MLB / Players

Lefty Williams

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 6 in · 165 lb

BornSeptember 24, 1894 · Tanners, VA, USA

Seasons8 (1928–1935)

Homestead Grays 1928–1931; Detroit Wolves 1932; Homestead Grays 1932–1935

Percentile snapshot

1932 season — qualified pitchers

17.5

18.2

40.9

98.5

19.7

SHO

83.2

83.9

82.5

16.8

71.5

51.7

16.1

ERA

3.48

64.2

WHIP

1.297

K/9

4.18

FIP

4.07

46.7

FIP-

97.4

48.9

ERA+

119.9

67.2

sWAR

0.9

31.4

of 138 qualified 1932 pitchers (min 29 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.2

79.7

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1928	4	13	11	3	3	1	2	0	1	.273	.273	.364	.636	64.7	66.5	.287	0.6
1929	19	49	40	6	7	1	3	4	0	.175	.267	.200	.467	29.1	15.5	.238	0.8
1930	16	45	41	10	14	2	5	1	3	.341	.357	.390	.747	74.2	71.4	.339	2.3
1931	11	31	30	3	5	1	1	0	0	.167	.167	.200	.367	5.2	0.1	.166	0.6
1932	9	22	21	6	5	2	5	1	0	.238	.273	.333	.606	66.0	66.9	.287	0.9
1933	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-86.0	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1934	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-93.3	-100.0	.000	0.3
1935	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-86.9	-100.0	.000	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1928	4	3	2	1	2	0	22	10	5	11	1	25.7	3.51	1.052	3.86	3.80	86.5	125.3	0.6
1929	16	11	5	6	7	1	106	62	36	40	2	99.7	5.60	1.425	3.61	4.75	87.1	97.3	0.8
1930	14	10	9	1	7	1	94	44	24	39	0	92.7	4.27	1.273	3.79	4.44	82.5	126.1	2.3
1931	11	8	5	3	7	1	69	29	15	22	1	68.7	3.80	1.223	2.88	3.37	91.6	96.7	0.6
1932	9	7	7	0	5	1	51	20	16	24	1	51.7	3.48	1.297	4.18	4.07	97.4	119.9	0.9
1933	2	1	0	0	0	0	16	8	3	3	1	9.7	7.45	1.966	2.79	5.51	127.7	57.9	-0.3
1934	3	0	0	1	0	0	6	1	3	5	0	8.7	1.04	1.038	5.19	3.21	90.9	340.0	0.3
1935	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	3	4	0	2.7	6.75	3.000	13.50	4.43	86.8	75.5	0.0

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

166

149

RBI

.2282

OBP

.2628

SLG

.2752

OPS

.5380

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

359

SO (P)

148

BB allowed

105

ERA

4.408

WHIP

1.3191

K/9

3.71

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	RBI	BB	TB
1932-07-28	HOM @ BBS Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	0	2
1932-05-29	WPI @ DTW Gameday	1	1	1	1	2	1	2
1932-04-30	DTW @ CAG Gameday	5	0	1	1	1	0	2
1932-09-10	CAG @ HOM Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	0	1
1932-04-16	DTW @ HOM Gameday	3	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1932-09-10	CAG @ HOM Gameday	9.0	6	2	1	3	6
1935-08-12	HOM @ NE Gameday	2.2	5	3	2	3	4
1932-07-28	HOM @ BBS Gameday	10.0	8	4	3	3	3
1932-04-30	DTW @ CAG Gameday	9.0	10	4	4	1	3
1932-04-16	DTW @ HOM Gameday	5.0	8	3	2	3	3

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.