Bill Laxton
Philadelphia Phillies 1970; San Diego Padres 1971; San Diego Padres 1974; Detroit Tigers 1976; Cleveland Indians 1977; Seattle Mariners 1977
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 1971 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -1.0 |
| 1974 | 30 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .333 | .200 | .533 | 68.8 | 54.3 | .285 | 0.2 |
| 1976 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.4 |
| 1977 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2.0 | 13.50 | 2.000 | 9.00 | 18.35 | 453.5 | 30.0 | -0.2 |
| 1971 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 21 | 26 | 23 | 4 | 27.7 | 6.83 | 2.096 | 7.48 | 5.69 | 172.2 | 48.3 | -1.0 |
| 1974 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 20 | 38 | 40 | 5 | 44.7 | 4.03 | 1.679 | 8.06 | 5.00 | 141.3 | 87.9 | 0.2 |
| 1976 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 43 | 51 | 74 | 13 | 94.7 | 4.09 | 1.352 | 7.04 | 4.65 | 126.6 | 89.7 | 0.4 |
| 1977 | 45 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 64 | 41 | 41 | 50 | 10 | 74.3 | 4.96 | 1.413 | 6.05 | 4.96 | 121.2 | 82.5 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974-08-21 | SD @ WSH Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1970-09-15 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1970-09-29 | WSH @ PHI Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1971-04-07 | SF @ SD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1971-04-12 | SD @ SF Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-05-21 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 7.1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 0 |
| 1976-05-26 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 7.2 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 2 |
| 1976-08-09 | TEX @ DET Gameday | 5.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1977-07-10 | SEA @ MIN Gameday | 4.1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| 1976-05-12 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 7.1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
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.