Bill Walker
New York Giants 1927–1932; St. Louis Cardinals 1933–1936
Percentile snapshot
1935 season — qualified pitchers
of 96 qualified 1935 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 1928 | 22 | 24 | 22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .182 | -72.0 | -52.2 | .084 | -0.1 |
| 1929 | 29 | 70 | 61 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 21 | 1 | 0 | .115 | .143 | .164 | .307 | -31.6 | -23.5 | .143 | 4.2 |
| 1930 | 40 | 91 | 86 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .186 | .186 | .302 | .488 | 10.3 | 17.3 | .209 | 4.5 |
| 1931 | 37 | 84 | 77 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .065 | .111 | .065 | .176 | -62.3 | -50.9 | .094 | 5.8 |
| 1932 | 31 | 55 | 52 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .135 | .167 | .173 | .340 | -15.0 | -7.1 | .159 | 0.8 |
| 1933 | 29 | 57 | 53 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .132 | .148 | .189 | .337 | -24.1 | -6.1 | .156 | 1.5 |
| 1934 | 24 | 58 | 54 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 26 | 0 | 0 | .093 | .109 | .111 | .220 | -58.4 | -42.0 | .104 | 3.0 |
| 1935 | 38 | 68 | 59 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .102 | .131 | .119 | .250 | -42.8 | -32.9 | .121 | 2.1 |
| 1936 | 22 | 29 | 25 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .280 | .333 | .320 | .653 | 78.1 | 77.3 | .310 | -0.7 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 4.0 | 9.00 | 2.750 | 9.00 | 4.74 | 122.1 | 43.1 | -0.2 |
| 1928 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 79 | 40 | 31 | 39 | 9 | 76.3 | 4.72 | 1.441 | 4.60 | 4.54 | 114.8 | 83.8 | -0.1 |
| 1929 | 29 | 23 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 188 | 61 | 57 | 65 | 11 | 177.7 | 3.09 | 1.379 | 3.29 | 4.41 | 95.2 | 149.9 | 4.2 |
| 1930 | 39 | 34 | 17 | 15 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 258 | 107 | 88 | 105 | 19 | 245.3 | 3.93 | 1.410 | 3.85 | 4.84 | 100.5 | 122.7 | 4.5 |
| 1931 | 37 | 28 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 19 | 6 | 212 | 60 | 64 | 121 | 6 | 239.3 | 2.26 | 1.153 | 4.55 | 3.13 | 83.3 | 166.4 | 5.8 |
| 1932 | 31 | 22 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 177 | 75 | 55 | 74 | 23 | 163.0 | 4.14 | 1.423 | 4.09 | 4.90 | 130.3 | 90.9 | 0.8 |
| 1933 | 29 | 20 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 168 | 60 | 67 | 41 | 8 | 158.0 | 3.42 | 1.487 | 2.34 | 4.00 | 115.6 | 101.2 | 1.5 |
| 1934 | 24 | 19 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 160 | 53 | 66 | 76 | 11 | 153.0 | 3.12 | 1.477 | 4.47 | 4.36 | 103.2 | 135.5 | 3.0 |
| 1935 | 37 | 25 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 222 | 82 | 78 | 79 | 7 | 193.3 | 3.82 | 1.552 | 3.68 | 3.96 | 96.9 | 107.2 | 2.1 |
| 1936 | 21 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 106 | 52 | 27 | 22 | 5 | 79.7 | 5.87 | 1.669 | 2.49 | 4.40 | 110.3 | 67.9 | -0.7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-05-05 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1932-06-11 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1930-06-01 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1929-07-14 | STL @ SF Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1933-08-29 | STL @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931-08-08 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
| 1935-07-14 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
| 1931-06-20 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 1931-08-04 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1934-04-29 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 2 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.