Bill Lillard
Philadelphia Athletics 1939–1940
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 7 | 23 | 19 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .316 | .409 | .368 | .778 | 105.5 | 99.6 | .372 | 0.1 |
| 1940 | 73 | 241 | 206 | 26 | 49 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 28 | 28 | 0 | 1 | .238 | .332 | .311 | .643 | 70.7 | 67.6 | .306 | 0.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-07-07 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1940-06-06 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1940-05-05 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1939-09-12 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1940-04-29 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-04-20 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-21 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-22 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-23 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-24 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.