MLB / Players

Billy Cox

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 150 lb

BornAugust 29, 1919 · Newport, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 20, 1941

Final gameJune 11, 1955

Seasons11 (1941–1955)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1941; Pittsburgh Pirates 1946–1947; Brooklyn Dodgers 1948–1954; Baltimore Orioles 1955

Percentile snapshot

1952 season — qualified batters

116

1.3

490

455

14.7

118

14.7

1.3

21.3

RBI

2.7

1.3

81.3

1.3

.259

26.7

OBP

.301

1.3

SLG

.338

6.7

OPS

.639

wRC+

73.0

OPS+

77.1

5.3

wOBA

.296

2.7

sWAR

0.3

5.3

of 76 qualified 1952 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

83.4

14.2

OPS+

85.9

16.9

sWAR

7.9

84.2

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
1941	10	40	37	4	10	3	1	0	2	3	2	1	0	.270	.325	.405	.730	102.5	104.9	.340	0.2
1946	121	448	411	32	119	22	6	2	36	26	15	4	0	.290	.333	.387	.720	98.1	100.7	.340	2.0
1947	132	561	529	75	145	30	7	15	54	29	28	5	0	.274	.313	.442	.755	90.4	95.2	.340	1.8
1948	88	279	237	36	59	13	2	3	15	38	19	3	0	.249	.353	.359	.711	94.4	91.2	.338	0.9
1949	100	426	390	48	91	18	2	8	40	30	18	5	0	.233	.290	.351	.641	65.0	69.2	.295	-0.3
1950	119	494	451	62	116	17	2	8	44	35	24	6	0	.257	.311	.357	.668	71.4	74.3	.305	0.1
1951	142	507	455	62	127	25	4	9	51	37	30	5	5	.279	.336	.411	.747	97.8	99.1	.339	1.7
1952	116	490	455	56	118	12	3	6	34	25	32	10	12	.259	.301	.338	.639	73.0	77.1	.296	0.3
1953	100	371	327	44	95	18	1	10	44	37	21	2	2	.291	.363	.443	.806	108.5	107.6	.360	1.8
1954	77	252	226	26	53	9	2	2	17	21	13	0	0	.235	.297	.319	.616	55.7	59.7	.284	-0.4
1955	53	213	194	25	41	7	2	3	14	17	16	1	2	.211	.275	.314	.589	61.8	63.3	.280	-0.2

Career totals

1,058

4,081

3,712

470

974

174

RBI

351

298

218

.2624

OBP

.3182

SLG

.3798

OPS

.6980

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	TB
1949-06-12	CIN @ LAD Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	6	10
1946-06-23	PIT @ ATL Gameday	5	1	5	2	1	0	0	9
1947-06-15	ATL @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	3	9
1947-08-16	STL @ PIT Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	3	9
1952-04-18	SF @ LAD Gameday	6	1	4	2	1	0	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1941-04-15	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-17	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-18	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-19	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-20	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.