MLB / Players

Bill Kling

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb
BornJanuary 14, 1867 · OH, USA
MLB debutAugust 13, 1891
Final gameApril 20, 1895
Seasons3 (1891–1895)

Philadelphia Phillies 1891; Baltimore Orioles 1892; Louisville Colonels 1895

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
-0.6
12.4

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
18911338313600027300.194.342.194.53678.257.2.2920.1
18922541101011200.250.400.7501.150201.0245.5.513-0.7
18951110000000000.000.000.000.000-74.4-100.0.0000.0

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
18911274204091363226275.04.321.6403.123.42102.277.40.1
18922202000171477111.011.452.1825.734.80146.128.7-0.7
18951000000001001.00.001.0000.006.58137.90.0

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
16
PA
44
AB
36
R
4
H
7
2B
0
3B
1
HR
0
RBI
3
BB
8
SO
5
SB
0
BA
.1944
OBP
.3409
SLG
.2500
OPS
.5909

Pitching

G (P)
15
GS
9
W
4
L
4
SV
0
CG
4
SHO
0
IP
87
SO (P)
33
BB allowed
40
ERA
5.172
WHIP
1.7011
K/9
3.41

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.