Bill Rariden

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 168 lb

BornFebruary 5, 1888 · Bedford, IN, USA

MLB debutAugust 9, 1909

Final gameOctober 2, 1920

Seasons12 (1909–1920)

Boston Doves 1909–1910; Boston Rustlers 1911; Boston Braves 1912–1913; Indianapolis Hoosiers 1914; Newark Pepper 1915; New York Giants 1916–1918; Cincinnati Reds 1919–1920

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified batters

142

55.2

516

34.5

444

30.9

33.3

120

39.4

88.5

46.1

RBI

36.4

77.6

63.6

52.1

.270

50.3

OBP

.361

70.9

SLG

.369

56.4

OPS

.730

61.2

wRC+

117.9

65.5

OPS+

114.7

61.2

wOBA

.356

66.7

sWAR

4.3

90.3

of 166 qualified 1915 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

83.0

13.6

OPS+

81.8

11.3

sWAR

13.5

90.1

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1909	13	48	42	1	6	1	0	0	1	4	5	1	.143	.217	.167	.384	13.3	15.8	.203	-0.2
1910	49	156	137	15	31	5	1	1	14	12	22	1	.226	.293	.299	.593	64.0	66.8	.293	0.3
1911	70	271	246	22	56	9	0	0	21	21	18	3	.228	.288	.264	.553	45.3	47.8	.273	-0.4
1912	79	274	247	27	55	3	1	1	14	18	35	3	.223	.281	.255	.536	42.5	43.5	.264	-0.5
1913	95	286	246	31	58	9	2	3	30	30	21	5	.236	.324	.325	.649	85.3	83.2	.316	1.2
1914	131	468	396	44	93	15	5	0	47	61	43	12	.235	.337	.298	.635	86.4	81.2	.316	2.0
1915	142	516	444	49	120	30	7	0	40	60	29	8	.270	.361	.369	.730	117.9	114.7	.356	4.3
1916	120	415	351	23	78	9	3	1	29	55	32	4	.222	.333	.274	.606	98.6	91.0	.305	2.6
1917	101	314	266	20	72	10	1	0	25	42	17	3	.271	.372	.316	.688	124.7	116.5	.342	3.0
1918	69	207	183	15	41	5	1	0	17	15	15	1	.224	.283	.262	.545	68.6	69.2	.270	0.5
1919	74	242	218	16	47	6	3	1	24	17	19	4	.216	.275	.284	.560	70.4	71.8	.272	0.7
1920	39	108	101	9	25	3	0	0	10	5	0	2	.248	.283	.277	.560	60.6	64.0	.268	0.2

Career totals

982

3,305

2,877

272

682

105

RBI

272

340

256

.2371

OBP

.3204

SLG

.2975

OPS

.6179

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
1913-07-07	ATL @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	5	0	7
1910-10-06	PHI @ ATL Gameday	3	4	3	0	0	1	3	2	6
1910-08-30	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	0	3	1	1	0	1	0	6
1919-07-11	CIN @ ATL Gameday	5	1	2	1	0	1	2	0	6
1912-06-22	SF @ ATL Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	1	1	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1909-04-14	PHI @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-16	PHI @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-17	LAD @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-19	LAD @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-19	LAD @ ATL 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.