Billy Cowan
Chicago Cubs 1963–1964; Milwaukee Braves 1965; New York Mets 1965; Philadelphia Phillies 1967; California Angels 1969; New York Yankees 1969; California Angels 1970–1972
Percentile snapshot
1964 season — qualified batters
of 95 qualified 1964 batters (min 502 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 14 | 36 | 36 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .250 | .417 | .667 | 79.7 | 84.1 | .295 | 0.0 |
| 1964 | 139 | 520 | 497 | 52 | 120 | 16 | 4 | 19 | 50 | 18 | 128 | 12 | 3 | .241 | .268 | .404 | .673 | 78.5 | 83.5 | .296 | 0.6 |
| 1965 | 101 | 189 | 183 | 20 | 33 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 54 | 3 | 2 | .180 | .202 | .301 | .503 | 32.2 | 40.7 | .224 | -0.9 |
| 1967 | 34 | 66 | 59 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 0 | .153 | .203 | .305 | .508 | 37.8 | 43.4 | .234 | -0.4 |
| 1969 | 60 | 111 | 104 | 15 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .240 | .288 | .394 | .683 | 89.9 | 93.6 | .310 | 0.1 |
| 1970 | 68 | 146 | 134 | 20 | 37 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 25 | 11 | 29 | 0 | 1 | .276 | .336 | .470 | .806 | 122.7 | 124.5 | .360 | 0.6 |
| 1971 | 74 | 182 | 174 | 12 | 48 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 20 | 7 | 41 | 1 | 1 | .276 | .304 | .391 | .695 | 100.8 | 103.6 | .318 | 0.4 |
| 1972 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -136.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970-06-12 | LAA @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1971-08-04 | CWS @ LAA Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1964-06-28 | HOU @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1965-06-29 | ATL @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1971-07-07 | LAA @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
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.