Bill Steele
St. Louis Cardinals 1910–1913; Brooklyn Robins 1914; St. Louis Cardinals 1914
Percentile snapshot
1912 season — qualified pitchers
of 88 qualified 1912 pitchers (min 153 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | 9 | 31 | 31 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .258 | .258 | .355 | .613 | 68.7 | 79.2 | .288 | 0.6 |
| 1911 | 43 | 116 | 101 | 8 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 11 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .208 | .292 | .267 | .559 | 59.9 | 57.5 | .280 | 2.1 |
| 1912 | 41 | 71 | 61 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .180 | .286 | .246 | .532 | 51.1 | 46.1 | .270 | -0.7 |
| 1913 | 12 | 21 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .056 | .150 | .056 | .206 | -38.4 | -39.9 | .123 | -0.8 |
| 1914 | 25 | 24 | 20 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .300 | .364 | .450 | .814 | 140.2 | 143.8 | .385 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 71 | 26 | 24 | 25 | 1 | 71.7 | 3.27 | 1.326 | 3.14 | 3.12 | 104.1 | 91.8 | 0.6 |
| 1911 | 43 | 34 | 18 | 19 | 3 | 23 | 1 | 287 | 119 | 113 | 115 | 8 | 287.3 | 3.73 | 1.392 | 3.60 | 3.47 | 102.8 | 90.5 | 2.1 |
| 1912 | 40 | 25 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 245 | 101 | 66 | 67 | 5 | 194.0 | 4.69 | 1.603 | 3.11 | 3.52 | 103.7 | 72.5 | -0.7 |
| 1913 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 58 | 30 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 54.0 | 5.00 | 1.407 | 1.67 | 4.14 | 129.8 | 63.8 | -0.8 |
| 1914 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 26 | 14 | 19 | 4 | 69.7 | 3.36 | 1.234 | 2.45 | 3.19 | 114.6 | 82.8 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911-05-16 | STL @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1910-09-10 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1912-06-29 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 1911-06-11 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 1914-06-12 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912-05-13 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 9.2 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1911-06-16 | SF @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
| 1910-09-24 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 9.2 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 1911-06-20 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 1911-07-08 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 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.