MLB / Players

William Louden

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornAugust 27, 1883 · Pittsburg, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 13, 1907

Final gameSeptember 18, 1916

Seasons6 (1907–1916)

New York Highlanders 1907; Detroit Tigers 1912–1913; Buffalo Buffeds 1914; Buffalo Blues 1915; Cincinnati Reds 1916

Percentile snapshot

1916 season — qualified batters

134

47.1

503

40.3

439

41.2

33.6

38.7

48.7

42.9

32.8

RBI

37.8

73.9

23.5

41.2

31.1

.219

10.1

OBP

.313

20.2

SLG

.280

12.6

OPS

.593

12.6

wRC+

86.7

20.2

OPS+

82.6

18.5

wOBA

.295

13.4

sWAR

1.3

49.6

of 120 qualified 1916 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

11.1

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1907	4	11	9	4	1	0	0	0	0	2	3	1	0	.111	.273	.111	.384	35.1	18.1	.228	0.0
1912	122	489	403	57	97	12	4	1	36	58	44	28	20	.241	.352	.298	.649	91.0	84.1	.330	1.3
1913	76	231	191	28	46	4	5	0	23	24	22	6	0	.241	.344	.314	.658	96.9	92.5	.332	0.8
1914	126	504	431	73	135	11	4	6	63	52	41	35	0	.313	.391	.399	.790	127.7	124.7	.379	4.0
1915	141	557	469	67	132	18	5	4	48	64	45	30	0	.281	.372	.367	.739	121.6	117.5	.361	3.7
1916	134	503	439	38	96	16	4	1	32	54	54	12	0	.219	.313	.280	.593	86.7	82.6	.295	1.3

Career totals

603

2,295

1,942

267

507

RBI

202

254

209

112

.2611

OBP

.3553

SLG

.3337

OPS

.6890

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
1912-07-06	DET @ CWS Gameday	5	0	4	0	1	2	6
1916-07-17	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	2	2	1	1	1	5
1912-09-27	DET @ CLE Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	2	4
1912-04-13	DET @ CLE Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	1	4
1916-06-06	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1907-04-11	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-13	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-15	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-16	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-17	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.