Bill Sayles
Boston Red Sox 1939; Brooklyn Dodgers 1943; New York Giants 1943
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -39.8 | -27.6 | .132 | -0.2 |
| 1943 | 25 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .400 | .733 | 104.5 | 109.2 | .343 | -0.7 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 14.0 | 7.07 | 1.929 | 5.79 | 5.57 | 117.7 | 66.9 | -0.2 |
| 1943 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 73 | 38 | 33 | 43 | 1 | 64.7 | 5.29 | 1.639 | 5.98 | 2.87 | 83.7 | 65.0 | -0.7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-06-04 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1943-07-21 | SF @ STL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1939-07-17 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1943-05-05 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1943-08-21 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-05-30 | SF @ STL Gameday | 8.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1939-08-05 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 3.0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| 1943-05-18 | CIN @ SF Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1943-06-04 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 4.2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1943-05-05 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 5.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 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.