Willie Simms
Chicago American Giants 1937; Cincinnati Tigers 1937; Kansas City Monarchs 1937; Chicago American Giants 1938; Kansas City Monarchs 1938; Chicago American Giants 1939–1940; Kansas City Monarchs 1941–1943
Percentile snapshot
1942 season — qualified batters
of 147 qualified 1942 batters (min 155 PA)
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 | 35 | 133 | 123 | 16 | 33 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 0 | .268 | .297 | .358 | .655 | 81.7 | 80.4 | .301 | 0.1 |
| 1938 | 21 | 101 | 91 | 13 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .242 | .296 | .297 | .593 | 76.0 | 71.1 | .286 | 0.1 |
| 1939 | 34 | 155 | 134 | 20 | 42 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 0 | 6 | 1 | .313 | .387 | .448 | .834 | 137.7 | 142.1 | .394 | 1.1 |
| 1940 | 19 | 85 | 76 | 14 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .224 | .306 | .316 | .622 | 89.3 | 87.5 | .311 | 0.2 |
| 1941 | 41 | 176 | 154 | 27 | 32 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 21 | 0 | 8 | 0 | .208 | .307 | .260 | .567 | 77.5 | 68.6 | .289 | 0.0 |
| 1942 | 48 | 220 | 206 | 35 | 45 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 0 | .218 | .265 | .296 | .561 | 69.3 | 66.8 | .267 | -0.3 |
| 1943 | 31 | 114 | 97 | 12 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .165 | .270 | .206 | .476 | 59.0 | 47.0 | .249 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.3 | 13.50 | 3.000 | 0.00 | 3.51 | 88.6 | 29.3 | 1.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-07-20 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1941-08-11 | KCM @ HSL Gameday | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1942-05-30 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1939-05-22 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1938-07-24 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-05-09 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-09 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-09 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-09 | DTS @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-09 | KCM @ BBB 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.