Harry Byrd
Philadelphia Athletics 1950; Philadelphia Athletics 1952–1953; New York Yankees 1954; Baltimore Orioles 1955; Chicago White Sox 1955–1956; Detroit Tigers 1957
Percentile snapshot
1955 season — qualified pitchers
of 53 qualified 1955 pitchers (min 156 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -1.3 |
| 1952 | 37 | 84 | 75 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .167 | .160 | .327 | -32.3 | -11.6 | .159 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 40 | 85 | 81 | 9 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .232 | .222 | .454 | 5.0 | 19.8 | .213 | -1.3 |
| 1954 | 25 | 53 | 46 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 1 | .196 | .260 | .196 | .456 | 26.2 | 30.2 | .228 | 2.2 |
| 1955 | 39 | 56 | 49 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 0 | .102 | .120 | .102 | .222 | -54.9 | -38.2 | .109 | -0.1 |
| 1956 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.8 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 1957 | 37 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -134.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.8 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 20 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 10.7 | 16.88 | 3.188 | 1.69 | 9.09 | 200.6 | 26.9 | -1.3 |
| 1952 | 37 | 28 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 15 | 3 | 244 | 84 | 98 | 116 | 12 | 228.3 | 3.31 | 1.498 | 4.57 | 3.41 | 87.2 | 118.1 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 40 | 37 | 11 | 20 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 279 | 145 | 115 | 122 | 23 | 236.7 | 5.51 | 1.665 | 4.64 | 4.43 | 105.2 | 76.4 | -1.3 |
| 1954 | 25 | 21 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 131 | 44 | 43 | 52 | 10 | 132.3 | 2.99 | 1.315 | 3.54 | 3.71 | 105.2 | 117.8 | 2.2 |
| 1955 | 39 | 20 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 149 | 80 | 58 | 69 | 17 | 156.3 | 4.61 | 1.324 | 3.97 | 4.25 | 110.0 | 84.0 | -0.1 |
| 1956 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4.3 | 10.38 | 3.000 | 0.00 | 5.27 | 128.0 | 39.7 | -0.3 |
| 1957 | 37 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 22 | 28 | 20 | 6 | 59.0 | 3.36 | 1.373 | 3.05 | 4.57 | 119.3 | 114.2 | 0.8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-06-21 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1952-08-19 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1953-06-02 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1953-08-27 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1954-05-14 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-05-27 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 1953-06-25 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1953-08-09 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 6.2 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 1952-08-14 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 12.0 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 1 |
| 1955-08-05 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 10.0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 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.