MLB / Players

Billy Butler

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 260 lb

BornApril 18, 1986 · Orange Park, FL, USA

MLB debutMay 1, 2007

Final gameOctober 2, 2016

Seasons10 (2007–2016)

Kansas City Royals 2007–2014; Oakland Athletics 2015; New York Yankees 2016; Oakland Athletics 2016

Percentile snapshot

2015 season — qualified batters

151

50.4

601

43.3

538

42.6

24.1

135

27.7

42.6

12.8

38.3

RBI

41.1

63.1

101

83.7

.251

21.3

OBP

.323

39.7

SLG

.390

24.1

OPS

.713

25.5

wRC+

99.0

33.3

OPS+

98.8

wOBA

.313

sWAR

0.3

4.3

of 142 qualified 2015 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

115.4

72.4

OPS+

115.3

72.2

sWAR

15.6

91.3

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
2007	92	360	329	38	96	23	2	8	52	27	55	0	0	.292	.347	.447	.794	104.7	106.7	.348	0.5
2008	124	478	443	44	122	22	0	11	55	33	57	0	1	.275	.324	.400	.724	91.6	90.9	.324	-0.1
2009	159	672	608	78	183	51	1	21	93	58	103	1	0	.301	.362	.492	.853	122.6	121.8	.371	2.9
2010	158	678	595	77	189	45	0	15	78	69	78	0	0	.318	.388	.469	.857	133.5	132.1	.378	3.6
2011	159	673	597	74	174	44	0	19	95	66	95	2	1	.291	.361	.461	.822	121.6	124.4	.354	2.2
2012	161	679	614	72	192	32	1	29	107	54	111	2	1	.313	.373	.510	.882	139.5	139.0	.378	3.8
2013	162	668	582	62	168	27	0	15	82	79	102	0	0	.289	.374	.412	.787	118.3	116.7	.349	1.9
2014	151	603	549	57	149	32	0	9	66	41	96	0	0	.271	.323	.379	.702	97.2	97.8	.314	0.2
2015	151	601	538	63	135	28	1	15	65	52	101	0	0	.251	.323	.390	.713	99.0	98.8	.313	0.3
2016	97	274	250	27	71	18	0	5	35	21	42	0	0	.284	.336	.416	.752	104.0	104.1	.325	0.2

Career totals

1,414

5,686

5,105

592

1,479

322

404th-most career 2B

147

RBI

728

500

840

.2897

415th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3540

SLG

.4411

OPS

.7951

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
2009-04-29	TOR @ KC Gameday	5	4	4	1	2	4	0	11
2009-09-25	MIN @ KC Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	4	0	10
2010-06-13	KC @ CIN Gameday	5	1	4	2	1	4	0	9
2008-08-30	KC @ DET Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	4	0	9
2009-09-07	LAA @ KC Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	1	9

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.

Honors

1× Silver Slugger1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.