Willie Ferrell
Birmingham Black Barons 1937; Jacksonville Red Caps 1938; Cleveland Bears 1939; Homestead Grays 1939–1940; Chicago American Giants 1941–1943
Percentile snapshot
1942 season — qualified pitchers
of 109 qualified 1942 pitchers (min 44 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 14 | 36 | 33 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .294 | .394 | .688 | 87.5 | 88.8 | .313 | -0.1 |
| 1938 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .357 | .400 | .357 | .757 | 117.7 | 119.0 | .364 | 0.8 |
| 1939 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | 14.1 | 11.4 | .187 | 0.3 |
| 1940 | 11 | 16 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .533 | .867 | 113.6 | 122.9 | .388 | 0.3 |
| 1941 | 6 | 17 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .176 | .125 | .301 | 1.9 | -10.1 | .158 | 0.6 |
| 1942 | 20 | 46 | 45 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .289 | .304 | .289 | .593 | 77.6 | 77.1 | .282 | 0.0 |
| 1943 | 7 | 26 | 25 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .231 | .280 | .511 | 56.7 | 56.5 | .245 | 0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 65 | 37 | 22 | 24 | 3 | 55.7 | 5.98 | 1.563 | 3.88 | 5.33 | 119.0 | 74.8 | -0.1 |
| 1938 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 25.7 | 2.45 | 1.325 | 3.16 | 5.19 | 121.8 | 173.7 | 0.8 |
| 1939 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 22.7 | 4.37 | 1.412 | 3.57 | 4.12 | 88.6 | 106.4 | 0.3 |
| 1940 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 20 | 16 | 10 | 0 | 31.3 | 5.74 | 1.468 | 2.87 | 5.02 | 96.2 | 90.9 | 0.3 |
| 1941 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 38 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 0 | 37.7 | 2.87 | 1.274 | 3.82 | 3.61 | 97.2 | 129.5 | 0.6 |
| 1942 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 79 | 34 | 24 | 18 | 4 | 60.0 | 5.10 | 1.717 | 2.70 | 5.11 | 126.1 | 79.5 | 0.0 |
| 1943 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9.0 | 0.00 | .444 | 1.00 | 3.60 | 95.7 | — | 0.4 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-07-12 | BEG @ HOM Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1937-05-16 | SLS @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1943-05-26 | CAG @ IC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1942-08-18 | HOM @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1937-08-16 | SLS @ BBB Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-06-12 | BBB @ SLS Gameday | 8.2 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 1 |
| 1938-06-04 | JRC @ CAG Gameday | 11.2 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 1 |
| 1941-09-03 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 8.2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1942-08-18 | HOM @ CAG Gameday | 8.0 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 1942-08-23 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 13.2 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
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.