Walt Williams
Houston Colt .45's 1964; Chicago White Sox 1967–1972; Cleveland Indians 1973; New York Yankees 1974–1975
Percentile snapshot
1969 season — qualified batters
of 121 qualified 1969 batters (min 502 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -118.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1967 | 104 | 296 | 275 | 35 | 66 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 17 | 20 | 3 | 2 | .240 | .289 | .353 | .642 | 94.3 | 93.9 | .298 | 0.3 |
| 1968 | 63 | 142 | 133 | 6 | 32 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 1 | .241 | .271 | .308 | .580 | 68.7 | 75.2 | .268 | -0.3 |
| 1969 | 135 | 507 | 471 | 59 | 143 | 22 | 1 | 3 | 32 | 26 | 33 | 6 | 2 | .304 | .343 | .374 | .716 | 96.7 | 95.6 | .334 | 0.8 |
| 1970 | 110 | 340 | 315 | 43 | 79 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 19 | 30 | 3 | 3 | .251 | .296 | .343 | .639 | 70.6 | 72.5 | .296 | -0.5 |
| 1971 | 114 | 397 | 361 | 43 | 106 | 17 | 3 | 8 | 35 | 24 | 27 | 5 | 5 | .294 | .344 | .424 | .767 | 117.0 | 114.5 | .354 | 1.6 |
| 1972 | 77 | 236 | 221 | 22 | 55 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 20 | 6 | 1 | .249 | .289 | .317 | .606 | 76.5 | 79.7 | .286 | -0.2 |
| 1973 | 104 | 371 | 350 | 43 | 101 | 15 | 1 | 8 | 38 | 14 | 29 | 9 | 4 | .289 | .316 | .406 | .722 | 98.4 | 101.2 | .328 | 0.6 |
| 1974 | 43 | 56 | 53 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 0 | .113 | .127 | .113 | .240 | -44.3 | -29.4 | .115 | -1.0 |
| 1975 | 82 | 200 | 185 | 27 | 52 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 8 | 23 | 0 | 1 | .281 | .320 | .400 | .720 | 103.5 | 105.2 | .330 | 0.5 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971-06-20 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 1969-05-24 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1970-06-04 | CWS @ TEX Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1970-05-31 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 7 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1972-07-12 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
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.