MLB / Players

Ed Williamson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 210 lb

BornOctober 24, 1857 · Philadelphia, PA, USA

MLB debutMay 1, 1878

Final gameSeptember 27, 1890

Seasons13 (1878–1890)

Indianapolis Blues 1878; Chicago White Stockings 1879–1889; Chicago Pirates 1890

Percentile snapshot

1888 season — qualified batters

132

66.3

523

47.2

452

24.7

52.8

113

39.3

5.6

84.3

RBI

87.6

23.6

.250

50.6

OBP

.352

83.1

SLG

.385

78.7

OPS

.737

wRC+

131.1

OPS+

134.2

wOBA

.347

80.9

sWAR

4.6

84.3

of 90 qualified 1888 batters (min 418 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

116.4

73.8

OPS+

120.1

79.4

sWAR

32.0

96.8

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1878	63	255	250	31	58	10	2	1	19	5	15	0	.232	.247	.300	.547	84.3	78.8	.254	0.4
1879	80	344	320	66	94	20	13	1	36	24	31	0	.294	.343	.447	.790	142.7	157.3	.355	3.1
1880	75	326	311	65	78	20	2	0	31	15	26	0	.251	.285	.328	.613	105.3	105.9	.280	1.6
1881	82	362	343	56	92	12	6	1	48	19	19	0	.268	.307	.347	.654	103.5	103.7	.302	1.9
1882	83	375	348	66	98	27	4	3	60	27	21	0	.282	.333	.408	.741	127.4	136.5	.333	2.7
1883	98	424	402	83	111	49	5	2	59	22	48	0	.276	.314	.438	.751	117.4	123.8	.331	2.6
1884	107	459	417	84	116	18	8	27	84	42	56	0	.278	.344	.554	.898	154.5	178.0	.397	4.7
1885	113	482	407	87	97	16	5	3	65	75	60	0	.238	.357	.324	.681	121.8	121.2	.331	3.5
1886	121	510	430	69	93	17	8	6	58	80	71	13	.216	.339	.335	.674	109.0	105.2	.325	3.1
1887	127	517	439	77	117	20	14	9	78	73	57	45	.267	.377	.437	.815	121.2	125.2	.376	3.6
1888	132	523	452	75	113	9	14	8	73	65	71	25	.250	.352	.385	.737	131.1	134.2	.347	4.6
1889	47	200	173	16	41	3	1	1	30	23	22	2	.237	.340	.283	.623	84.0	74.1	.314	0.4
1890	73	305	261	34	51	7	3	2	26	36	35	3	.195	.311	.268	.580	69.9	55.2	.294	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1881	3	1	1	1	0	1	14	4	0	2	0	18.0	2.00	.778	1.00	2.46	88.8	138.7	1.9
1882	1	0	0	0	0	0	9	2	1	0	1	3.0	6.00	3.333	0.00	8.19	283.7	48.1	2.7
1883	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	1.0	9.00	2.000	9.00	4.25	135.5	34.8	2.6
1884	2	0	0	0	0	0	8	4	2	0	0	2.0	18.00	5.000	0.00	5.86	196.7	16.5	4.7
1885	2	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	3	0	6.0	0.00	.333	4.50	1.67	59.4	—	3.5
1886	2	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	3.0	0.00	.667	3.00	2.41	73.4	—	3.1
1887	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	0	2.0	9.00	1.500	0.00	4.59	113.5	45.0	3.6

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

1,201

5,082

4,553

809

1,159

228

249th-most career 3B

RBI

667

506

532

.2546

OBP

.3322

SLG

.3841

OPS

.7163

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

3.343

WHIP

1.2286

K/9

1.80

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.