Bill Swift
Pittsburgh Pirates 1932–1939; Boston Bees 1940; Brooklyn Dodgers 1941; Chicago White Sox 1943
Percentile snapshot
1937 season — qualified pitchers
of 97 qualified 1937 pitchers (min 154 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 39 | 82 | 78 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .192 | .203 | .205 | .408 | 1.9 | 10.9 | .186 | 2.5 |
| 1933 | 37 | 83 | 82 | 10 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .244 | .253 | .293 | .546 | 47.0 | 55.6 | .251 | 3.0 |
| 1934 | 37 | 86 | 84 | 3 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .224 | .321 | .545 | 34.2 | 43.2 | .243 | 2.6 |
| 1935 | 39 | 82 | 78 | 11 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .244 | .272 | .308 | .579 | 50.0 | 54.0 | .266 | 5.5 |
| 1936 | 45 | 109 | 105 | 6 | 31 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .295 | .315 | .448 | .762 | 98.3 | 102.6 | .343 | 3.6 |
| 1937 | 36 | 59 | 54 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .211 | .185 | .396 | 3.5 | 8.9 | .192 | 1.4 |
| 1938 | 36 | 54 | 50 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .231 | .320 | .551 | 41.4 | 50.1 | .251 | 2.6 |
| 1939 | 36 | 48 | 42 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .238 | .304 | .238 | .542 | 48.2 | 48.2 | .267 | 1.4 |
| 1940 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -123.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 1941 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | -2.5 | 12.0 | .187 | 0.3 |
| 1943 | 18 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .308 | .100 | .408 | 42.3 | 21.6 | .249 | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 39 | 23 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 205 | 86 | 26 | 64 | 15 | 214.3 | 3.61 | 1.078 | 2.69 | 3.61 | 94.7 | 105.6 | 2.5 |
| 1933 | 37 | 29 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 214 | 76 | 36 | 64 | 11 | 218.3 | 3.13 | 1.145 | 2.64 | 3.19 | 95.7 | 106.2 | 3.0 |
| 1934 | 37 | 24 | 11 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 244 | 94 | 46 | 81 | 15 | 212.7 | 3.98 | 1.364 | 3.43 | 4.00 | 97.2 | 103.5 | 2.6 |
| 1935 | 39 | 21 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 193 | 61 | 37 | 74 | 6 | 203.7 | 2.70 | 1.129 | 3.27 | 3.24 | 79.2 | 151.7 | 5.5 |
| 1936 | 45 | 31 | 16 | 16 | 2 | 17 | 0 | 275 | 117 | 63 | 92 | 18 | 262.3 | 4.01 | 1.288 | 3.16 | 4.01 | 99.2 | 100.7 | 3.6 |
| 1937 | 36 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 160 | 72 | 34 | 84 | 14 | 164.0 | 3.95 | 1.183 | 4.61 | 3.71 | 96.0 | 97.9 | 1.4 |
| 1938 | 36 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 155 | 54 | 40 | 77 | 9 | 150.0 | 3.24 | 1.300 | 4.62 | 3.37 | 88.8 | 117.0 | 2.6 |
| 1939 | 36 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 150 | 56 | 28 | 56 | 6 | 129.7 | 3.89 | 1.373 | 3.89 | 3.26 | 84.2 | 99.8 | 1.4 |
| 1940 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 9.3 | 2.89 | 2.036 | 6.75 | 3.50 | 94.4 | 128.1 | 0.1 |
| 1941 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 22.0 | 3.27 | 1.500 | 3.68 | 5.07 | 137.2 | 112.8 | 0.3 |
| 1943 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 24 | 27 | 28 | 5 | 51.3 | 4.21 | 1.461 | 4.91 | 4.45 | 135.5 | 78.1 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934-05-24 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1936-09-26 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1936-09-19 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1933-05-01 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1934-09-21 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-05-19 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 8.0 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 1934-07-27 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 1934-08-20 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1937-05-20 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 1935-07-28 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 7.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 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.