MLB / Players

Willie Adams

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 4 in · 180 lb
BornSeptember 27, 1890 · Clearfield, PA, USA
MLB debutJune 30, 1912
Final gameSeptember 6, 1919
Seasons5 (1912–1919)

St. Louis Browns 1912–1913; Pittsburgh Rebels 1914; Philadelphia Athletics 1918–1919

Percentile snapshot

1918 season — qualified pitchers

G
32
69.9
GS
14
25.8
W
5
19.4
L
12
28
SV
0
0
CG
7
21.5
SHO
0
0
H
164
45.2
ER
83
2.2
BB
97
4.3
SO
39
31.2
HR
2
31.2
IP
169.0
51.6
ERA
4.42
8.6
WHIP
1.544
4.3
K/9
2.08
10.8
FIP
3.79
8.6
FIP-
132.4
3.2
ERA+
64.7
2.2
sWAR
-2.1
0

of 94 qualified 1918 pitchers (min 130 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-2.8
0.6

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19121313130000000900.000.000.000.000-104.6-100.0.000-0.1
19134210000001100.000.500.000.500135.649.8.388-0.7
19141515151101000000.067.067.200.267-44.2-25.7.1160.1
191832605738100221600.140.169.158.327-20.5-2.9.166-2.1
19191220000000100.000.000.000.000-131.3-100.0.0000.0

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19121352300050201916046.33.881.4893.113.62110.084.7-0.1
1913400000012104519.010.001.7785.005.16178.428.9-0.7
19141521121070232214455.33.741.6632.284.39137.085.70.1
191832145120701648397392169.04.421.5442.083.79132.464.7-2.1
19191000000722014.73.861.9290.007.24219.585.60.0

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

G
65
PA
92
AB
88
R
4
H
9
2B
1
3B
1
HR
0
RBI
2
BB
3
SO
27
SB
0
BA
.1023
OBP
.1319
SLG
.1364
OPS
.2683

Pitching

G (P)
65
GS
21
W
8
L
16
SV
2
CG
8
SHO
0
IP
284
SO (P)
74
BB allowed
144
ERA
4.368
WHIP
1.5721
K/9
2.34

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1918-08-26CLE @ ATH Gameday403100104
1918-08-04ATH @ CWS Gameday412000002
1918-06-11ATH @ DET Gameday311000101
1918-06-04ATH @ BAL Gameday401000001
1918-07-01NYY @ ATH Gameday201000001

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1918-06-04ATH @ BAL Gameday9.0411250
1918-08-26CLE @ ATH Gameday9.01155940
1918-08-22CWS @ ATH Gameday9.0620330
1912-07-31BOS @ BAL Gameday8.0640330
1918-07-20CLE @ ATH Gameday7.1731230

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.