MLB / Players

Cy Williams

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornDecember 21, 1887 · Wadena, IN, USA

MLB debutJuly 18, 1912

Final gameSeptember 22, 1930

Seasons19 (1912–1930)

Chicago Cubs 1912–1917; Philadelphia Phillies 1918–1930

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified batters

131

62.7

570

66.3

492

65.7

81.1

135

58.6

47.9

8.3

98.2

RBI

89.9

3.6

32.5

.274

26.6

OBP

.365

51.5

SLG

.502

80.5

OPS

.867

76.3

wRC+

123.4

70.4

OPS+

124.3

wOBA

.394

sWAR

3.0

75.1

of 170 qualified 1927 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

122.6

82.7

OPS+

121.4

81.6

sWAR

47.3

98.6

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
1912	28	70	62	3	15	1	1	0	1	6	14	2	0	.242	.309	.290	.599	67.1	65.5	.294	-0.1
1913	49	167	156	17	35	3	3	4	32	5	26	5	0	.224	.262	.359	.621	70.5	76.2	.289	-0.2
1914	55	111	94	12	19	2	2	0	5	13	13	2	0	.202	.312	.266	.578	77.8	72.2	.294	0.0
1915	151	566	518	59	133	22	6	13	64	26	49	15	10	.257	.305	.398	.703	104.4	107.3	.331	2.5
1916	118	484	405	55	113	19	9	12	66	51	64	6	0	.279	.372	.459	.831	158.0	153.3	.392	5.1
1917	138	539	468	53	113	22	4	5	42	38	78	8	0	.241	.308	.338	.646	92.3	92.3	.311	1.6
1918	94	398	351	49	97	14	1	6	39	27	30	10	0	.276	.337	.373	.710	109.5	108.6	.343	2.0
1919	109	481	435	54	121	21	1	9	39	30	43	9	0	.278	.335	.393	.728	109.9	109.0	.345	2.5
1920	148	643	590	88	192	36	10	15	72	32	45	18	12	.325	.364	.497	.861	138.3	136.8	.396	5.4
1921	146	603	562	67	180	28	6	18	75	30	32	5	15	.320	.357	.488	.844	110.4	111.2	.380	3.1
1922	151	676	584	98	180	30	6	26	92	74	49	11	14	.308	.392	.514	.905	118.6	118.7	.410	4.1
1923	136	604	535	98	157	22	3	41	114	59	57	11	10	.293	.371	.576	.947	128.6	131.1	.421	4.4
1924	148	636	558	101	183	31	11	24	93	67	49	7	12	.328	.403	.552	.955	140.2	137.6	.429	5.6
1925	107	375	314	78	104	11	5	13	60	53	34	4	9	.331	.435	.522	.958	134.9	131.1	.433	2.5
1926	107	384	336	63	116	13	4	18	53	38	35	2	0	.345	.418	.568	.986	155.0	153.6	.446	3.5
1927	131	570	492	86	135	18	2	30	98	61	57	0	0	.274	.365	.502	.867	123.4	124.3	.394	3.0
1928	99	303	238	31	61	9	0	12	37	54	34	0	0	.256	.400	.445	.845	118.4	113.3	.395	1.4
1929	66	89	65	11	19	2	0	5	21	22	9	0	0	.292	.471	.554	1.025	145.3	141.2	.462	0.8
1930	21	21	17	1	8	2	0	0	2	4	3	0	0	.471	.571	.588	1.160	176.1	168.0	.520	0.3

Career totals

2,002

251st-most career G

7,720

335th-most career PA

6,780

347th-most career AB

1,024

330th-most career R

1,981

308th-most career H

306

467th-most career 2B

345th-most career 3B

251

255th-most career HR

RBI

1,005

304th-most career RBI

690

393rd-most career BB

721

115

.2922

358th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3649

378th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4702

293rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8351

257th-highest career OPS

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
1924-09-12	CHC @ PHI Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	2	4	0	12
1923-05-11	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	4	3	0	0	3	7	1	12
1923-05-01	ATL @ PHI Gameday	5	4	4	1	0	2	4	0	11
1927-08-05	PHI @ PIT Gameday	4	3	4	1	1	1	6	1	10
1922-04-15	ATL @ PHI Gameday	6	2	4	0	0	2	3	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1912-04-11	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-12	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-14	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-15	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-16	CHC @ STL 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.