Bill Salkeld
Pittsburgh Pirates 1945–1947; Boston Braves 1948–1949; Chicago White Sox 1950
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 95 | 317 | 267 | 45 | 83 | 16 | 1 | 15 | 52 | 50 | 16 | 2 | 0 | .311 | .420 | .547 | .966 | 163.3 | 162.8 | .446 | 4.3 |
| 1946 | 69 | 200 | 160 | 18 | 47 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 39 | 16 | 2 | 0 | .294 | .432 | .400 | .832 | 145.8 | 133.1 | .406 | 2.2 |
| 1947 | 47 | 68 | 61 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .213 | .284 | .246 | .529 | 36.5 | 39.3 | .258 | -0.2 |
| 1948 | 78 | 250 | 198 | 26 | 48 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 28 | 42 | 37 | 1 | 0 | .242 | .378 | .414 | .792 | 121.3 | 116.9 | .371 | 2.0 |
| 1949 | 66 | 209 | 161 | 17 | 41 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 25 | 44 | 24 | 1 | 0 | .255 | .417 | .379 | .796 | 131.3 | 121.5 | .382 | 2.0 |
| 1950 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | -5.7 | -30.6 | .191 | 0.0 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-08-04 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 11 |
| 1945-09-03 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 1949-09-01 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| 1948-06-10 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1946-05-26 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-04-17 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1945-04-18 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1945-04-19 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1945-04-20 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1945-04-21 | CHC @ PIT 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.