Tom Williams

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

BornSeptember 28, 1896 · Charleston, SC, USA

Seasons8 (1917–1924)

Chicago American Giants 1917; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1918; Hilldale Club 1918; Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1919; Hilldale Club 1919; Chicago American Giants 1920–1921; New York Lincoln Giants 1922; Chicago American Giants 1923–1924; Detroit Stars 1924

Percentile snapshot

1924 season — qualified pitchers

51.5

8.5

20.8

76.2

97.7

4.6

SHO

113

76.9

70.8

71.5

29.2

56.9

119.0

26.9

ERA

4.08

36.2

WHIP

1.227

80.8

K/9

3.40

61.5

FIP

4.31

33.1

FIP-

100.6

40.8

ERA+

104.8

42.3

sWAR

1.4

33.1

of 131 qualified 1924 pitchers (min 77 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

11.8

88.6

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1917	16	49	41	1	6	1	0	4	0	0	.146	.222	.171	.393	32.6	28.5	.209	2.9
1918	11	28	26	1	5	0	1	1	0	0	.192	.222	.192	.415	20.3	18.2	.210	0.3
1919	11	23	21	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	.095	.095	.143	.238	-29.1	-27.4	.113	0.4
1920	22	56	46	1	9	0	3	3	0	0	.196	.245	.196	.441	38.6	32.3	.225	3.9
1921	27	52	50	1	4	0	2	0	0	0	.080	.080	.080	.160	-44.3	-54.8	.075	1.6
1922	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	—	1.000	—	—	339.0	—	.757	-0.5
1923	20	32	28	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	.071	.071	.071	.143	-51.6	-62.6	.066	1.9
1924	31	42	32	2	5	0	0	7	3	2	.156	.308	.156	.464	52.1	29.1	.258	1.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1917	16	14	13	2	1	12	3	77	18	29	57	2	126.7	1.28	.837	4.05	2.10	94.8	172.8	2.9
1918	9	7	1	3	0	2	0	58	21	18	21	1	55.7	3.40	1.365	3.40	3.39	103.3	96.8	0.3
1919	11	8	4	4	0	5	2	50	24	16	27	1	64.3	3.36	1.026	3.78	3.23	95.2	101.1	0.4
1920	22	16	11	4	3	14	2	123	35	35	58	2	148.0	2.13	1.068	3.53	3.28	91.3	168.6	3.9
1921	27	15	13	7	0	11	2	129	52	34	66	5	137.7	3.40	1.184	4.31	3.75	94.8	116.4	1.6
1922	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	13	10	3	6	0	6.3	14.21	2.526	8.53	4.17	95.3	30.8	-0.5
1923	20	8	9	1	0	5	1	92	31	35	23	1	94.0	2.97	1.351	2.20	4.12	93.7	148.1	1.9
1924	30	9	6	5	6	4	0	113	54	33	45	5	119.0	4.08	1.227	3.40	4.31	100.6	104.8	1.4

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

141

283

244

RBI

.1352

OBP

.1885

SLG

.1434

OPS

.3319

Pitching

G (P)

138

SHO

752

SO (P)

303

BB allowed

203

ERA

2.933

WHIP

1.1415

K/9

3.63

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	RBI	TB
1921-06-26	CAG @ ABC Gameday	3	1	2	1	2
1920-08-01	CAG @ KCM Gameday	2	0	2	0	2
1920-05-23	KCM @ CAG Gameday	2	0	1	1	1
1920-07-18	DAY @ CAG Gameday	3	0	1	1	1
1920-09-12	DTS @ CAG Gameday	3	0	1	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1921-09-08	CAG @ KCM Gameday	9.0	12	5	4	1	8	1
1920-05-23	KCM @ CAG Gameday	7.0	5	1	1	2	7	0
1921-08-07	CUB @ CAG Gameday	10.0	8	2	1	2	6	0
1920-08-01	CAG @ KCM Gameday	8.0	7	4	3	2	6	0
1920-06-28	CAG @ ABC Gameday	10.0	7	8	4	3	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.