Billy Bates
Milwaukee Brewers 1989; Cincinnati Reds 1990; Milwaukee Brewers 1990
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 7 | 14 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .214 | .214 | .214 | .429 | 13.4 | 22.3 | .198 | -0.1 |
| 1990 | 22 | 40 | 34 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 1 | .088 | .179 | .118 | .297 | -17.9 | -14.0 | .158 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990-04-13 | MIL @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1990-04-18 | MIL @ TEX Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1989-08-20 | BOS @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1989-08-22 | MIL @ BAL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1989-09-29 | MIL @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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.