MLB / Players

Bill Rigney

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 178 lb

BornJanuary 29, 1918 · Alameda, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1946

Final gameSeptember 12, 1953

Seasons8 (1946–1953)

New York Giants 1946–1953

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified batters

130

596

58.3

531

61.2

76.7

142

54.4

52.4

13.6

80.6

RBI

47.6

46.6

24.3

68.9

37.9

.267

30.1

OBP

.337

28.2

SLG

.420

59.2

OPS

.757

43.7

wRC+

97.0

OPS+

98.4

wOBA

.347

37.9

sWAR

2.0

43.7

of 104 qualified 1947 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.2

81.7

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
1946	110	402	360	38	85	9	1	3	31	36	29	9	0	.236	.307	.292	.599	66.6	69.1	.293	0.0
1947	130	596	531	84	142	24	3	17	59	51	54	7	0	.267	.337	.420	.757	97.0	98.4	.347	2.0
1948	113	478	424	72	112	17	3	10	43	47	54	4	0	.264	.342	.389	.731	96.7	96.4	.340	1.6
1949	122	441	389	53	108	19	6	6	47	47	38	3	0	.278	.356	.404	.759	104.6	103.6	.350	2.2
1950	56	92	83	8	15	2	0	0	8	8	13	0	0	.181	.253	.205	.458	19.0	22.3	.223	-0.6
1951	44	80	69	9	16	2	0	4	9	8	7	0	1	.232	.321	.435	.755	100.1	101.7	.341	0.3
1952	60	105	90	15	27	5	1	1	14	11	6	2	3	.300	.388	.411	.799	126.2	121.6	.372	0.7
1953	19	20	20	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	5	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	20.9	30.7	.225	-0.1

Career totals

654

2,214

1,966

281

510

RBI

212

208

206

.2594

OBP

.3339

SLG

.3759

OPS

.7098

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
1947-09-15	SF @ STL Gameday	5	3	5	2	1	0	1	0	9
1948-05-08	SF @ PIT Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	1	2	1	9
1947-07-11	STL @ SF Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
1947-04-18	LAD @ SF Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	6	0	8
1947-08-03	SF @ PIT Gameday	6	3	3	1	0	1	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1946-04-16	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-17	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-18	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-20	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-21	SF @ LAD 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.

Honors

1× 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.