MLB / Players

Bill Sweeney

HandednessThrows Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 160 lb

Born1858 · Philadelphia, PA, USA

MLB debutJune 27, 1882

Final gameOctober 14, 1884

Seasons2 (1882–1884)

Philadelphia Athletics 1882; Baltimore Monumentals 1884

Percentile snapshot

1884 season — qualified pitchers

88.9

91.4

22.2

87.7

SHO

74.1

522

4.9

155

12.3

22.2

374

93.8

11.1

538.0

90.1

ERA

2.59

65.4

WHIP

1.108

K/9

6.26

80.2

FIP

3.00

FIP-

98.8

54.3

ERA+

117.3

59.3

sWAR

7.4

80.2

of 82 qualified 1884 pitchers (min 105 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

8.6

85.2

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
1882	23	92	88	8	14	4	0	0	6	4	0	0	0	.159	.196	.205	.400	56.2	34.6	.190	1.1
1884	74	305	296	35	71	7	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	.240	.262	.264	.526	86.2	78.1	.245	7.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1882	20	20	9	10	0	18	0	178	55	42	48	4	170.0	2.91	1.294	2.54	3.12	116.1	92.1	1.1
1884	62	60	40	21	0	58	4	522	155	74	374	13	538.0	2.59	1.108	6.26	3.00	98.8	117.3	7.4

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

397

384

RBI

.2214

OBP

.2469

SLG

.2500

OPS

.4969

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

708

SO (P)

422

BB allowed

116

ERA

2.669

WHIP

1.1525

K/9

5.36

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.