MLB / Players

Bill Hinchman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 190 lb

BornApril 4, 1883 · Philadelphia, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 24, 1905

Final gameJuly 23, 1920

Seasons10 (1905–1920)

Cincinnati Reds 1905–1906; Cleveland Naps 1907–1909; Pittsburgh Pirates 1915–1918; Pittsburgh Pirates 1920

Percentile snapshot

1916 season — qualified batters

152

85.7

628

77.3

555

79.8

65.5

175

94.1

57.1

98.3

76.5

RBI

93.3

73.9

12.6

35.3

31.1

.315

84.9

OBP

.378

81.5

SLG

.427

84.9

OPS

.805

86.6

wRC+

149.0

91.6

OPS+

144.2

88.2

wOBA

.381

78.2

sWAR

4.7

91.6

of 120 qualified 1916 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

120.4

79.4

OPS+

118.3

76.8

sWAR

16.2

91.7

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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
1905	17	66	51	10	13	4	1	0	10	13	6	4	0	.255	.415	.373	.788	134.6	125.5	.394	0.4
1906	18	64	54	7	11	1	1	0	1	8	11	2	0	.204	.306	.259	.566	77.6	73.0	.293	0.0
1907	152	592	514	62	117	19	9	1	50	47	97	15	0	.228	.311	.305	.616	100.9	98.0	.309	1.3
1908	137	530	464	55	107	23	8	6	59	38	68	9	0	.231	.301	.353	.655	113.1	113.7	.320	2.4
1909	139	524	457	57	118	20	13	2	53	41	82	22	0	.258	.331	.372	.703	120.1	119.7	.345	2.6
1915	156	649	577	72	177	33	14	5	77	48	75	17	17	.307	.368	.438	.807	146.5	146.0	.382	4.9
1916	152	628	555	64	175	18	16	4	76	54	61	10	0	.315	.378	.427	.805	149.0	144.2	.381	4.7
1917	69	282	244	27	46	5	5	2	29	33	27	5	0	.189	.288	.275	.562	72.8	70.2	.281	-0.4
1918	50	132	111	10	26	5	2	0	13	15	8	1	0	.234	.336	.315	.651	102.0	96.6	.325	0.3
1920	18	18	16	0	3	0	0	0	1	1	3	0	0	.188	.278	.188	.465	37.3	34.8	.241	-0.1

Career totals

908

3,485

3,043

364

793

128

405th-most career 3B

RBI

369

298

438

.2606

OBP

.3361

SLG

.3677

OPS

.7038

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
1915-08-25	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	1	1	0	8
1915-05-09	PIT @ CIN Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	4	0	7
1907-08-19	ATH @ CLE Gameday	4	0	4	0	1	0	5	1	6
1916-06-25	PIT @ CHC Gameday	6	2	3	0	0	1	3	0	6
1915-09-10	ATL @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	2	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1905-04-14	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1905-04-15	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1905-04-16	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1905-04-17	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1905-04-19	CIN @ CHC 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.