MLB / Players

Will White

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 175 lb

BornOctober 11, 1854 · Caton, NY, USA

MLB debutJuly 20, 1877

Final gameJuly 5, 1886

Seasons10 (1877–1886)

Boston Red Caps 1877; Cincinnati Reds 1878–1880; Detroit Wolverines 1881; Cincinnati Red Stockings 1882–1886

Percentile snapshot

1879 season — qualified batters

44.1

300

30.5

294

32.2

11.9

10.2

RBI

8.5

49.2

.136

OBP

.153

SLG

.156

OPS

.310

wRC+

28.9

OPS+

2.1

wOBA

.143

sWAR

8.4

96.6

of 60 qualified 1879 batters (min 251 PA) · 2 stats not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

1885 season — qualified pitchers

45.2

54.8

47.6

SHO

45.2

295

54.8

115

28.6

42.9

28.6

293.3

ERA

3.53

33.3

WHIP

1.224

38.1

K/9

2.45

7.1

FIP

3.87

7.1

FIP-

119.3

9.5

ERA+

91.9

35.7

sWAR

1.8

40.5

of 43 qualified 1885 pitchers (min 112 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

122.0

91.3

sWAR

49.5

98.8

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1877	3	15	15	4	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	44.3	26.0	.185	0.2
1878	52	205	197	15	28	1	1	0	9	8	41	.142	.176	.157	.333	36.6	10.0	.162	6.1
1879	76	300	294	28	40	6	0	0	17	6	56	.136	.153	.156	.310	28.9	2.1	.143	8.4
1880	62	213	207	16	35	7	1	0	14	6	29	.169	.192	.213	.405	51.6	36.3	.186	5.7
1881	2	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-60.4	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1882	54	212	207	28	55	4	0	0	25	5	0	.266	.283	.285	.568	93.5	91.3	.263	11.0
1883	65	256	240	38	54	4	3	0	23	16	0	.225	.273	.267	.540	83.9	74.0	.254	12.7
1884	52	195	184	28	35	1	2	1	11	10	0	.190	.236	.234	.470	68.4	53.6	.221	4.0
1885	34	124	118	9	20	5	0	0	10	4	0	.169	.210	.212	.422	52.0	33.4	.202	1.8
1886	3	10	9	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	.111	.200	.111	.311	33.1	-1.3	.171	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1877	3	3	2	1	3	1	27	9	2	7	0	27.0	3.00	1.074	2.33	2.54	90.6	93.6	0.2
1878	52	52	30	21	52	5	477	93	45	169	1	468.0	1.79	1.115	3.25	2.13	92.4	128.8	6.1
1879	76	75	43	31	75	4	676	150	68	232	10	680.0	1.99	1.094	3.07	2.55	102.1	125.7	8.4
1880	62	62	18	42	58	3	550	123	56	161	9	517.3	2.14	1.171	2.80	2.46	103.7	110.9	5.7
1881	2	2	0	2	2	0	24	10	2	5	0	18.0	5.00	1.444	2.50	2.46	88.8	55.5	-0.3
1882	54	54	40	12	52	8	411	82	71	122	3	480.0	1.54	1.004	2.29	2.65	98.8	174.5	11.0
1883	65	65	43	22	64	6	473	134	104	141	16	577.0	2.09	1.000	2.20	3.67	111.3	157.8	12.7
1884	52	52	34	18	52	7	479	168	74	118	16	456.0	3.32	1.213	2.33	3.97	122.3	97.8	4.0
1885	34	34	18	15	33	2	295	115	64	80	9	293.3	3.53	1.224	2.45	3.87	119.3	91.9	1.8
1886	3	3	1	2	3	0	28	12	10	6	1	26.0	4.15	1.462	2.08	5.00	145.4	82.9	0.0

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

403

1,537

1,478

167

271

RBI

111

128

.1834

OBP

.2147

SLG

.2138

OPS

.4285

Pitching

G (P)

403

402

140th-most career GS

229

67th-most career W

166

101st-most career L

394

17th-most career CG

SHO

63rd-most career SHO

3,543

70th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,041

BB allowed

496

ERA

2.276

16th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1110

33rd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

2.64

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.