Bill Sherdel

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornAugust 15, 1896 · McSherrystown, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1918

Final gameJune 11, 1932

Seasons15 (1918–1932)

St. Louis Cardinals 1918–1929; Boston Braves 1930; St. Louis Cardinals 1930; Boston Braves 1931–1932; St. Louis Cardinals 1932

Percentile snapshot

1930 season — qualified pitchers

55.9

48.3

35.6

59.3

42.4

29.7

SHO

217

37.3

36.4

63.6

33.1

20.3

183.3

55.9

ERA

4.71

33.1

WHIP

1.418

55.1

K/9

2.70

FIP

4.77

44.9

FIP-

97.5

50.8

ERA+

104.0

41.5

sWAR

1.8

of 119 qualified 1930 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

104.0

53.6

sWAR

34.0

97.1

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1918	35	66	62	7	15	3	1	1	8	2	10	0	0	.242	.266	.371	.637	88.3	95.0	.300	2.2
1919	40	50	48	1	13	2	0	0	5	1	8	0	0	.271	.300	.313	.613	83.6	86.6	.292	0.5
1920	49	68	63	4	14	1	1	1	2	3	5	0	0	.222	.258	.317	.575	61.2	66.9	.270	1.3
1921	39	48	44	2	5	0	0	0	4	4	7	0	0	.114	.188	.114	.301	-20.3	-18.0	.159	2.1
1922	48	92	88	11	17	2	1	1	10	2	10	0	0	.193	.211	.273	.484	20.5	26.4	.221	2.6
1923	45	93	83	13	28	2	0	1	9	7	8	0	1	.337	.389	.398	.786	111.4	109.4	.368	2.1
1924	49	89	75	4	15	4	0	0	8	13	9	0	0	.200	.318	.253	.572	63.4	56.5	.286	2.6
1925	33	79	73	12	15	5	0	1	5	5	0	1	0	.205	.256	.315	.571	39.3	43.7	.262	4.8
1926	36	94	90	9	22	5	1	1	8	1	9	0	0	.244	.253	.356	.608	51.8	60.3	.275	3.7
1927	39	85	72	9	14	2	0	1	5	7	6	0	0	.194	.266	.264	.530	40.3	41.3	.256	3.6
1928	38	102	84	10	19	5	0	1	8	8	10	1	0	.226	.293	.321	.615	58.1	60.4	.290	6.0
1929	33	78	70	5	16	1	1	1	8	2	4	0	0	.229	.250	.314	.564	33.1	39.1	.255	-0.3
1930	34	74	61	6	6	1	0	0	3	5	5	0	0	.098	.167	.115	.281	-28.8	-29.9	.144	1.8
1931	27	49	46	2	14	1	0	0	3	3	5	0	0	.304	.347	.326	.673	86.0	85.4	.317	0.9
1932	4	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	722.8	676.1	1.281	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1918	35	16	6	12	0	9	1	174	55	49	40	3	182.3	2.71	1.223	1.97	2.93	108.0	99.9	2.2
1919	36	10	5	9	1	7	0	137	53	42	52	3	137.3	3.47	1.303	3.41	2.93	103.4	81.6	0.5
1920	43	7	11	10	6	4	0	183	62	40	74	1	170.0	3.28	1.312	3.92	2.71	89.0	92.7	1.3
1921	38	8	9	8	1	5	1	137	51	38	57	7	144.3	3.18	1.212	3.55	3.68	98.6	117.4	2.1
1922	47	31	17	13	2	15	3	298	104	62	79	12	242.0	3.87	1.488	2.94	3.89	98.9	101.8	2.6
1923	39	26	15	13	2	14	0	270	108	59	78	15	225.0	4.32	1.462	3.12	4.00	101.6	91.2	2.1
1924	35	10	8	9	1	6	0	188	64	38	57	9	168.7	3.42	1.340	3.04	3.74	98.5	111.1	2.6
1925	32	21	15	6	1	17	2	216	69	42	53	8	200.0	3.11	1.290	2.39	3.77	86.7	140.1	4.8
1926	34	29	16	12	0	17	3	255	91	49	59	15	234.7	3.49	1.295	2.26	3.92	100.1	112.3	3.7
1927	39	28	17	12	6	18	0	241	91	48	59	17	232.3	3.53	1.244	2.29	4.09	103.1	112.6	3.6
1928	38	27	21	10	5	20	0	251	79	56	72	17	248.7	2.86	1.235	2.61	3.78	94.8	139.5	6.0
1929	33	22	10	15	0	11	1	278	129	58	69	14	195.7	5.93	1.717	3.17	4.45	94.7	79.3	-0.3
1930	34	21	9	7	1	8	0	217	96	43	55	15	183.3	4.71	1.418	2.70	4.77	97.5	104.0	1.8
1931	27	16	6	10	0	8	0	163	65	35	34	13	137.7	4.25	1.438	2.22	4.49	120.7	87.5	0.9
1932	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	3	2	1	0	7.3	3.68	1.636	1.23	3.46	89.3	105.8	0.2

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

549

1,068

960

214

RBI

.2229

OBP

.2715

SLG

.2979

OPS

.5694

Pitching

G (P)

514

412th-most career G (P)

272

446th-most career GS

165

211th-most career W

146

181st-most career L

159

201st-most career CG

SHO

2,709

198th-most career IP

SO (P)

839

BB allowed

661

453rd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.720

WHIP

1.3579

K/9

2.79

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
1926-08-04	STL @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	3	0	9
1922-08-19	PHI @ STL Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	1	3	1	7
1922-05-17	LAD @ STL Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	3	0	5
1918-08-29	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	0	3	0	1	0	2	0	5
1929-04-23	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	1	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1929-04-23	STL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	15	6	5	4	9
1924-05-24	PHI @ STL Gameday	11.2	8	0	0	4	8
1924-08-30	STL @ CHC Gameday	8.0	8	2	2	2	8
1923-08-17	STL @ LAD Gameday	12.0	9	5	4	3	7
1919-09-16	ATL @ STL Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	1	6

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.