Bill Mueller
San Francisco Giants 1996–2000; Chicago Cubs 2001–2002; San Francisco Giants 2002; Boston Red Sox 2003–2005; Los Angeles Dodgers 2006
Percentile snapshot
2005 season — qualified batters
of 149 qualified 2005 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 55 | 228 | 200 | 31 | 66 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 24 | 26 | 0 | 0 | .330 | .401 | .415 | .816 | 124.8 | 119.1 | .374 | 1.6 |
| 1997 | 128 | 453 | 390 | 51 | 114 | 26 | 3 | 7 | 44 | 48 | 71 | 4 | 3 | .292 | .369 | .428 | .797 | 113.3 | 110.6 | .360 | 2.5 |
| 1998 | 145 | 622 | 534 | 93 | 157 | 27 | 0 | 9 | 59 | 79 | 83 | 3 | 3 | .294 | .383 | .395 | .778 | 116.1 | 110.9 | .357 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 116 | 492 | 414 | 61 | 120 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 36 | 65 | 52 | 4 | 2 | .290 | .388 | .362 | .751 | 105.6 | 98.7 | .350 | 2.1 |
| 2000 | 153 | 631 | 560 | 97 | 150 | 29 | 4 | 10 | 55 | 52 | 62 | 4 | 2 | .268 | .333 | .388 | .721 | 90.8 | 89.0 | .324 | 1.5 |
| 2001 | 70 | 257 | 210 | 38 | 62 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 23 | 37 | 19 | 1 | 1 | .295 | .403 | .448 | .851 | 129.8 | 126.5 | .377 | 1.9 |
| 2002 | 111 | 427 | 366 | 51 | 96 | 19 | 4 | 7 | 38 | 52 | 42 | 0 | 0 | .262 | .350 | .393 | .743 | 101.9 | 99.1 | .338 | 1.7 |
| 2003 | 146 | 600 | 524 | 85 | 171 | 45 | 5 | 19 | 85 | 59 | 77 | 1 | 4 | .326 | .398 | .540 | .938 | 144.4 | 141.9 | .405 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 110 | 460 | 399 | 75 | 113 | 27 | 1 | 12 | 57 | 51 | 56 | 2 | 2 | .283 | .365 | .446 | .811 | 109.7 | 107.6 | .358 | 2.3 |
| 2005 | 150 | 590 | 519 | 69 | 153 | 34 | 3 | 10 | 62 | 59 | 74 | 0 | 0 | .295 | .369 | .430 | .799 | 112.7 | 110.3 | .353 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 32 | 126 | 107 | 12 | 27 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 1 | .252 | .357 | .402 | .759 | 94.1 | 95.1 | .334 | 0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-07-29 | BOS @ TEX Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 12 |
| 2006-04-11 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 2003-06-27 | MIA @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| 2002-09-02 | MIL @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1998-04-05 | SF @ AZ Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.