Bill Kunkel
Kansas City Athletics 1961–1962; New York Yankees 1963
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 58 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .222 | .125 | .347 | -6.3 | -5.5 | .184 | -0.2 |
| 1962 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 1963 | 22 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .429 | .333 | .762 | 133.2 | 120.7 | .365 | 1.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 58 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 103 | 51 | 32 | 46 | 11 | 88.7 | 5.18 | 1.523 | 4.67 | 4.16 | 100.2 | 80.3 | -0.2 |
| 1962 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 7.7 | 3.52 | 1.565 | 7.04 | 7.60 | 181.8 | 118.7 | 0.1 |
| 1963 | 22 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 14 | 13 | 31 | 3 | 46.3 | 2.72 | 1.187 | 6.02 | 2.81 | 79.3 | 130.1 | 1.0 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963-06-30 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1961-08-05 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1963-06-22 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1961-04-15 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1961-04-23 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963-06-22 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 5.2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1961-08-23 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 3.2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 1961-06-28 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 4.2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1961-05-27 | ATH @ CLE Gameday | 4.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1963-09-21 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 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.