Bill Taylor
New York Giants 1954–1956; Detroit Tigers 1957; New York Giants 1957; Detroit Tigers 1958
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 55 | 72 | 65 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .185 | .239 | .292 | .532 | 29.8 | 38.8 | .242 | -0.4 |
| 1955 | 65 | 66 | 64 | 9 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .266 | .273 | .516 | .788 | 100.7 | 104.8 | .336 | 0.2 |
| 1956 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .500 | .750 | 93.6 | 96.1 | .321 | 0.0 |
| 1957 | 20 | 33 | 32 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .273 | .406 | .679 | 77.7 | 79.7 | .305 | 0.0 |
| 1958 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .375 | .375 | .375 | .750 | 103.1 | 101.8 | .344 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-05-20 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1954-08-05 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1955-06-20 | SF @ CIN Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1957-09-27 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1954-06-10 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-04-30 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-05-01 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-05-03 | SF @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-05-09 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-07-03 | SF @ PIT 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.