Bill Short
New York Yankees 1960; Baltimore Orioles 1962; Baltimore Orioles 1966; Boston Red Sox 1966; Pittsburgh Pirates 1967; New York Mets 1968; Cincinnati Reds 1969
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 10 | 16 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .250 | .267 | .517 | 41.9 | 44.5 | .243 | -0.1 |
| 1962 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -120.5 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.5 |
| 1966 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .083 | .083 | .083 | .167 | -72.7 | -51.3 | .076 | 0.5 |
| 1967 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.7 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1968 | 34 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -137.3 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.5 |
| 1969 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -132.3 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 49 | 25 | 30 | 14 | 5 | 47.0 | 4.79 | 1.681 | 2.68 | 5.17 | 141.5 | 76.3 | -0.1 |
| 1962 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 4.0 | 15.75 | 3.500 | 6.75 | 6.26 | 168.6 | 23.6 | -0.5 |
| 1966 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 44 | 16 | 12 | 29 | 3 | 46.0 | 3.13 | 1.217 | 5.67 | 2.80 | 80.6 | 110.2 | 0.5 |
| 1967 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.3 | 3.86 | .857 | 3.86 | 3.09 | 91.0 | 88.0 | 0.0 |
| 1968 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 16 | 14 | 24 | 0 | 30.3 | 4.75 | 1.253 | 7.12 | 2.45 | 82.1 | 62.8 | -0.5 |
| 1969 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.3 | 15.43 | 2.143 | 0.00 | 3.94 | 105.3 | 24.3 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960-04-29 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1960-08-06 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1966-07-23 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1960-04-23 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1960-05-04 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966-07-23 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 8.0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| 1966-07-08 | LAA @ BAL Gameday | 5.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1960-04-29 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 8.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 1966-07-01 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1966-07-17 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 7.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 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.