

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.