Billy Gardner

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornJuly 19, 1927 · New London, CT, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1954

Final gameSeptember 11, 1963

Seasons10 (1954–1963)

New York Giants 1954–1955; Baltimore Orioles 1956–1959; Washington Senators 1960; Minnesota Twins 1961; New York Yankees 1961; Boston Red Sox 1962; New York Yankees 1962; Boston Red Sox 1963

Percentile snapshot

1960 season — qualified batters

145

53.1

649

85.2

592

90.1

48.1

152

61.7

69.1

55.6

32.1

RBI

34.6

35.8

27.2

39.5

.257

25.9

OBP

.313

13.6

SLG

.363

22.2

OPS

.676

13.6

wRC+

80.0

9.9

OPS+

80.1

9.9

wOBA

.312

17.3

sWAR

0.9

14.8

of 82 qualified 1960 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

67.7

2.5

OPS+

70.3

2.6

sWAR

-0.3

20.3

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
1954	62	115	108	10	23	5	0	1	7	6	19	0	1	.213	.261	.287	.548	36.9	43.8	.252	-0.4
1955	59	207	187	26	38	10	1	3	17	13	19	0	0	.203	.261	.316	.577	52.3	53.5	.263	-0.3
1956	144	560	515	53	119	16	2	11	50	29	53	5	5	.231	.281	.334	.615	65.0	68.0	.285	-0.2
1957	154	718	644	79	169	36	3	6	55	53	67	10	7	.262	.325	.356	.681	93.7	92.7	.317	2.1
1958	151	607	560	32	126	28	2	3	33	34	53	2	3	.225	.271	.298	.569	57.3	61.9	.261	-0.8
1959	140	451	401	34	87	13	2	6	27	38	61	2	1	.217	.284	.304	.589	59.2	65.0	.266	-0.5
1960	145	649	592	71	152	26	5	9	56	43	76	0	4	.257	.313	.363	.676	80.0	80.1	.312	0.9
1961	86	280	253	24	57	14	0	2	13	16	32	0	0	.225	.279	.304	.584	53.7	56.6	.269	-0.5
1962	57	213	200	23	54	9	2	0	12	10	40	0	1	.270	.308	.335	.643	69.6	70.9	.295	0.0
1963	36	89	84	4	16	2	1	0	1	4	19	0	0	.190	.236	.238	.474	21.0	31.3	.216	-0.5

Career totals

1,034

3,889

3,544

356

841

159

RBI

271

246

439

.2373

OBP

.2920

SLG

.3270

OPS

.6190

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
1956-05-16	BAL @ ATH Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	3	2	8
1957-08-13	BAL @ MIN Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	1	8
1958-05-18	BAL @ BOS Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	1	0	7
1957-05-29	BAL @ BOS Gameday	5	0	4	1	1	0	0	0	7
1954-05-28	LAD @ SF Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	4	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1954-04-30	SF @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954-05-01	SF @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954-05-03	SF @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954-05-09	SF @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954-07-03	SF @ 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.