MLB / Players

Ed Willett

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 183 lb
BornMarch 7, 1884 · Norfolk, VA, USA
MLB debutSeptember 5, 1906
Final gameSeptember 23, 1915
Seasons10 (1906–1915)

Detroit Tigers 1906–1913; St. Louis Terriers 1914–1915

Percentile snapshot

1914 season — qualified pitchers

G
27
14.3
GS
21
21.8
W
4
4.2
L
16
20.2
SV
0
0
CG
14
40.3
SHO
0
0
H
208
47.9
ER
82
30.3
BB
56
67.2
SO
73
23.5
HR
5
35.3
IP
175.0
21
ERA
4.22
8.4
WHIP
1.509
4.2
K/9
3.75
35.3
FIP
3.38
15.1
FIP-
105.4
23.5
ERA+
76.0
9.2
sWAR
-0.1
9.2

of 120 qualified 1914 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+
95.7
21.2
sWAR
16.1
91.6

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19063990000000200.000.000.000.000-118.0-100.0.000-0.3
19071014131100011500.077.143.077.220-30.3-30.6.124-0.3
1908307067411100801900.164.176.179.3565.013.9.1732.2
19094211911210225301033700.196.224.295.51952.260.7.2504.2
1910389083511310423100.133.182.193.3756.514.0.1892.7
19113994821522431782910.268.333.427.760105.2108.9.3602.4
1912371221156194121044201.165.193.270.46324.630.4.2203.0
191335102928264111332300.283.313.380.69396.8102.3.3322.7
1914286864415411821900.234.258.375.63370.978.6.293-0.1
19151719153300023000.200.333.200.53370.458.1.286-0.5

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
190633030302411816025.03.961.2805.762.4086.070.4-0.3
19071061501047202027048.73.701.3774.992.5999.070.7-0.3
1908302315811821865060772197.32.281.2473.512.73111.0107.72.2
19094134211012532397676895292.72.341.0762.742.83110.8109.44.2
19103725161101841755974652224.32.371.1102.613.00112.7112.52.7
19113827131411522619480865231.33.661.4743.353.67107.393.52.4
191237311715028128110484893284.33.291.2842.823.53103.4103.63.0
19133430131401902378389590242.03.091.3472.193.25110.795.22.7
1914272141601402088256735175.04.221.5093.753.38105.476.0-0.1
19151722321061271819252.74.611.5003.253.46114.265.7-0.5

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

G
279
PA
707
AB
652
R
56
H
130
2B
25
3B
10
HR
5
RBI
63
BB
26
SO
207
SB
1
BA
.1994
OBP
.2368
SLG
.2914
OPS
.5282

Pitching

G (P)
274
GS
202
W
102
L
99
SV
5
CG
142
248th-most career CG
SHO
12
IP
1,773
SO (P)
600
BB allowed
565
ERA
3.076
198th-lowest career ERA
WHIP
1.2880
498th-lowest career WHIP
K/9
3.05

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1912-06-30CWS @ DET Gameday423002509
1911-07-01BAL @ DET Gameday232020016
1912-04-16DET @ CWS Gameday513010105
1911-04-26CLE @ DET Gameday212001205
1913-09-15DET @ NYY Gameday503100304

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1909-09-05DET @ BAL Gameday9.0810080
1908-07-07DET @ NYY Gameday9.01230170
1913-08-17MIN @ DET Gameday9.0511170
1906-10-06DET @ BAL Gameday8.0840670
1908-06-03CLE @ DET Gameday9.0610160

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.