Bump Wills
Texas Rangers 1977–1981; Chicago Cubs 1982
Percentile snapshot
1981 season — qualified batters
of 138 qualified 1981 batters (min 325 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 152 | 617 | 541 | 87 | 155 | 28 | 6 | 9 | 62 | 65 | 96 | 28 | 12 | .287 | .361 | .410 | .771 | 111.5 | 110.4 | .347 | 3.2 |
| 1978 | 157 | 619 | 539 | 78 | 135 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 57 | 63 | 91 | 52 | 14 | .250 | .331 | .347 | .678 | 94.5 | 92.3 | .318 | 2.0 |
| 1979 | 146 | 617 | 543 | 90 | 148 | 21 | 3 | 5 | 46 | 53 | 58 | 35 | 11 | .273 | .340 | .350 | .690 | 90.6 | 88.6 | .318 | 1.6 |
| 1980 | 146 | 655 | 578 | 102 | 152 | 31 | 5 | 5 | 58 | 51 | 71 | 34 | 9 | .263 | .322 | .360 | .682 | 90.5 | 89.3 | .314 | 1.7 |
| 1981 | 102 | 454 | 410 | 51 | 103 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 41 | 32 | 49 | 12 | 9 | .251 | .304 | .307 | .611 | 80.0 | 80.6 | .287 | 0.7 |
| 1982 | 128 | 477 | 419 | 64 | 114 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 38 | 46 | 76 | 35 | 10 | .272 | .347 | .377 | .724 | 104.1 | 100.6 | .339 | 2.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977-08-27 | TEX @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 1982-06-14 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1977-05-03 | TEX @ DET Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1978-08-28 | TOR @ TEX Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1979-09-03 | TEX @ SEA Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
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.