Bill Stearns

William E. Stearns

Positions: Pitcher and Outfielder
Bats: Unknown, Throws: Right

Born: March 20, 1853 in Washington, DC (All Transactions)
Debut: June 26, 1871
Teams (by GP): DarkBlues/Nationals/BlueLegs/Olympics 1871-1875

Final Game: June 12, 1875
Died: December 30, 1898 in Washington, DC
Buried: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
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Standard Pitching

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1871	18	OLY	NA	2	0	1.000	2.50	2	2	0	2	0	0	18.0	10	11	5	0	8	0	0	0	75	172	1.000	5.0	0.0	4.0	0.0	0.00
1872	19	NAT	NA	0	11	.000	6.18	11	11	0	11	0	0	99.0	193	190	68	2	3	2	0	2	572	82	1.980	17.5	0.2	*0.3*	0.2	0.67
1873	20	WAS	NA	7	25	.219	4.61	32	32	0	32	0	0	283.0	481	395	145	8	16	5	0	8	1463	75	1.756	15.3	0.3	0.5	0.2	0.31
1874	21	HAR	NA	3	14	.176	2.95	22	18	3	14	0	0	158.2	237	194	52	0	15	14		3	813	78	1.588	13.4	*0.0*	0.9	0.8	0.93
1875	22	WAS	NA	1	14	.067	4.02	17	16	1	14	0	0	141.0	246	211	63	3	4	3	0	8	745	59	1.773	15.7	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.75
5 Yrs				13	64	.169	4.28	84	79	4	73	0	0	699.2	1167	1001	333	13	46	24	0	21	3668	75	1.734	15.0	0.2	0.6	0.3	0.52
162 Game Avg.				5	27	.169	4.28	35	33	2	30	0	0	292	487	418	139	5	19	10	0	9	1530	75	1.734	15.0	0.2	0.6	0.3	0.52

OLY (1 yr)				2	0	1.000	2.50	2	2	0	2	0	0	18.0	10	11	5	0	8	0	0	0	75	172	1.000	5.0	0.0	4.0	0.0	0.00
WAS (1 yr)				1	14	.067	4.02	17	16	1	14	0	0	141.0	246	211	63	3	4	3	0	8	745	59	1.773	15.7	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.75
NAT (1 yr)				0	11	.000	6.18	11	11	0	11	0	0	99.0	193	190	68	2	3	2	0	2	572	82	1.980	17.5	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.67
WAS (1 yr)				7	25	.219	4.61	32	32	0	32	0	0	283.0	481	395	145	8	16	5	0	8	1463	75	1.756	15.3	0.3	0.5	0.2	0.31
HAR (1 yr)				3	14	.176	2.95	22	18	3	14	0	0	158.2	237	194	52	0	15	14		3	813	78	1.588	13.4	0.0	0.9	0.8	0.93

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	IP	G	GS	R	RA9	RA9opp	RA9def	RA9role	PPFp	RA9avg	RAA	WAA	gmLI	WAAadj	WAR	RAR	waaWL%	162WL%	Salary
1871	18	OLY	NA	18.0	2	2	11	5.50	10.58	0.72	0.00	100.0	9.86	9	0.6		-0.0	0.7	10	.782	.503	$
1872	19	NAT	NA	99.0	11	11	190	17.27	9.32	-1.82	0.00	138.0	15.38	-20	-1.2		-0.2	-0.1	-14	.393	.493	$
1873	20	WAS	NA	283.0	32	32	395	12.56	9.18	-0.63	0.00	102.0	10.01	-78	-4.5		-0.5	-1.7	-58	.360	.472	$
1874	21	HAR	NA	158.2	22	18	194	11.00	7.54	-0.71	0.00	104.0	8.58	-42	-2.8	1.0	-0.2	-1.3	-31	.374	.483	$
1875	22	WAS	NA	141.0	17	16	211	13.47	6.23	-1.34	0.00	107.0	8.10	-82	-5.0	1.0	-0.3	-3.4	-74	.205	.469	$
5 Seasons				699.2	84	79	1001	12.88	8.27	-0.92	0.00	108.5	10.06	-213	-12.9	1.0	-1.2	-5.8	-168	.347	.484	$

OLY (1 yr)				18.0	2	2	11	5.50	10.58	0.72	0.00	100.0	9.86	9	0.6		-0.0	0.7	10	.782	.503	$
WAS (1 yr)				141.0	17	16	211	13.47	6.23	-1.34	0.00	107.0	8.10	-82	-5.0	1.0	-0.3	-3.4	-74	.205	.469	$
NAT (1 yr)				99.0	11	11	190	17.27	9.32	-1.82	0.00	138.0	15.38	-20	-1.2		-0.2	-0.1	-14	.393	.493	$
WAS (1 yr)				283.0	32	32	395	12.56	9.18	-0.63	0.00	102.0	10.01	-78	-4.5		-0.5	-1.7	-58	.360	.472	$
HAR (1 yr)				158.2	22	18	194	11.00	7.54	-0.71	0.00	104.0	8.58	-42	-2.8	1.0	-0.2	-1.3	-31	.374	.483	$

