Win Ballou
Washington Senators 1925; St. Louis Browns 1926–1927; Brooklyn Robins 1929
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .286 | .429 | -4.7 | 8.4 | .187 | 0.2 |
| 1926 | 43 | 51 | 42 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .048 | .149 | .119 | .268 | -40.9 | -31.6 | .146 | 0.4 |
| 1927 | 21 | 30 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .036 | .069 | .071 | .140 | -79.6 | -64.3 | .072 | 0.1 |
| 1929 | 25 | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .063 | .063 | .063 | .125 | -81.7 | -68.5 | .057 | -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 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 38 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 27.7 | 4.55 | 1.843 | 4.23 | 4.05 | 95.3 | 93.3 | 0.2 |
| 1926 | 43 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 186 | 82 | 71 | 59 | 12 | 154.0 | 4.79 | 1.669 | 3.45 | 4.63 | 108.5 | 89.0 | 0.4 |
| 1927 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 105 | 48 | 46 | 17 | 4 | 90.3 | 4.78 | 1.672 | 1.69 | 4.82 | 111.7 | 90.3 | 0.1 |
| 1929 | 25 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 43 | 38 | 20 | 5 | 57.7 | 6.71 | 1.855 | 3.12 | 5.72 | 124.5 | 68.5 | -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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926-08-07 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1925-09-05 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1927-05-14 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1926-06-07 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1929-05-12 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926-09-16 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 8.0 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 1926-08-07 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 1926-05-31 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 5.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 1925-09-30 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 8.0 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1926-07-09 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 7.2 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 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.