William Hutchinson played 9 seasons (1884–1897) for Kansas City Unions, CHC and STL. Career regular-season line: a 183–163 record, 1,234 strikeouts and a 3.59 ERA. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 1890.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
Cross-sport prominence: 96.1th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
Historical franchise
No continuous modern successor — attributed to the franchise itself, never folded into a modern club.
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Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
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Fan Rating
Rate William Hutchinson — All-Time
8 seasons · peak 24.6 in 1890 · league-best season: 1891
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
30.8 career wins over 8 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1890 · +9.4 wins
9.4 of CHC's 84 wins (11%)
Latest season · 1897 · −0.5 wins
STL's 29 wins · no wins above replacement this season
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia. Team wins are the club's actual regular-season wins, counted from pitcher decisions, which can miss a few games; a traded season, or one whose club record is missing, shows no share.
How often William Hutchinson led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Early Bloomer
Peaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot. Peak 1890, 8 rated seasons.
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