Billy Beane
New York Mets 1984–1985; Minnesota Twins 1986–1987; Detroit Tigers 1988; Oakland Athletics 1989
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .100 | .100 | .100 | .200 | -60.5 | -42.9 | .093 | -0.2 |
| 1985 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .375 | .625 | 70.8 | 75.9 | .281 | 0.0 |
| 1986 | 80 | 194 | 183 | 20 | 39 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 54 | 2 | 3 | .213 | .258 | .295 | .553 | 46.3 | 49.0 | .253 | -1.0 |
| 1987 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .267 | .267 | .400 | .667 | 67.8 | 71.8 | .288 | 0.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | -14.8 | -4.5 | .153 | -0.1 |
| 1989 | 37 | 82 | 79 | 8 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 1 | .241 | .238 | .304 | .541 | 48.6 | 55.8 | .244 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986-04-29 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 1986-09-27 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1986-09-16 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1986-08-14 | MIN @ SEA Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1989-06-02 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
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.