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Pop Williams

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 190 lb

BornMay 19, 1874 · Bowdoinham, ME, USA

MLB debutSeptember 14, 1898

Final gameSeptember 15, 1903

Seasons3 (1898–1903)

Washington Senators 1898; Chicago Orphans 1902; Boston Beaneaters 1903; Chicago Cubs 1903; Philadelphia Phillies 1903

Percentile snapshot

1902 season — qualified pitchers

53.5

29.6

26.8

57.7

SHO

22.5

267

36.6

56.3

46.5

71.8

77.5

263.3

54.9

ERA

2.49

73.2

WHIP

1.253

54.9

K/9

3.38

FIP

2.66

78.9

FIP-

96.1

60.6

ERA+

110.9

56.3

sWAR

3.8

67.6

of 72 qualified 1902 pitchers (min 143 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.4

75.1

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
1898	2	9	8	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	.375	.444	.500	.944	161.6	170.0	.453	-0.6
1902	39	137	120	14	25	2	2	13	11	13	.208	.291	.258	.549	74.4	69.7	.281	3.8
1903	18	53	51	4	12	0	0	5	0	1	.235	.250	.235	.485	41.9	39.0	.235	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1898	2	2	0	2	2	0	32	16	7	3	0	17.0	8.47	2.294	1.59	3.65	101.3	42.5	-0.6
1902	32	32	11	16	27	1	267	73	63	99	1	263.3	2.49	1.253	3.38	2.66	96.1	110.9	3.8
1903	13	13	5	7	12	1	127	47	43	30	3	106.0	3.99	1.604	2.55	4.03	126.8	79.7	0.1

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

199

179

RBI

.2235

OBP

.2872

SLG

.2626

OPS

.5498

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

386

SO (P)

132

BB allowed

113

ERA

3.168

WHIP

1.3952

K/9

3.08

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	TB
1902-06-30	CHC @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	3	5
1902-08-17	SF @ CHC Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	0	4
1902-08-23	ATL @ CHC Gameday	6	1	3	0	0	2	3
1902-05-08	SF @ CHC Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	3
1902-07-12	PHI @ CHC Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1902-08-07	CHC @ SF Gameday	13.0	10	3	3	7	6	0
1902-07-20	PIT @ CHC Gameday	12.0	16	8	6	7	6	1
1902-08-29	CHC @ PIT Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	2	6	0
1902-07-29	CHC @ ATL Gameday	8.0	8	6	2	1	6	0
1902-06-04	CHC @ SF Gameday	9.1	7	4	3	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.