Billy Purtell
Chicago White Sox 1908–1909; Boston Red Sox 1910; Chicago White Sox 1910; Boston Red Sox 1911; Detroit Tigers 1914
Percentile snapshot
1910 season — qualified batters
of 112 qualified 1910 batters (min 489 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1908 | 26 | 77 | 69 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | .130 | .155 | .159 | .314 | -1.0 | 4.0 | .156 | -0.6 |
| 1909 | 103 | 412 | 361 | 34 | 93 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 40 | 19 | 27 | 14 | 0 | .258 | .302 | .299 | .601 | 94.0 | 95.4 | .297 | 1.3 |
| 1910 | 151 | 612 | 536 | 36 | 117 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 51 | 39 | 47 | 7 | 0 | .218 | .278 | .259 | .537 | 70.7 | 70.7 | .269 | 0.3 |
| 1911 | 27 | 85 | 82 | 5 | 23 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .280 | .298 | .415 | .712 | 91.2 | 98.0 | .333 | 0.2 |
| 1914 | 28 | 82 | 76 | 4 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 2 | .171 | .203 | .224 | .426 | 12.8 | 25.9 | .210 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909-10-02 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1911-06-09 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1910-10-08 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 1910-08-23 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 1910-07-25 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1908-04-14 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1908-04-16 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1908-04-17 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1908-04-18 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1908-04-19 | BAL @ CWS 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.