Bill Powell
Birmingham Black Barons 1946–1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .222 | .333 | .556 | 59.0 | 63.4 | .260 | -0.1 |
| 1947 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .417 | .125 | .542 | 89.4 | 48.8 | .338 | 0.8 |
| 1948 | 7 | 21 | 19 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .368 | .400 | .368 | .768 | 107.1 | 106.6 | .366 | 1.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 18.3 | 5.89 | 1.745 | 4.42 | 4.54 | 110.7 | 69.6 | -0.1 |
| 1947 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 7 | 8 | 22 | 2 | 24.0 | 2.63 | 1.417 | 8.25 | 4.30 | 87.4 | 187.7 | 0.8 |
| 1948 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 45 | 16 | 17 | 40 | 3 | 51.7 | 2.79 | 1.200 | 6.97 | 4.26 | 88.0 | 173.6 | 1.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-08-08 | CLB @ BBB Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1948-06-27 | IC @ BBB Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1946-07-20 | NYC @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1946-06-03 | CAG @ BBB Gameday | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1947-05-10 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-05-10 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| 1947-07-28 | NYC @ BBB Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 1948-05-16 | IC @ BBB Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| 1948-06-27 | IC @ BBB Gameday | 7.0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1946-06-03 | CAG @ BBB Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.