Billy Hitchcock
Detroit Tigers 1942; Detroit Tigers 1946; Washington Senators 1946; St. Louis Browns 1947; Boston Red Sox 1948–1949; Philadelphia Athletics 1950–1952; Detroit Tigers 1953
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 85 | 310 | 280 | 27 | 59 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 26 | 21 | 2 | 2 | .211 | .280 | .246 | .527 | 41.1 | 44.5 | .261 | -0.8 |
| 1946 | 101 | 389 | 357 | 27 | 75 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 25 | 27 | 52 | 2 | 4 | .210 | .268 | .249 | .517 | 42.8 | 48.3 | .251 | -1.0 |
| 1947 | 80 | 302 | 275 | 25 | 61 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 21 | 34 | 3 | 0 | .222 | .277 | .255 | .532 | 38.9 | 45.6 | .259 | -1.1 |
| 1948 | 49 | 134 | 124 | 15 | 37 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .298 | .341 | .379 | .720 | 84.9 | 88.3 | .340 | 0.2 |
| 1949 | 55 | 170 | 147 | 22 | 30 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 3 | .204 | .291 | .259 | .549 | 37.9 | 41.9 | .275 | -1.0 |
| 1950 | 115 | 447 | 399 | 35 | 109 | 22 | 5 | 1 | 54 | 45 | 32 | 3 | 1 | .273 | .347 | .361 | .708 | 82.2 | 82.3 | .335 | 0.6 |
| 1951 | 77 | 249 | 222 | 27 | 68 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 36 | 21 | 23 | 2 | 0 | .306 | .371 | .401 | .772 | 107.3 | 106.5 | .363 | 1.1 |
| 1952 | 119 | 460 | 407 | 45 | 100 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 56 | 39 | 45 | 1 | 1 | .246 | .318 | .292 | .610 | 63.2 | 65.3 | .296 | -0.5 |
| 1953 | 22 | 41 | 38 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .211 | .268 | .211 | .479 | 25.1 | 30.0 | .236 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-09-07 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 1952-07-20 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 1951-08-09 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1951-09-05 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1946-06-09 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-04-14 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-04-15 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-04-16 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-04-17 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-04-18 | DET @ BAL 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.