Cotton Williams
Newark Eagles 1943; Newark Eagles 1945–1948
Percentile snapshot
1948 season — qualified pitchers
of 73 qualified 1948 pitchers (min 57 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 19 | 68 | 64 | 8 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .234 | .269 | .297 | .566 | 55.4 | 51.0 | .272 | 0.6 |
| 1945 | 14 | 59 | 52 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .288 | .373 | .385 | .757 | 113.3 | 112.4 | .365 | 0.4 |
| 1946 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .182 | .100 | .282 | -2.7 | -20.4 | .157 | -0.8 |
| 1947 | 15 | 29 | 26 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .385 | .429 | .500 | .929 | 147.8 | 153.6 | .434 | 1.2 |
| 1948 | 29 | 65 | 61 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .230 | .277 | .295 | .572 | 65.8 | 65.5 | .276 | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 27.0 | 3.00 | .889 | 4.33 | 4.57 | 95.1 | 160.3 | 0.6 |
| 1945 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4.3 | 4.15 | 1.154 | 4.15 | 7.18 | 174.2 | 99.3 | 0.4 |
| 1946 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 24 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 26.7 | 8.10 | 2.025 | 2.36 | 4.63 | 104.9 | 54.5 | -0.8 |
| 1947 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 54 | 20 | 11 | 29 | 1 | 51.3 | 3.51 | 1.266 | 5.08 | 3.39 | 82.0 | 118.0 | 1.2 |
| 1948 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 84 | 38 | 29 | 40 | 1 | 72.0 | 4.75 | 1.569 | 5.00 | 3.60 | 101.4 | 74.7 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-06-17 | PHS @ NE Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1943-07-12 | BEG @ NE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1945-07-07 | NE @ BEG Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1948-08-14 | NE @ BEG Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1945-08-04 | BEG @ NE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-07-28 | NE @ BBB Gameday | 9.0 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
| 1947-07-15 | HOM @ NE Gameday | 8.1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
| 1948-08-14 | NE @ BEG Gameday | 7.0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| 1948-05-25 | NE @ NBY Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1947-06-15 | NE @ NYC Gameday | 7.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 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.