MLB / Players

Bill Tuttle

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornJuly 4, 1929 · Elmwood, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1952

Final gameMay 11, 1963

Seasons11 (1952–1963)

Detroit Tigers 1952; Detroit Tigers 1954–1957; Kansas City Athletics 1958–1961; Minnesota Twins 1961–1963

Percentile snapshot

1961 season — qualified batters

138

520

11.9

454

9.5

2.4

113

3.6

7.1

48.8

13.1

RBI

14.3

42.9

76.2

8.3

46.4

.249

8.3

OBP

.323

22.6

SLG

.335

7.1

OPS

.658

7.1

wRC+

72.4

OPS+

73.7

wOBA

.303

8.3

sWAR

0.2

of 85 qualified 1961 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

88.9

OPS+

88.4

20.5

sWAR

11.3

88.2

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
1952	7	25	25	2	6	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	.240	.240	.240	.480	16.8	32.1	.224	-0.2
1954	147	602	530	64	141	20	11	7	58	62	60	5	8	.266	.343	.385	.728	101.0	100.3	.342	2.3
1955	154	698	603	102	168	23	4	14	78	76	54	6	3	.279	.358	.400	.757	108.4	106.5	.355	3.3
1956	140	592	546	61	138	22	4	9	65	38	48	5	4	.253	.301	.357	.658	71.7	74.5	.304	0.1
1957	133	503	451	49	113	12	4	5	47	44	41	2	6	.251	.316	.328	.644	74.3	75.9	.300	0.3
1958	148	594	511	77	118	14	9	11	51	74	58	7	9	.231	.327	.358	.685	89.3	86.4	.319	1.2
1959	126	521	463	74	139	19	6	7	43	48	38	10	6	.300	.369	.413	.782	114.9	111.9	.358	2.9
1960	151	635	559	75	143	21	3	8	40	66	52	1	5	.256	.336	.347	.683	85.8	83.4	.320	1.3
1961	138	520	454	53	113	14	5	5	46	52	50	1	3	.249	.323	.335	.658	72.4	73.7	.303	0.2
1962	110	148	123	21	26	4	1	1	13	19	14	1	0	.211	.317	.285	.602	63.6	61.7	.286	-0.1
1963	16	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	-130.6	-22.8	.000	0.0

Career totals

1,270

4,842

4,268

578

1,105

149

RBI

443

480

416

.2589

OBP

.3336

SLG

.3629

OPS

.6965

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
1955-06-24	DET @ MIN Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	1	4	0	8
1955-08-26	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	2	0	1	2	1	8
1960-08-06	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	2	0	8
1959-05-28	ATH @ CLE Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	3	0	7
1956-09-26	CWS @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1952-05-16	NYY @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-06-19	NYY @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-06-20	ATH @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-06-22	ATH @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-06-22	ATH @ DET 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.