MLB / Players

Vic Willis

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornApril 12, 1876 · Cecil County, MD, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1898

Final gameSeptember 5, 1910

Seasons13 (1898–1910)

Boston Beaneaters 1898–1905; Pittsburgh Pirates 1906–1909; St. Louis Cardinals 1910

Percentile snapshot

1910 season — qualified pitchers

43.8

41.6

37.1

34.8

93.3

33.7

SHO

32.6

224

28.1

43.8

40.4

6.7

212.0

49.4

ERA

3.35

19.1

WHIP

1.344

19.1

K/9

2.84

13.5

FIP

2.99

42.7

FIP-

99.9

51.7

ERA+

89.3

23.6

sWAR

1.0

28.1

of 90 qualified 1910 pitchers (min 153 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

114.1

80.9

sWAR

53.6

99.1

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1898	41	132	117	9	17	0	0	0	6	11	23	0	.145	.231	.145	.376	22.5	8.1	.204	5.1
1899	41	142	134	14	29	3	0	0	16	4	9	0	.216	.245	.239	.483	37.3	32.6	.236	7.9
1900	32	95	88	8	12	2	1	0	11	3	10	0	.136	.174	.182	.356	5.1	-1.8	.175	0.7
1901	38	118	107	8	20	1	1	1	8	7	17	1	.187	.243	.243	.486	44.4	40.9	.239	6.4
1902	52	161	150	10	23	0	0	0	7	9	18	0	.153	.206	.153	.360	14.7	11.5	.188	6.2
1903	39	135	128	9	24	3	0	0	8	5	22	0	.188	.218	.211	.429	27.7	24.1	.211	3.2
1904	52	166	148	9	27	3	0	0	8	14	24	0	.182	.258	.203	.460	49.9	43.4	.236	2.9
1905	43	136	131	12	20	4	0	0	4	3	22	0	.153	.172	.183	.355	1.2	5.5	.172	2.2
1906	41	125	115	5	20	1	0	0	7	6	12	0	.174	.221	.183	.404	20.2	24.7	.207	7.2
1907	39	115	103	3	14	0	0	0	4	7	15	2	.136	.191	.136	.327	-3.4	2.5	.173	3.1
1908	41	110	103	9	17	1	0	0	1	3	8	0	.165	.189	.175	.363	6.5	16.4	.180	3.9
1909	39	116	103	6	14	1	1	0	2	7	11	0	.136	.191	.165	.356	6.7	10.5	.184	3.9
1910	33	72	66	5	11	0	1	0	2	2	8	0	.167	.191	.197	.388	4.9	13.8	.191	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
1898	41	38	25	13	0	29	1	264	98	148	160	5	311.0	2.84	1.325	4.63	3.65	101.4	127.0	5.1
1899	41	38	27	8	2	35	5	277	95	117	120	6	342.7	2.50	1.150	3.15	3.75	97.5	154.2	7.9
1900	32	29	10	17	0	22	2	258	110	106	53	11	236.0	4.19	1.542	2.02	4.48	121.4	88.1	0.7
1901	38	35	20	17	0	33	6	262	80	78	133	6	305.3	2.36	1.114	3.92	3.20	95.9	141.3	6.4
1902	51	46	27	20	3	45	4	372	100	101	225	6	410.0	2.20	1.154	4.94	2.47	89.5	125.4	6.2
1903	33	32	12	18	0	29	2	256	92	88	125	3	278.0	2.98	1.237	4.05	3.03	95.4	106.6	3.2
1904	43	43	18	25	0	39	2	357	111	109	196	7	350.0	2.85	1.331	5.04	2.53	93.9	94.3	2.9
1905	41	41	12	29	0	36	4	340	122	107	149	7	342.0	3.21	1.307	3.92	3.03	101.0	93.5	2.2
1906	41	36	23	13	1	32	6	295	62	76	124	0	322.0	1.73	1.152	3.47	2.24	83.6	154.8	7.2
1907	39	37	21	11	1	27	6	234	76	69	107	4	292.7	2.34	1.035	3.29	2.24	91.0	105.4	3.1
1908	41	38	23	11	0	25	7	239	70	69	97	2	304.7	2.07	1.011	2.87	2.14	91.6	112.9	3.9
1909	39	35	22	11	1	24	4	243	72	83	95	3	289.7	2.24	1.125	2.95	2.53	97.7	115.6	3.9
1910	33	23	9	12	3	12	1	224	79	61	67	6	212.0	3.35	1.344	2.84	2.99	99.9	89.3	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

531

1,623

1,493

107

248

RBI

199

.1661

OBP

.2130

SLG

.1862

OPS

.3992

Pitching

G (P)

513

415th-most career G (P)

471

74th-most career GS

249

50th-most career W

205

41st-most career L

388

19th-most career CG

SHO

19th-most career SHO

3,996

42nd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,651

179th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,212

49th-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.628

64th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2095

188th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.72

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
1901-09-20	ATL @ CHC Gameday	3	1	3	0	1	0	1	1	5
1901-06-10	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	1	3	0	5
1903-04-20	PHI @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	4
1910-05-01	STL @ CIN Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	4
1906-05-21	ATL @ PIT Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	BB	SO
1902-05-28	SF @ ATL Gameday	9.0	6	0	2	13
1904-09-22	STL @ ATL Gameday	9.0	6	2	3	12
1904-06-25	ATL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	6	6	5	11
1905-08-22	STL @ ATL Gameday	9.0	4	1	0	11
1904-05-30	ATL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	6	3	4	10

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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1995 (Veterans)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.