Bill Wambsganss
Cleveland Naps 1914; Cleveland Indians 1915–1923; Boston Red Sox 1924–1925; Philadelphia Athletics 1926
Percentile snapshot
1924 season — qualified batters
of 175 qualified 1924 batters (min 486 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914 | 43 | 159 | 143 | 12 | 31 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 24 | 2 | 7 | .217 | .277 | .287 | .564 | 61.3 | 66.1 | .280 | 0.0 |
| 1915 | 121 | 423 | 375 | 30 | 73 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 21 | 36 | 50 | 8 | 9 | .195 | .272 | .227 | .499 | 47.4 | 46.9 | .258 | -1.1 |
| 1916 | 136 | 551 | 475 | 57 | 117 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 45 | 41 | 40 | 13 | 0 | .246 | .313 | .293 | .605 | 76.4 | 77.9 | .304 | 1.0 |
| 1917 | 141 | 570 | 499 | 52 | 127 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 43 | 37 | 42 | 16 | 0 | .255 | .315 | .313 | .628 | 89.7 | 90.9 | .312 | 1.4 |
| 1918 | 87 | 356 | 315 | 34 | 93 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 40 | 21 | 21 | 16 | 0 | .295 | .345 | .356 | .701 | 103.5 | 104.5 | .346 | 1.5 |
| 1919 | 139 | 587 | 526 | 60 | 146 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 60 | 32 | 24 | 18 | 0 | .278 | .323 | .344 | .667 | 81.2 | 83.8 | .319 | 0.9 |
| 1920 | 153 | 664 | 565 | 83 | 138 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 55 | 54 | 26 | 9 | 18 | .244 | .316 | .317 | .633 | 67.8 | 67.2 | .305 | -0.2 |
| 1921 | 107 | 500 | 410 | 80 | 117 | 28 | 5 | 2 | 47 | 44 | 27 | 13 | 7 | .285 | .359 | .393 | .752 | 91.8 | 91.0 | .353 | 1.2 |
| 1922 | 142 | 644 | 538 | 89 | 141 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 47 | 60 | 26 | 17 | 10 | .262 | .341 | .325 | .666 | 75.6 | 73.6 | .320 | 0.4 |
| 1923 | 101 | 418 | 345 | 59 | 100 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 59 | 43 | 15 | 10 | 9 | .290 | .373 | .380 | .753 | 100.1 | 97.7 | .361 | 1.5 |
| 1924 | 156 | 727 | 632 | 93 | 174 | 41 | 5 | 0 | 49 | 54 | 33 | 14 | 8 | .275 | .336 | .356 | .692 | 76.9 | 77.8 | .331 | 0.5 |
| 1925 | 111 | 432 | 360 | 50 | 83 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 41 | 52 | 21 | 3 | 5 | .231 | .329 | .294 | .624 | 61.8 | 58.0 | .308 | -0.6 |
| 1926 | 54 | 66 | 54 | 11 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1 | .352 | .444 | .407 | .852 | 128.4 | 120.9 | .410 | 0.5 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920-07-02 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1919-05-18 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1920-08-03 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1921-08-08 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1925-05-08 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914-04-14 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1914-04-15 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1914-04-16 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1914-04-17 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1914-04-18 | CLE @ DET 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.