Willie Wells Jr.
Chicago American Giants 1944; Memphis Red Sox 1944–1948
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 14 | 26 | 20 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .150 | .250 | .150 | .400 | 37.2 | 25.0 | .216 | -0.1 |
| 1945 | 15 | 41 | 39 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .195 | .282 | .477 | 43.2 | 38.6 | .224 | -0.1 |
| 1946 | 12 | 45 | 38 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .289 | .341 | .342 | .684 | 101.1 | 101.7 | .336 | 0.2 |
| 1947 | 19 | 69 | 63 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .175 | .246 | .222 | .469 | 37.1 | 26.5 | .236 | -0.3 |
| 1948 | 12 | 38 | 34 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .147 | .216 | .176 | .393 | 18.4 | 6.0 | .199 | -0.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-08-27 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1946-08-18 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1945-09-02 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1945-07-16 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1947-05-30 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-05-05 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-05-07 | BBB @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-05-07 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-05-07 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-05-07 | BBB @ CAG 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.