Bill Butler
Kansas City Royals 1969–1971; Cleveland Indians 1972; Minnesota Twins 1974–1975; Minnesota Twins 1977
Percentile snapshot
1969 season — qualified pitchers
of 79 qualified 1969 pitchers (min 163 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 34 | 70 | 60 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 38 | 0 | 0 | .050 | .123 | .050 | .173 | -60.7 | -50.0 | .101 | 0.9 |
| 1970 | 25 | 49 | 44 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 31 | 0 | 0 | .045 | .125 | .045 | .170 | -60.4 | -50.8 | .101 | 1.0 |
| 1971 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .083 | .077 | .083 | .160 | -82.3 | -54.1 | .072 | 0.3 |
| 1972 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -145.0 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.4 |
| 1974 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.5 |
| 1975 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -1.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 34 | 29 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 174 | 84 | 91 | 156 | 15 | 193.7 | 3.90 | 1.368 | 7.25 | 3.21 | 87.9 | 93.6 | 0.9 |
| 1970 | 25 | 25 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 117 | 59 | 87 | 75 | 17 | 140.7 | 3.77 | 1.450 | 4.80 | 4.81 | 129.4 | 98.5 | 1.0 |
| 1971 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 17 | 18 | 32 | 6 | 44.3 | 3.45 | 1.421 | 6.50 | 3.89 | 114.1 | 98.9 | 0.3 |
| 1972 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 11.7 | 1.54 | 1.629 | 4.63 | 4.93 | 155.3 | 205.6 | 0.4 |
| 1974 | 26 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 91 | 45 | 56 | 79 | 9 | 98.7 | 4.10 | 1.490 | 7.21 | 3.89 | 104.3 | 90.8 | 0.5 |
| 1975 | 23 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100 | 54 | 35 | 55 | 12 | 81.7 | 5.95 | 1.653 | 6.06 | 4.41 | 114.5 | 64.6 | -1.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 16 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 21.0 | 6.86 | 1.619 | 2.14 | 7.65 | 189.3 | 58.9 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969-06-20 | KC @ MIL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1970-05-24 | MIL @ KC Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1970-07-11 | CWS @ KC Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1969-04-25 | LAA @ KC Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1969-07-02 | LAA @ KC Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969-07-20 | KC @ CWS Gameday | 10.0 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 0 |
| 1969-07-15 | KC @ LAA Gameday | 8.0 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
| 1969-09-05 | KC @ MIL Gameday | 6.0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 2 |
| 1970-06-16 | BOS @ KC Gameday | 8.0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 1 |
| 1969-08-09 | KC @ CLE Gameday | 9.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 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.