Ollie West
Chicago American Giants 1942–1943; Homestead Grays 1943; Chicago American Giants 1944–1945
Percentile snapshot
1942 season — qualified pitchers
of 109 qualified 1942 pitchers (min 44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 13 | 27 | 25 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .160 | .192 | .160 | .352 | 14.1 | 5.5 | .173 | -0.6 |
| 1943 | 7 | 16 | 16 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .375 | .375 | .563 | .938 | 157.5 | 186.4 | .436 | 0.4 |
| 1944 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 203.7 | 210.2 | .480 | -0.2 |
| 1945 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .333 | .273 | .606 | 85.0 | 78.5 | .299 | 0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 73 | 39 | 20 | 16 | 2 | 61.3 | 5.72 | 1.516 | 2.35 | 4.62 | 114.0 | 70.9 | -0.6 |
| 1943 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 40 | 19 | 15 | 20 | 3 | 39.3 | 4.35 | 1.398 | 4.58 | 4.97 | 122.2 | 91.4 | 0.4 |
| 1944 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 10.0 | 6.30 | 1.800 | 5.40 | 3.80 | 112.9 | 53.4 | -0.2 |
| 1945 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 12 | 18 | 9 | 0 | 27.3 | 3.95 | 1.500 | 2.96 | 5.40 | 127.4 | 107.3 | 0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-08-10 | BEG @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1943-08-23 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1945-08-20 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1944-05-11 | IC @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1942-07-02 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-08-10 | BEG @ CAG Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 0 |
| 1945-08-20 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1944-05-11 | IC @ CAG Gameday | 8.0 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| 1942-07-08 | CAG @ CLB Gameday | 11.1 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1943-08-23 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 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.