Bill McKechnie

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornAugust 7, 1886 · Wilkinsburg, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1907

Final gameSeptember 28, 1920

Seasons11 (1907–1920)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1907; Pittsburgh Pirates 1910–1912; Boston Braves 1913; New York Yankees 1913; Indianapolis Hoosiers 1914; Newark Pepper 1915; Cincinnati Reds 1916; New York Giants 1916; Cincinnati Reds 1917; Pittsburgh Pirates 1918; Pittsburgh Pirates 1920

Percentile snapshot

1918 season — qualified batters

126

480

55.2

435

59.5

35.3

111

53.4

81.9

68.1

RBI

62.1

44.8

42.2

61.2

.255

27.6

OBP

.297

15.5

SLG

.340

44.8

OPS

.637

28.4

wRC+

88.9

26.7

OPS+

91.9

wOBA

.307

22.4

sWAR

1.2

45.7

of 117 qualified 1918 batters (min 390 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

77.8

8.1

OPS+

79.9

9.5

sWAR

3.2

74.5

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
1907	3	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	.125	.125	.125	.250	-40.2	-21.7	.121	-0.1
1910	71	231	212	23	46	1	2	0	12	11	23	4	0	.217	.256	.241	.496	38.1	43.3	.246	-0.8
1911	104	376	321	40	73	8	7	2	37	28	18	9	0	.227	.293	.315	.608	68.6	69.8	.295	-0.6
1912	24	79	73	8	18	0	1	0	4	4	5	2	0	.247	.286	.274	.560	55.2	56.1	.271	-0.2
1913	46	129	116	8	15	0	0	0	8	8	18	2	0	.129	.198	.129	.328	-8.1	-5.0	.176	-1.2
1914	149	664	570	107	173	24	6	2	38	53	36	47	0	.304	.368	.377	.745	113.5	111.9	.358	3.5
1915	127	515	451	49	113	22	5	1	43	41	31	28	0	.251	.316	.328	.644	88.9	89.3	.313	1.3
1916	108	413	390	26	100	12	1	0	27	10	32	11	0	.256	.277	.292	.569	71.4	77.1	.270	0.2
1917	48	145	134	11	34	3	1	0	15	7	7	5	0	.254	.296	.291	.587	80.2	82.1	.284	0.3
1918	126	480	435	34	111	13	9	2	43	24	22	12	0	.255	.297	.340	.637	88.9	91.9	.307	1.2
1920	40	140	133	13	29	3	1	1	13	4	7	7	4	.218	.241	.278	.519	39.9	48.3	.244	-0.5

Career totals

846

3,180

2,843

319

713

RBI

240

190

204

127

.2508

OBP

.3012

SLG

.3127

OPS

.6139

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
1911-09-02	STL @ PIT Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
1918-07-17	LAD @ PIT Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	0	2	1	7
1918-07-31	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	0	0	0	6
1918-06-23	PIT @ CIN Gameday	5	2	5	0	0	0	4	0	5
1916-05-18	SF @ STL Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	0	0	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1907-04-11	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-17	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-18	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-20	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-21	PIT @ STL 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1962 (Veterans)

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