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Billy Gilbert

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 4 in · 153 lb

BornJune 21, 1876 · Tullytown, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 25, 1901

Final gameJune 27, 1909

Seasons8 (1901–1909)

Milwaukee Brewers 1901; Baltimore Orioles 1902; New York Giants 1903–1906; St. Louis Cardinals 1908–1909

Percentile snapshot

1904 season — qualified batters

146

55.7

557

26.1

478

121

18.2

15.9

22.7

RBI

52.3

71.6

86.4

.253

27.3

OBP

.340

70.5

SLG

.299

13.6

OPS

.639

35.2

wRC+

102.1

OPS+

97.2

26.1

wOBA

.320

43.2

sWAR

2.4

44.3

of 89 qualified 1904 batters (min 486 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

86.0

17.2

OPS+

81.1

10.8

sWAR

7.4

83.4

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1901	127	543	492	77	133	14	7	0	43	31	40	19	.270	.320	.327	.647	83.2	80.0	.309	0.8
1902	129	519	445	74	109	12	3	2	38	45	32	38	.245	.327	.299	.626	75.0	70.1	.306	0.7
1903	128	500	413	62	104	9	0	1	40	41	28	37	.252	.348	.281	.629	86.6	78.9	.319	1.0
1904	146	557	478	57	121	13	3	1	54	46	32	33	.253	.340	.299	.639	102.1	97.2	.320	2.4
1905	115	437	376	45	93	11	3	0	24	41	44	11	.247	.331	.293	.624	90.9	86.4	.312	1.2
1906	104	372	307	44	71	6	1	0	27	42	32	22	.231	.341	.257	.598	95.1	86.6	.312	1.3
1908	89	307	276	12	59	7	0	0	10	20	20	6	.214	.274	.239	.513	64.5	64.9	.259	0.0
1909	12	36	29	4	5	0	0	0	1	4	1	1	.172	.333	.172	.506	78.1	59.1	.285	0.1

Career totals

850

3,271

2,816

375

695

RBI

237

270

229

167

487th-most career SB

.2468

OBP

.3284

SLG

.2887

OPS

.6171

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
1901-05-05	CWS @ BAL Gameday	7	3	5	1	1	0	5	8
1904-06-06	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	4	7
1901-06-19	BAL @ BAL Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	0	0	6
1903-05-06	SF @ LAD Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	0	0	5
1903-05-25	STL @ SF Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	0	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-25	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-28	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	BAL @ CLE 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.