Bill Sweeney

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornMarch 6, 1886 · Covington, KY, USA

MLB debutJune 14, 1907

Final gameOctober 5, 1914

Seasons8 (1907–1914)

Boston Doves 1907; Chicago Cubs 1907; Boston Doves 1908–1910; Boston Rustlers 1911; Boston Braves 1912–1913; Chicago Cubs 1914

Percentile snapshot

1914 season — qualified batters

134

38.7

540

40.5

463

34.4

21.5

101

21.5

29.4

30.7

17.2

RBI

33.7

68.7

79.8

.218

1.8

OBP

.298

11.7

SLG

.276

2.5

OPS

.575

3.1

wRC+

72.7

6.7

OPS+

71.1

5.5

wOBA

.287

4.3

sWAR

0.3

12.9

of 164 qualified 1914 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

100.3

42.4

OPS+

97.5

36.7

sWAR

16.1

91.6

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1907	61	227	201	25	51	2	0	0	19	16	15	9	.254	.309	.264	.572	76.8	77.0	.289	0.3
1908	127	481	418	44	102	15	3	0	40	45	25	17	.244	.317	.294	.612	96.5	94.1	.306	1.8
1909	138	539	493	44	120	19	3	1	36	37	22	25	.243	.296	.300	.596	77.0	79.6	.295	0.7
1910	150	579	499	43	133	22	4	5	46	61	28	25	.267	.349	.357	.705	99.3	98.6	.348	2.4
1911	137	613	523	92	164	33	6	3	63	77	26	33	.314	.404	.417	.820	121.3	119.0	.396	3.9
1912	153	699	593	84	204	31	13	1	100	68	34	27	.344	.416	.445	.861	131.3	129.8	.410	5.2
1913	139	584	502	65	129	17	6	0	47	66	50	18	.257	.347	.315	.662	91.4	87.1	.325	1.6
1914	134	540	463	45	101	14	5	1	38	53	15	18	.218	.298	.276	.575	72.7	71.1	.287	0.3

Career totals

1,039

4,262

3,692

442

1,004

153

RBI

389

423

215

172

470th-most career SB

.2719

OBP

.3487

SLG

.3440

OPS

.6927

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
1912-06-27	LAD @ ATL Gameday	5	2	5	0	1	0	1	1	7
1912-06-22	SF @ ATL Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	0	6	1	7
1911-08-17	CHC @ ATL Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	3	0	7
1911-08-24	STL @ ATL Gameday	3	3	3	1	0	1	0	2	7
1912-08-07	CIN @ ATL Gameday	5	0	5	1	0	0	2	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1907-04-11	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-14	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-17	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-18	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-20	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.