Billy Buckner
Kansas City Royals 2007; Arizona Diamondbacks 2008–2010; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2013; San Diego Padres 2014
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 2008 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -135.6 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.3 |
| 2009 | 16 | 23 | 21 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .238 | .238 | .333 | .571 | 35.5 | 45.9 | .252 | -0.9 |
| 2010 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .400 | .250 | .650 | 92.7 | 76.8 | .329 | -0.9 |
| 2013 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -131.4 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 20 | 16 | 17 | 5 | 34.0 | 5.29 | 1.559 | 4.50 | 5.63 | 123.2 | 86.4 | 0.1 |
| 2008 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 14.0 | 3.21 | 1.429 | 7.07 | 5.39 | 118.8 | 141.2 | 0.3 |
| 2009 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 55 | 29 | 64 | 12 | 77.3 | 6.40 | 1.591 | 7.45 | 4.66 | 106.1 | 68.6 | -0.9 |
| 2010 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 16 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 13.0 | 11.08 | 2.385 | 7.62 | 7.03 | 166.4 | 38.1 | -0.9 |
| 2013 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 17.3 | 4.67 | 1.385 | 3.63 | 7.40 | 193.1 | 82.0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5.7 | 4.76 | 1.765 | 6.35 | 6.10 | 175.4 | 73.0 | 0.0 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-09-08 | LAD @ AZ Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2009-06-14 | HOU @ AZ Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2009-09-14 | AZ @ SD Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009-09-27 | SD @ AZ Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010-05-18 | AZ @ MIA Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-09-14 | AZ @ SD Gameday | 6.0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 2009-09-27 | SD @ AZ Gameday | 7.0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| 2009-06-20 | AZ @ SEA Gameday | 6.0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| 2009-10-02 | AZ @ CHC Gameday | 6.1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| 2009-06-01 | AZ @ LAD Gameday | 6.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 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.