Bill Parsons
Milwaukee Brewers 1971–1973; Oakland Athletics 1974
Percentile snapshot
1972 season — qualified pitchers
of 85 qualified 1972 pitchers (min 156 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 36 | 88 | 72 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 31 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 42.2 | 43.3 | .245 | 3.5 |
| 1972 | 33 | 78 | 67 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 30 | 0 | 0 | .164 | .194 | .179 | .374 | -1.6 | 12.8 | .181 | -0.4 |
| 1973 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -1.5 |
| 1974 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 36 | 35 | 13 | 17 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 219 | 87 | 93 | 139 | 19 | 244.7 | 3.20 | 1.275 | 5.11 | 3.42 | 99.8 | 107.1 | 3.5 |
| 1972 | 33 | 30 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 194 | 93 | 68 | 111 | 27 | 214.0 | 3.91 | 1.224 | 4.67 | 3.87 | 127.7 | 77.4 | -0.4 |
| 1973 | 20 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 45 | 67 | 30 | 6 | 59.7 | 6.79 | 2.112 | 4.53 | 6.25 | 165.8 | 55.5 | -1.5 |
| 1974 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2.0 | 0.00 | 2.000 | 9.00 | 5.07 | 150.3 | — | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971-06-15 | MIL @ BAL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1972-09-02 | MIL @ TEX Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1971-08-25 | MIL @ CLE Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 1972-08-05 | NYY @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1971-09-04 | LAA @ MIL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971-07-27 | BOS @ MIL Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| 1971-05-28 | DET @ MIL Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
| 1972-08-27 | CWS @ MIL Gameday | 7.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
| 1971-05-04 | TEX @ MIL Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 1971-05-19 | MIL @ ATH Gameday | 7.0 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 2 |
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.