MLB / Players

Lefty Williams

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 160 lb

BornMarch 9, 1893 · Aurora, MO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 17, 1913

Final gameSeptember 25, 1920

Seasons7 (1913–1920)

Detroit Tigers 1913–1914; Chicago White Sox 1916–1920

Percentile snapshot

1920 season — qualified pitchers

72.5

95.4

93.6

21.1

91.7

SHO

302

10.1

130

8.3

128

96.3

299.0

89.9

ERA

3.91

12.8

WHIP

1.311

37.6

K/9

3.85

66.1

FIP

3.72

18.3

FIP-

98.9

48.6

ERA+

96.1

30.3

sWAR

2.5

56.9

of 110 qualified 1920 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.3

sWAR

10.7

87.7

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1913	5	11	10	1	1	0	0	0	1	5	.100	.182	.100	.282	-18.0	-17.2	.158	-0.5
1914	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1916	43	82	74	5	10	2	1	4	7	30	.135	.220	.189	.409	20.2	24.0	.214	1.8
1917	45	81	67	5	6	0	1	2	8	19	.090	.187	.119	.306	-7.8	-6.8	.172	1.0
1918	15	42	38	4	5	0	0	2	1	14	.132	.154	.132	.285	-31.3	-13.7	.145	0.8
1919	41	115	94	10	17	2	2	10	9	28	.181	.252	.245	.497	36.9	40.2	.247	5.0
1920	39	116	101	5	22	2	1	11	7	16	.218	.269	.257	.526	38.5	40.3	.255	2.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1913	5	4	1	3	1	3	0	34	16	4	9	0	29.0	4.97	1.310	2.79	2.39	81.2	59.2	-0.5
1914	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	0	1.0	0.00	5.000	0.00	8.34	294.9	—	0.0
1916	43	26	13	7	1	10	2	220	72	65	138	5	224.3	2.89	1.270	5.54	2.36	85.0	96.2	1.8
1917	45	29	17	8	1	8	1	221	76	81	85	3	230.0	2.97	1.313	3.33	2.74	102.6	90.0	1.0
1918	15	14	6	4	1	7	2	76	32	47	30	0	105.7	2.73	1.164	2.56	3.07	111.6	100.9	0.8
1919	41	40	23	11	1	27	5	265	87	58	125	7	297.0	2.64	1.088	3.79	2.69	84.4	121.1	5.0
1920	39	38	22	14	0	25	0	302	130	90	128	15	299.0	3.91	1.311	3.85	3.72	98.9	96.1	2.5

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

190

447

384

RBI

112

.1589

OBP

.2273

SLG

.2005

OPS

.4278

Pitching

G (P)

189

152

SHO

1,186

SO (P)

515

BB allowed

347

ERA

3.134

224th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2378

282nd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.91

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	RBI	BB	TB
1919-04-23	CWS @ BAL Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	1	0	5
1919-05-11	CWS @ CLE Gameday	5	0	3	0	0	1	0	3
1916-09-04	CWS @ BAL Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	1	1	3
1920-09-25	CWS @ CLE Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	1	0	3
1917-07-04	CWS @ DET Gameday	4	0	1	0	1	1	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1916-07-04	BAL @ CWS Gameday	7.2	9	4	3	2	10	0
1920-04-14	DET @ CWS Gameday	11.0	4	2	2	4	8	1
1916-06-20	CWS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	3	8	1
1916-09-16	BOS @ CWS Gameday	9.0	7	4	2	0	8	0
1916-09-24	NYY @ CWS Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	2	8	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.