MLB / Players

Bill Freehan

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 203 lb

BornNovember 29, 1941 · Detroit, MI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 26, 1961

Final gameOctober 3, 1976

Seasons15 (1961–1976)

Detroit Tigers 1961; Detroit Tigers 1963–1976

Percentile snapshot

1974 season — qualified batters

130

9.9

502

445

3.1

19.1

132

13.7

65.6

70.2

RBI

32.8

92.4

.297

82.4

OBP

.361

SLG

.479

91.6

OPS

.840

87.8

wRC+

139.2

88.5

OPS+

136.4

85.5

wOBA

.384

sWAR

4.0

77.1

of 132 qualified 1974 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

113.7

69.1

OPS+

113.0

68.5

sWAR

48.7

98.7

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1961	4	11	10	1	4	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	0	.400	.455	.400	.855	139.4	130.2	.400	0.1
1963	100	345	300	37	73	12	2	9	36	39	56	2	0	.243	.331	.387	.718	98.8	98.4	.324	1.6
1964	144	572	520	69	156	14	8	18	80	36	68	5	1	.300	.350	.462	.812	124.5	123.0	.360	4.9
1965	130	485	431	45	101	15	0	10	43	39	63	4	2	.234	.306	.339	.645	81.8	82.8	.297	1.8
1966	136	544	492	47	115	22	0	12	46	40	72	5	2	.234	.294	.352	.646	79.3	83.6	.289	1.7
1967	155	618	517	66	146	23	1	20	74	73	71	1	2	.282	.389	.447	.835	147.4	144.8	.379	6.8
1968	155	635	540	73	142	24	2	25	84	65	64	0	1	.263	.366	.454	.819	154.6	145.9	.379	7.5
1969	143	555	489	61	128	16	3	16	49	53	55	1	2	.262	.342	.405	.747	106.5	105.9	.344	3.2
1970	117	458	395	44	95	17	3	16	52	52	48	0	3	.241	.332	.420	.752	106.0	106.3	.341	2.9
1971	148	586	516	57	143	26	4	21	71	54	48	2	7	.277	.353	.465	.818	129.8	129.2	.371	5.4
1972	111	430	374	51	98	18	2	10	56	48	51	0	1	.262	.354	.401	.755	132.8	123.6	.360	4.2
1973	110	435	380	33	89	10	1	6	29	40	30	0	0	.234	.323	.313	.636	78.1	76.1	.304	1.1
1974	130	502	445	58	132	17	5	18	60	42	44	2	0	.297	.361	.479	.840	139.2	136.4	.384	4.0
1975	120	468	427	42	105	17	3	14	47	32	56	2	0	.246	.306	.398	.704	91.9	93.8	.323	2.1
1976	71	255	237	22	64	10	1	5	27	12	27	0	0	.270	.303	.384	.687	94.8	97.0	.319	1.3

Career totals

1,774

439th-most career G

6,899

483rd-most career PA

6,073

497th-most career AB

706

1,591

241

200

384th-most career HR

RBI

758

626

489th-most career BB

753

.2620

OBP

.3397

SLG

.4120

OPS

.7517

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
1971-08-09	DET @ BOS Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	3	0	12
1963-05-05	BAL @ DET Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	2	5	1	10
1969-04-10	CLE @ DET Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	2	5	0	10
1974-10-01	BAL @ DET Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
1963-05-07	NYY @ DET Gameday	3	3	3	1	1	1	2	0	9

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.

Honors

5× Gold Glove11× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.