Willie Powell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 153 lb

BornOctober 30, 1903 · Eutaw, AL, USA

Seasons9 (1925–1934)

Chicago American Giants 1925–1928; Detroit Stars 1930–1931; Chicago American Giants 1932; Akron Grays / Cleveland Giants 1933; Chicago American Giants 1933; Cleveland Red Sox 1934

Percentile snapshot

1933 season — qualified pitchers

32.3

23.2

39.4

72.7

22.2

SHO

38.4

68.7

71.7

81.8

32.3

87.9

90.0

30.3

ERA

3.60

47.5

WHIP

1.267

65.7

K/9

4.30

67.7

FIP

3.64

61.6

FIP-

84.4

91.9

ERA+

119.8

68.7

sWAR

1.4

38.4

of 100 qualified 1933 pitchers (min 53 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

11.9

88.7

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1925	4	11	11	1	2	1	0	1	0	0	.182	.182	.273	.455	24.8	20.4	.201	0.5
1926	10	24	22	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	.091	.091	.091	.182	-48.4	-53.0	.084	0.1
1927	20	60	56	6	12	1	0	2	3	0	.214	.254	.232	.486	33.7	31.8	.233	3.3
1928	18	54	47	2	7	1	0	4	4	1	.149	.216	.170	.386	15.7	6.5	.193	4.3
1930	19	47	39	3	6	0	0	3	5	0	.154	.250	.154	.404	26.2	9.9	.211	1.1
1931	17	35	33	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	.091	.118	.091	.209	-31.4	-41.6	.107	0.0
1932	14	46	36	3	7	1	1	4	3	0	.194	.256	.306	.562	72.9	71.1	.272	2.1
1933	16	39	34	5	5	0	0	2	3	0	.147	.216	.147	.363	15.9	0.6	.184	1.4
1934	3	6	5	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	.600	.600	.600	1.200	225.3	236.9	.566	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1925	4	3	2	2	0	3	0	20	14	11	23	0	29.0	4.34	1.069	7.14	4.57	87.1	120.8	0.5
1926	10	10	4	4	0	1	0	63	31	25	40	1	55.0	5.07	1.600	6.55	3.77	80.5	92.4	0.1
1927	18	18	12	4	0	10	4	124	41	40	78	4	140.3	2.63	1.169	5.00	3.38	84.8	151.5	3.3
1928	18	17	9	6	1	13	5	117	32	30	102	6	135.0	2.13	1.089	6.80	3.45	80.6	200.3	4.3
1930	19	14	7	7	1	8	1	123	59	33	63	7	117.7	4.51	1.326	4.82	4.48	98.3	101.0	1.1
1931	16	14	5	9	0	11	2	102	50	38	56	4	92.0	4.89	1.522	5.48	4.30	102.1	86.1	0.0
1932	14	11	7	4	0	9	2	107	37	32	35	1	108.7	3.06	1.279	2.90	3.96	106.3	121.6	2.1
1933	16	9	8	4	0	6	1	98	36	16	43	1	90.0	3.60	1.267	4.30	3.64	84.4	119.8	1.4
1934	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	17	12	1	1	0	4.7	23.14	3.857	1.93	4.28	94.9	19.5	-0.8

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

121

322

283

RBI

.1661

OBP

.2185

SLG

.1908

OPS

.4093

Pitching

G (P)

117

SHO

396th-most career SHO

772

SO (P)

441

BB allowed

226

ERA

3.636

WHIP

1.2909

K/9

5.14

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	HR	RBI	TB
1932-09-07	HOM @ CAG Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	2	6
1933-07-06	BBS @ CAG Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	3
1930-07-19	DTS @ MEM Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	1	2
1934-06-03	BEG @ CRS Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	0	2
1930-08-17	CUB @ DTS Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1933-07-06	BBS @ CAG Gameday	9.0	9	3	2	1	12	0
1931-07-21	DTS @ SLS Gameday	8.0	8	6	5	1	11	1
1930-08-30	KCM @ DTS Gameday	10.0	10	5	5	1	9	1
1930-06-15	BBB @ DTS Gameday	9.0	11	7	5	1	9	1
1931-05-17	CAG @ DTS Gameday	9.0	11	3	1	4	9	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.