Joe Williams

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 190 lb

BornApril 6, 1886 · Seguin, TX, USA

Final gameSeptember 28, 1932

Seasons20 (1910–1932)

Chicago Giants 1910–1911; New York Lincoln Giants 1912–1923; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1924; Homestead Grays 1928–1931; Detroit Wolves 1932; Homestead Grays 1932

Percentile snapshot

1932 season — qualified pitchers

27.7

26.3

22.6

94.2

9.5

SHO

70.8

76.6

79.6

21.9

86.1

76.0

27.7

ERA

2.72

87.6

WHIP

1.263

K/9

3.32

41.6

FIP

3.67

67.9

FIP-

88.0

81.8

ERA+

153.3

91.2

sWAR

2.0

56.2

of 138 qualified 1932 pitchers (min 29 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

151.6

99.5

sWAR

41.5

98.1

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

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1910	9	25	23	4	6	0	1	0	2	2	0	1	.261	.320	.348	.668	102.8	102.3	.316	1.4
1911	15	54	50	6	11	2	0	1	7	3	0	1	.220	.264	.320	.584	77.7	75.9	.280	0.0
1912	11	42	40	5	13	4	0	2	11	1	0	0	.325	.341	.575	.916	144.4	153.7	.410	2.4
1913	15	54	49	5	9	2	0	1	8	2	0	1	.184	.231	.286	.516	53.5	52.5	.254	2.1
1914	10	28	25	1	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	.160	.222	.160	.382	16.4	4.0	.202	1.5
1915	7	26	22	6	12	1	2	0	4	2	0	0	.545	.583	.773	1.356	214.3	237.0	.607	1.5
1916	12	40	34	6	11	1	0	2	6	4	0	1	.324	.395	.529	.924	136.9	149.8	.435	2.6
1917	23	79	67	15	27	4	1	3	17	10	0	1	.403	.481	.627	1.107	178.6	201.3	.528	4.7
1918	21	82	73	11	29	2	1	1	9	7	0	0	.397	.450	.493	.943	163.3	169.6	.460	5.4
1919	15	61	54	7	21	4	0	1	13	5	0	2	.389	.450	.519	.969	184.9	195.6	.467	2.3
1920	5	21	20	1	5	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	.250	.286	.300	.586	95.9	100.1	.293	0.5
1921	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-77.7	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1922	7	24	21	2	3	0	0	1	1	3	0	1	.143	.250	.286	.536	59.9	52.2	.261	1.5
1923	16	33	28	4	10	1	0	1	9	3	0	1	.357	.419	.500	.919	147.1	157.0	.425	0.7
1924	20	46	43	1	11	3	0	1	6	2	1	0	.256	.289	.395	.684	82.6	84.4	.314	1.4
1928	4	13	10	3	3	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	.300	.364	.300	.664	83.2	76.7	.322	0.3
1929	20	59	57	6	8	1	0	0	3	2	0	0	.140	.169	.158	.327	-10.7	-19.6	.159	3.7
1930	18	56	48	6	15	3	1	0	10	3	2	1	.313	.365	.417	.782	81.9	79.0	.355	5.2
1931	13	35	31	4	10	0	0	1	5	3	0	0	.323	.382	.419	.802	118.1	119.6	.371	2.4
1932	13	37	32	6	8	2	0	0	6	4	0	2	.250	.333	.313	.646	83.6	77.8	.319	2.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1910	8	6	5	2	0	5	0	44	12	8	45	0	57.0	1.89	.912	7.11	1.94	65.9	155.5	1.4
1911	10	10	3	5	0	6	2	74	31	25	52	2	68.0	4.10	1.456	6.88	3.08	94.4	79.6	0.0
1912	11	10	7	2	0	9	0	76	21	15	61	1	86.7	2.18	1.050	6.33	2.73	82.3	152.3	2.4
1913	14	11	9	2	1	11	3	111	21	25	70	1	101.3	1.87	1.342	6.22	2.19	83.2	141.4	2.1
1914	10	8	5	3	0	5	1	68	18	21	43	1	68.7	2.36	1.296	5.64	3.18	88.9	151.8	1.5
1915	7	6	6	1	0	5	0	49	13	10	34	0	55.7	2.10	1.060	5.50	2.09	79.0	126.1	1.5
1916	9	6	5	2	0	6	1	70	11	17	37	1	63.3	1.56	1.374	5.26	3.63	82.7	280.8	2.6
1917	12	9	10	0	0	9	1	88	19	31	70	0	101.0	1.69	1.178	6.24	2.95	75.7	230.0	4.7
1918	16	14	10	6	0	14	1	128	17	32	93	1	134.7	1.14	1.188	6.22	2.42	73.6	289.3	5.4
1919	13	11	9	3	1	11	2	93	33	20	88	1	102.7	2.89	1.101	7.71	2.14	63.1	117.4	2.3
1920	3	3	1	2	0	3	1	27	5	2	15	0	26.0	1.73	1.115	5.19	1.56	63.9	140.9	0.5
1921	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	1.0	9.00	2.000	9.00	1.47	35.9	45.6	-0.1
1922	6	6	2	3	0	5	0	42	12	10	36	0	49.0	2.20	1.061	6.61	2.84	64.8	198.4	1.5
1923	8	7	3	3	0	4	0	61	26	8	33	2	53.7	4.36	1.286	5.53	3.25	82.4	90.6	0.7
1924	15	12	3	8	1	8	1	107	43	16	53	0	96.0	4.03	1.281	4.97	3.10	70.7	108.9	1.4
1928	4	3	3	1	0	2	0	32	14	5	16	2	28.0	4.50	1.321	5.14	3.77	85.9	97.7	0.3
1929	19	15	6	7	1	14	0	144	51	28	88	7	138.7	3.31	1.240	5.71	4.23	77.7	164.6	3.7
1930	17	15	11	5	0	13	1	104	41	22	116	6	131.3	2.81	.959	7.95	3.81	70.7	191.8	5.2
1931	11	11	6	2	0	7	0	59	21	25	54	1	78.3	2.41	1.072	6.20	2.95	80.1	152.3	2.4
1932	12	9	5	1	0	3	0	77	23	19	28	0	76.0	2.72	1.263	3.32	3.67	88.0	153.3	2.0

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

256

816

728

216

RBI

121

.2967

OBP

.3527

SLG

.4176

OPS

.7703

Pitching

G (P)

207

172

109

140

257th-most career CG

SHO

436th-most career SHO

1,517

SO (P)

1,033

BB allowed

339

ERA

2.569

53rd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1833

127th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.13

345th-highest career K/9

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1923-04-29	HIL @ NYL Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	0	4
1932-08-14	HOM @ CAG Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	0	0	3
1932-05-29	WPI @ DTW Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	2	1	2
1923-06-24	HIL @ NYL Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
1923-08-05	HIL @ NYL Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	2	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1923-08-23	NYL @ BBS Gameday	9.0	9	5	3	0	8	0
1932-05-14	HOM @ DTW Gameday	10.0	11	4	3	4	6	0
1923-06-24	HIL @ NYL Gameday	9.0	10	10	6	1	5	2
1923-06-16	NYL @ HIL Gameday	8.1	8	3	3	0	5	0
1923-09-09	BBS @ NYL Gameday	4.2	9	7	5	1	5	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

Hall of Fame, 1999 (Veterans)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.