MLB / Players

Bill Phillips

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb

BornNovember 9, 1868 · Allenport, PA, USA

MLB debutAugust 11, 1890

Final gameSeptember 22, 1903

Seasons7 (1890–1903)

Pittsburg Alleghenys 1890; Cincinnati Reds 1895; Cincinnati Reds 1899–1903

Percentile snapshot

1902 season — qualified pitchers

59.2

73.2

63.4

26.8

76.1

SHO

267

36.6

53.5

63.4

59.2

49.3

269.0

ERA

2.51

71.8

WHIP

1.197

66.2

K/9

2.84

47.9

FIP

2.76

73.2

FIP-

95.2

ERA+

115.4

63.4

sWAR

5.1

84.5

of 72 qualified 1902 pitchers (min 141 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

87.0

2.6

sWAR

6.7

82.4

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1890	14	49	46	6	11	2	0	2	3	13	0	.239	.286	.283	.568	70.7	65.6	.279	-2.3
1895	19	50	48	9	15	3	1	6	2	4	1	.313	.340	.417	.757	92.4	94.3	.353	0.1
1899	34	103	92	6	12	0	2	7	7	13	0	.130	.192	.174	.366	11.0	0.5	.187	3.0
1900	29	85	79	8	13	0	0	3	3	8	1	.165	.214	.165	.379	15.1	5.2	.193	0.5
1901	41	118	109	11	22	3	1	10	8	17	0	.202	.256	.248	.504	47.6	44.7	.248	-1.0
1902	38	124	114	11	39	1	3	11	6	10	1	.342	.385	.404	.789	137.1	138.0	.386	5.1
1903	21	62	57	5	10	0	0	4	5	7	0	.175	.242	.175	.417	19.5	14.6	.217	1.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1890	10	10	1	9	0	9	0	123	69	29	25	8	82.0	7.57	1.854	2.74	4.42	124.1	47.0	-2.3
1895	18	9	6	7	2	6	0	126	73	44	15	6	109.0	6.03	1.560	1.24	5.42	113.7	79.2	0.1
1899	33	27	17	9	1	18	1	234	84	71	43	3	227.7	3.32	1.340	1.70	3.85	100.1	115.9	3.0
1900	29	24	9	11	0	16	3	229	99	67	50	5	207.3	4.30	1.428	2.17	3.82	103.3	86.0	0.5
1901	37	36	14	18	0	29	1	364	145	67	109	7	281.3	4.64	1.532	3.49	3.33	98.0	73.2	-1.0
1902	33	33	16	16	0	30	0	267	75	55	85	3	269.0	2.51	1.197	2.84	2.76	95.2	115.4	5.1
1903	16	13	7	6	0	11	1	134	44	30	46	0	118.3	3.35	1.386	3.50	2.89	81.4	106.1	1.3

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

196

591

545

122

RBI

.2239

OBP

.2744

SLG

.2661

OPS

.5405

Pitching

G (P)

176

152

119

331st-most career CG

SHO

1,295

SO (P)

373

BB allowed

363

ERA

4.094

WHIP

1.4212

K/9

2.59

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	RBI	BB	TB
1902-05-13	PHI @ CIN Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	4	1	6
1902-10-02	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	1	0	5
1901-06-19	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	1	0	3
1902-07-25	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	0	3	0	0	0	0	3
1902-08-30	STL @ CIN Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	1	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-09-27	ATL @ CIN Gameday	10.0	7	4	1	1	6	0
1901-07-11	LAD @ CIN Gameday	9.0	11	5	2	2	6	0
1901-08-18	PIT @ CIN Gameday	9.0	10	4	4	1	6	1
1902-05-22	LAD @ CIN Gameday	9.0	12	9	5	2	6	0
1902-10-02	CIN @ PIT Gameday	9.0	6	4	1	4	6	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.