Davey Williams
New York Giants 1949; New York Giants 1951–1955
Percentile snapshot
1954 season — qualified batters
of 82 qualified 1954 batters (min 477 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 13 | 58 | 50 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .240 | .333 | .360 | .693 | 87.7 | 86.3 | .325 | 0.1 |
| 1951 | 30 | 70 | 64 | 17 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 1 | .266 | .319 | .375 | .694 | 84.1 | 86.4 | .317 | 0.1 |
| 1952 | 138 | 605 | 540 | 70 | 137 | 26 | 3 | 13 | 55 | 48 | 63 | 2 | 3 | .254 | .324 | .385 | .709 | 94.8 | 95.7 | .327 | 1.9 |
| 1953 | 112 | 390 | 340 | 51 | 101 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 34 | 44 | 19 | 2 | 5 | .297 | .382 | .368 | .750 | 100.7 | 96.4 | .347 | 1.5 |
| 1954 | 142 | 601 | 544 | 65 | 121 | 18 | 3 | 9 | 46 | 43 | 33 | 1 | 1 | .222 | .284 | .316 | .600 | 52.8 | 57.3 | .275 | -1.3 |
| 1955 | 82 | 269 | 247 | 25 | 62 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 2 | .251 | .303 | .324 | .627 | 66.9 | 68.1 | .285 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-04-16 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| 1952-06-10 | SF @ CIN Gameday | 6 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 1952-05-28 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1953-05-10 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1952-07-01 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-04-19 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-20 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-21 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-22 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-23 | ATL @ SF 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.