Cumulative Pitching

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	ERA+
1871	18	2	0	1.000	2.50	2	2	0	2	18.0	10	11	5	0	8	0	0	75	172	1.000	5.0	0.0	4.0	0.0	0.00	172
1872	19	2	11	.154	5.62	13	13	0	13	117.0	203	201	73	2	11	2	2	647	88	1.829	15.6	0.2	0.8	0.2	0.18	88
1873	20	9	36	.200	4.91	45	45	0	45	400.0	684	596	218	10	27	7	10	2110	80	1.778	15.4	0.2	0.6	0.2	0.26	80
1874	21	12	50	.194	4.35	67	63	3	59	558.2	921	790	270	10	42	21	13	2923	79	1.724	14.8	0.2	0.7	0.3	0.50	79
1875	22	13	64	.169	4.28	84	79	4	73	699.2	1167	1001	333	13	46	24	21	3668	75	1.734	15.0	0.2	0.6	0.3	0.52	75

Neutralized Pitching

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All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WHIP	H/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	HR/9	Gact
1871	18	13	0	1.000	0.72	125.0	33	11	10	0	26	0	0.472	2.4	1.9	0.0	0.00	0.0	2
1872	19	74	9	.892	1.37	748.0	554	127	114	6	9	15	0.753	6.7	0.1	0.2	1.67	0.1	11
1873	20	129	23	.849	1.68	1373.0	1228	286	257	20	41	24	0.924	8.0	0.3	0.2	0.59	0.1	32
1874	21	58	6	.906	1.27	580.0	498	91	82	0	32	51	0.914	7.7	0.5	0.8	1.59	0.0	22
1875	22	48	13	.787	2.11	551.0	615	143	129	8	10	12	1.134	10.0	0.2	0.2	1.20	0.1	17
5 Yrs		322	51	.863	1.58	3377.0	2928	658	592	34	118	102	0.902	7.8		0.3	0.86	0.1	84

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

WAR for Pitchers† s c a p y 1871 NA 0.7 (9th)	Earned Run Average s c a p y 1873 NA 4.61 (10th) 1874 NA 2.95 (9th)	Wins s c a p y 1871 NA 2 (10th) 1873 NA 7 (7th) 1874 NA 3 (10th)	Win-Loss % s c a p y 1873 NA .219 (9th) 1874 NA .176 (10th)
Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y 1873 NA 1.756 (9th) 1874 NA 1.588 (9th)	Hits per 9 IP s c a p y 1873 NA 15.297 (10th) 1874 NA 13.443 (9th)	Bases On Balls per 9 IP s c a p y 1872 NA 0.273 (1st) 1873 NA 0.509 (2nd) 1874 NA 0.851 (9th) 1875 NA 0.255 (6th)	Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y 1874 NA 0.794 (3rd)
Games Played s c a p y 1873 NA 32 (7th) 1874 NA 22 (9th)	Innings Pitched s c a p y 1873 NA 283.0 (7th) 1874 NA 158.7 (10th)	Strikeouts s c a p y 1873 NA 5 (9th) 1874 NA 14 (8th)	Games Started s c a p y 1872 NA 11 (10th) 1873 NA 32 (7th) 1874 NA 18 (10th)
Complete Games s c a p y 1871 NA 2 (10th) 1872 NA 11 (8th) 1873 NA 32 (7th) 1874 NA 14 (10th)	Home Runs s c a p y 1872 NA 2 (9th) 1873 NA 8 (1st) 1875 NA 3 (4th)	Bases on Balls s c a p y 1873 NA 16 (7th) 1874 NA 15 (7th)	Hits s c a p y 1872 NA 193 (9th) 1873 NA 481 (5th) 1874 NA 237 (9th)
Strikeouts / Base On Balls s c a p y 1872 NA 0.667 (8th) 1874 NA 0.933 (8th)	Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y 1873 NA 0.254 (9th) 1874 NA 0.000 (1st)	Losses s c a p y 1872 NA 11 (7th) 1873 NA 25 (2nd) 1874 NA 14 (10th) 1875 NA 14 (10th)	Earned Runs s c a p y 1872 NA 68 (8th) 1873 NA 145 (4th) 1874 NA 52 (9th) 1875 NA 63 (10th)
Wild Pitches s c a p y 1873 NA 8 (7th) 1874 NA 3 (9th)	Batters Faced s c a p y 1872 NA 572 (9th) 1873 NA 1,463 (7th) 1874 NA 813 (10th)	Games Finished s c a p y 1874 NA 3 (4th)	Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y 1872 NA 84 (10th) 1873 NA 75 (10th) 1874 NA 78 (9th)
Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y 1871 NA 4 (4th)	Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y 1871 NA 0.3 (4th)	Youngest s c a p y 1871 NA born 1853-03-20 (1st) 1872 NA born 1853-03-20 (6th) 1873 NA born 1853-03-20 (10th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black Ink	Pitching - 2 (744), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray Ink	Pitching - 65 (395), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 1 (1951), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 10 (838), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

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John Coleman (927)
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Sam Moffet (919)
Art Delaney (917)
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* - Signifies Hall of Famer

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