Bill Scherrer
Cincinnati Reds 1982–1984; Detroit Tigers 1984–1986; Cincinnati Reds 1987; Baltimore Orioles 1988; Philadelphia Phillies 1988
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .667 | .500 | 1.167 | 258.5 | 229.3 | .562 | 0.5 |
| 1983 | 73 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .167 | .091 | .258 | -34.7 | -27.7 | .140 | 2.0 |
| 1984 | 54 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -130.7 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.3 |
| 1985 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.4 |
| 1986 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
| 1987 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.0 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.3 |
| 1988 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 17.3 | 2.60 | .981 | 3.63 | 1.94 | 52.8 | 141.6 | 0.5 |
| 1983 | 73 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 28 | 33 | 57 | 6 | 92.0 | 2.74 | 1.152 | 5.58 | 3.36 | 89.1 | 137.5 | 2.0 |
| 1984 | 54 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 78 | 33 | 23 | 51 | 7 | 71.3 | 4.16 | 1.416 | 6.43 | 3.59 | 95.0 | 91.1 | 0.3 |
| 1985 | 48 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 32 | 41 | 46 | 10 | 66.0 | 4.36 | 1.561 | 6.27 | 5.23 | 128.1 | 93.5 | 0.4 |
| 1986 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 17 | 22 | 16 | 3 | 21.0 | 7.29 | 1.952 | 6.86 | 6.41 | 155.2 | 56.7 | -0.5 |
| 1987 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 16 | 16 | 24 | 3 | 33.0 | 4.36 | 1.788 | 6.55 | 4.05 | 96.0 | 96.7 | 0.3 |
| 1988 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 10.7 | 8.44 | 1.875 | 5.06 | 5.47 | 144.2 | 43.7 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-09-25 | HOU @ CIN Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1983-04-30 | CIN @ WSH Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1982-09-07 | LAD @ CIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982-09-09 | SD @ CIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982-09-13 | CIN @ SF Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985-08-23 | DET @ LAA Gameday | 6.1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
| 1985-05-11 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 5.0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 1982-09-25 | HOU @ CIN Gameday | 7.0 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1983-05-14 | SF @ CIN Gameday | 3.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1983-07-03 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 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.