Billy Goodman

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornMarch 22, 1926 · Concord, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1947

Final gameSeptember 30, 1962

Seasons16 (1947–1962)

Boston Red Sox 1947–1956; Baltimore Orioles 1957; Boston Red Sox 1957; Chicago White Sox 1958–1961; Houston Colt .45's 1962

Percentile snapshot

1955 season — qualified batters

149

69.1

715

98.8

599

86.4

100

82.7

176

81.5

91.4

11.1

RBI

25.9

95.1

70.4

23.5

.294

70.4

OBP

.394

86.4

SLG

.352

14.8

OPS

.747

34.6

wRC+

103.8

OPS+

95.9

32.1

wOBA

.362

59.3

sWAR

2.9

56.8

of 82 qualified 1955 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

102.6

46.5

OPS+

99.3

40.3

sWAR

20.8

93.9

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
1947	12	12	11	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	.182	.250	.182	.432	10.1	18.1	.220	-0.1
1948	127	527	445	65	138	27	2	1	66	74	44	5	3	.310	.414	.387	.801	116.3	110.2	.389	1.8
1949	122	509	443	54	132	23	3	0	56	58	21	2	0	.298	.382	.363	.745	94.3	92.2	.363	0.3
1950	110	485	424	91	150	25	3	4	68	52	25	2	4	.354	.427	.455	.882	120.5	117.1	.412	2.5
1951	141	638	546	92	162	34	4	0	50	79	37	7	4	.297	.388	.374	.761	101.8	98.0	.365	1.6
1952	138	579	513	79	157	27	3	4	56	48	23	8	2	.306	.370	.394	.764	108.0	106.4	.360	2.4
1953	128	581	514	73	161	33	5	2	41	57	11	1	4	.313	.384	.409	.793	112.2	109.4	.371	2.8
1954	127	552	489	71	148	25	4	1	36	51	15	3	3	.303	.370	.376	.746	99.9	97.2	.353	1.7
1955	149	715	599	100	176	31	2	0	52	99	44	5	5	.294	.394	.352	.747	103.8	95.9	.362	2.9
1956	105	448	399	61	117	22	8	2	38	40	22	0	3	.293	.356	.404	.760	92.4	91.9	.352	1.2
1957	91	316	279	37	82	11	3	3	33	23	19	0	2	.294	.351	.387	.738	109.4	108.3	.341	1.4
1958	116	471	425	41	127	15	5	0	40	37	21	1	0	.299	.355	.358	.712	103.1	100.7	.330	2.0
1959	104	291	268	21	67	14	1	1	28	19	20	3	0	.250	.304	.321	.625	75.7	74.7	.292	0.2
1960	30	89	77	5	18	4	0	0	6	12	8	0	0	.234	.337	.286	.623	75.9	72.4	.299	0.1
1961	41	59	51	4	13	4	0	1	10	7	6	0	0	.255	.339	.392	.731	99.1	97.8	.334	0.2
1962	82	174	161	12	41	4	1	0	10	12	11	0	0	.255	.306	.292	.598	65.4	66.6	.277	-0.1

Career totals

1,623

6,446

5,644

807

1,691

496th-most career H

299

497th-most career 2B

RBI

591

669

419th-most career BB

329

.2996

226th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3758

227th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3783

OPS

.7541

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	RBI	BB	TB
1958-06-29	MIN @ CWS Gameday	6	3	5	0	1	2	1	7
1956-05-09	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	1	4	3	0	1	0	7
1949-06-24	BAL @ BOS Gameday	7	4	5	1	0	3	0	6
1957-09-15	CLE @ BAL Gameday	8	2	5	1	0	1	0	6
1958-06-08	CWS @ BOS Gameday	6	2	5	1	0	0	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1947-04-15	MIN @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-17	MIN @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-18	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-19	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-20	BOS @ MIN 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.

Honors

2× 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.