MLB / Players

Bill Voiselle

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 200 lb

BornJanuary 29, 1919 · Greenwood, SC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 1, 1942

Final gameJuly 8, 1950

Seasons9 (1942–1950)

New York Giants 1942–1946; Boston Braves 1947; New York Giants 1947; Boston Braves 1948–1949; Chicago Cubs 1950

Percentile snapshot

1949 season — qualified pitchers

6.6

9.8

6.6

73.8

42.6

1.6

SHO

78.7

170

86.9

80.3

62.3

55.7

169.3

8.2

ERA

4.04

31.1

WHIP

1.465

34.4

K/9

3.35

34.4

FIP

4.26

16.4

FIP-

111.9

6.6

ERA+

94.2

14.8

sWAR

1.0

9.8

of 62 qualified 1949 pitchers (min 157 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

98.5

31.6

sWAR

11.7

88.6

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1942	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	46.7	1.7	.253	0.2
1943	4	12	9	0	1	0	2	0	2	.111	.111	.111	.222	-64.5	-36.5	.105	0.8
1944	44	122	105	8	22	5	8	8	24	.210	.265	.257	.523	42.4	46.6	.253	5.7
1945	41	92	79	4	10	1	4	6	15	.127	.188	.139	.327	-15.9	-9.4	.169	0.5
1946	36	64	55	3	9	0	4	2	14	.164	.193	.164	.357	-17.4	0.9	.176	1.0
1947	33	71	68	3	11	2	3	0	18	.162	.162	.191	.353	-21.5	-5.4	.160	0.8
1948	37	83	72	2	7	0	4	4	17	.097	.145	.097	.242	-43.4	-32.5	.124	2.3
1949	30	65	61	1	7	2	5	4	7	.115	.169	.148	.317	-18.6	-11.7	.156	1.0
1950	19	13	13	0	1	0	0	0	3	.077	.077	.077	.154	-83.1	-59.4	.070	-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
1942	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	6	2	4	5	1	9.0	2.00	1.111	5.00	3.95	119.3	165.6	0.2
1943	4	4	1	2	0	3	0	18	7	14	19	1	31.0	2.03	1.032	5.52	3.02	87.7	169.5	0.8
1944	43	41	21	16	0	25	1	276	105	118	161	31	312.7	3.02	1.260	4.63	3.96	108.2	121.1	5.7
1945	41	35	14	14	0	14	4	249	116	97	115	15	232.3	4.49	1.489	4.45	3.79	97.1	86.9	0.5
1946	36	25	9	15	0	10	2	171	74	85	89	14	178.0	3.74	1.438	4.50	3.78	109.0	92.5	1.0
1947	33	25	9	11	0	8	0	190	85	73	79	14	174.0	4.40	1.511	4.09	4.00	100.3	90.6	0.8
1948	37	30	13	13	2	9	2	226	87	90	89	18	215.7	3.63	1.465	3.71	4.12	106.9	106.2	2.3
1949	30	22	7	8	1	5	4	170	76	78	63	14	169.3	4.04	1.465	3.35	4.26	111.9	94.2	1.0
1950	19	7	0	4	0	0	0	64	33	29	25	7	51.3	5.79	1.812	4.38	5.01	120.8	71.6	-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

246

525

464

RBI

100

.1466

OBP

.1902

SLG

.1681

OPS

.3583

Pitching

G (P)

245

190

SHO

478th-most career SHO

1,373

SO (P)

645

BB allowed

588

ERA

3.834

WHIP

1.4257

K/9

4.23

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	RBI	TB
1946-08-24	SF @ PIT Gameday	3	1	2	1	2
1947-08-12	ATL @ LAD Gameday	4	1	2	1	2
1947-08-29	ATL @ PHI Gameday	5	1	2	1	2
1944-06-04	PIT @ SF Gameday	3	0	2	0	2
1944-08-25	LAD @ SF Gameday	4	0	2	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1945-08-05	PHI @ SF Gameday	9.0	13	5	5	3	11	0
1943-09-26	SF @ PIT Gameday	10.0	4	3	2	6	9	0
1944-04-18	ATL @ SF Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	2	9	0
1944-06-25	ATL @ SF Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	0	9	1
1949-08-07	ATL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	0	9	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.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.