MLB / Players

Jimmy Williams

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 175 lb

BornDecember 20, 1876 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1899

Final gameOctober 3, 1909

Seasons11 (1899–1909)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1899–1900; Baltimore Orioles 1901–1902; New York Highlanders 1903–1907; St. Louis Browns 1908–1909

Percentile snapshot

1908 season — qualified batters

148

68.3

619

77.9

539

72.1

68.3

127

54.8

68.3

63.5

81.7

RBI

84.6

5.8

31.7

.236

18.3

OBP

.310

43.3

SLG

.321

44.2

OPS

.631

39.4

wRC+

108.8

51.9

OPS+

107.4

51.9

wOBA

.312

37.5

sWAR

3.1

73.1

of 105 qualified 1908 batters (min 480 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

114.8

71.1

OPS+

115.0

71.9

sWAR

33.4

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
1899	153	693	621	126	220	28	27	9	116	60	51	26	.354	.416	.530	.946	148.7	158.4	.443	7.0
1900	106	455	416	73	110	15	11	5	68	32	27	18	.264	.323	.389	.712	94.7	96.1	.338	1.4
1901	130	568	501	113	159	26	21	7	96	56	36	21	.317	.388	.495	.883	135.3	142.5	.408	4.7
1902	125	545	498	83	156	27	21	8	83	36	46	14	.313	.361	.500	.861	126.4	131.3	.394	3.8
1903	132	554	502	60	134	30	12	3	82	39	54	9	.267	.326	.392	.718	110.3	110.5	.334	2.9
1904	146	612	559	62	147	31	7	2	74	38	65	14	.263	.314	.354	.669	106.9	106.9	.319	2.9
1905	129	533	470	54	107	20	8	6	62	50	46	14	.228	.306	.343	.648	96.6	96.5	.316	1.9
1906	139	571	501	61	139	25	7	3	77	44	51	8	.277	.342	.373	.715	122.8	122.2	.347	3.8
1907	139	551	504	53	136	17	11	2	63	35	50	14	.270	.319	.359	.678	105.6	107.1	.330	2.5
1908	148	619	539	63	127	20	7	4	53	55	71	7	.236	.310	.321	.631	108.8	107.4	.312	3.1
1909	110	415	374	32	73	3	6	0	22	29	34	6	.195	.257	.235	.492	56.6	56.9	.249	-0.5

Career totals

1,457

6,116

5,485

780

1,508

242

138

66th-most career 3B

RBI

796

474

531

151

.2749

OBP

.3366

SLG

.3962

OPS

.7328

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
1902-08-25	CWS @ BAL Gameday	6	1	6	1	1	0	7	0	9
1903-05-01	MIN @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	0	1	0	8
1901-06-18	BAL @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	6	1	8
1902-08-18	BAL @ BAL Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	1	4	1	8
1901-07-05	BAL @ ATH Gameday	3	3	3	0	1	1	2	2	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-26	BOS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	BOS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	BAL @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-30	BAL @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-05-01	BAL @ MIN 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.