Milt Watson
St. Louis Cardinals 1916–1917; Philadelphia Phillies 1918–1919
Percentile snapshot
1917 season — qualified pitchers
of 91 qualified 1917 pitchers (min 154 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 18 | 34 | 32 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .219 | .242 | .219 | .461 | 31.6 | 40.8 | .223 | 0.5 |
| 1917 | 41 | 51 | 51 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .098 | .098 | .118 | .216 | -54.4 | -33.8 | .101 | -0.7 |
| 1918 | 23 | 41 | 40 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .075 | .075 | .075 | .150 | -84.0 | -55.9 | .072 | -0.1 |
| 1919 | 8 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .063 | .063 | .063 | .125 | -95.7 | -64.0 | .059 | -1.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 18 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 109 | 35 | 33 | 27 | 3 | 103.0 | 3.06 | 1.379 | 2.36 | 3.24 | 121.8 | 86.9 | 0.5 |
| 1917 | 41 | 20 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 149 | 63 | 51 | 45 | 3 | 161.3 | 3.51 | 1.240 | 2.51 | 3.18 | 118.7 | 76.3 | -0.7 |
| 1918 | 23 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 126 | 43 | 36 | 29 | 1 | 112.7 | 3.43 | 1.438 | 2.32 | 2.91 | 98.0 | 86.5 | -0.1 |
| 1919 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 51 | 27 | 19 | 12 | 3 | 47.0 | 5.17 | 1.489 | 2.30 | 4.10 | 129.2 | 61.4 | -1.0 |
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917-04-14 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1916-09-19 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1917-05-25 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1918-07-07 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1916-08-05 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918-07-17 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 20.0 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| 1917-04-14 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1918-06-20 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1917-05-29 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1919-06-10 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 7.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 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.