Billy Hoeft

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 180 lb

BornMay 17, 1932 · Oshkosh, WI, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1952

Final gameSeptember 25, 1966

Seasons15 (1952–1966)

Detroit Tigers 1952–1958; Baltimore Orioles 1959; Boston Red Sox 1959; Detroit Tigers 1959; Baltimore Orioles 1960–1962; San Francisco Giants 1963; Milwaukee Braves 1964; Chicago Cubs 1965–1966; San Francisco Giants 1966

Percentile snapshot

1957 season — qualified pitchers

34.5

12.7

41.8

56.4

54.5

SHO

7.3

188

70.9

47.3

111

54.5

74.5

207.0

47.3

ERA

3.48

58.2

WHIP

1.242

65.5

K/9

4.83

52.7

FIP

3.34

74.5

FIP-

87.2

78.2

ERA+

110.1

54.5

sWAR

3.1

58.2

of 56 qualified 1957 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

98.0

30.2

sWAR

18.9

93.1

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1952	34	43	40	3	6	1	0	0	1	2	15	.150	.190	.175	.365	-14.7	0.8	.179	0.3
1953	30	76	64	8	11	1	0	0	4	9	17	.172	.274	.188	.461	26.3	25.8	.238	0.2
1954	35	63	52	5	10	6	0	0	6	10	24	.192	.317	.308	.625	75.0	72.8	.305	0.4
1955	36	96	82	9	17	2	0	0	4	10	25	.207	.293	.232	.525	48.0	44.9	.264	4.8
1956	42	97	80	16	20	3	1	0	9	12	22	.250	.348	.313	.660	82.8	77.0	.321	3.2
1957	42	78	67	13	10	2	0	3	10	5	14	.149	.205	.313	.519	30.1	39.5	.236	3.1
1958	43	50	44	10	12	0	2	0	5	4	11	.273	.327	.364	.690	84.1	84.8	.316	1.5
1959	26	20	18	1	4	1	0	0	0	0	7	.222	.222	.278	.500	28.8	38.0	.225	-0.7
1960	19	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.9	-100.0	.000	0.0
1961	35	46	39	1	7	0	0	0	4	4	13	.179	.250	.179	.429	20.7	20.3	.213	4.3
1962	57	27	19	5	3	2	0	0	1	7	7	.158	.385	.263	.648	105.3	84.9	.334	0.2
1963	23	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	475.1	484.5	.828	0.0
1964	42	15	9	1	2	0	0	0	2	3	3	.222	.417	.222	.639	110.7	86.1	.337	0.6
1965	29	11	11	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	.273	.273	.273	.545	46.1	52.0	.250	1.1
1966	40	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	31.1	38.6	.228	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1952	34	10	2	7	4	1	0	123	60	63	67	14	125.0	4.32	1.488	4.82	4.38	116.1	87.3	0.3
1953	29	27	9	14	2	9	0	223	106	58	90	24	197.7	4.83	1.422	4.10	4.18	103.4	83.7	0.2
1954	34	25	7	15	1	10	4	180	89	59	114	22	175.0	4.58	1.366	5.86	3.79	102.2	81.0	0.4
1955	32	29	16	7	0	17	7	187	73	75	133	17	220.0	2.99	1.191	5.44	3.29	84.8	129.8	4.8
1956	38	34	20	14	0	18	4	276	112	104	172	22	248.0	4.06	1.532	6.24	3.59	87.1	101.4	3.2
1957	34	28	9	11	1	10	1	188	80	69	111	15	207.0	3.48	1.242	4.83	3.34	87.2	110.1	3.1
1958	36	21	10	9	3	6	0	148	66	49	94	15	143.0	4.15	1.378	5.92	3.54	88.6	96.3	1.5
1959	23	8	2	5	0	0	0	78	42	31	40	7	67.7	5.59	1.611	5.32	4.09	106.4	69.1	-0.7
1960	19	0	2	1	0	0	0	18	9	14	14	2	18.7	4.34	1.714	6.75	4.55	120.4	87.0	0.0
1961	35	12	7	4	3	3	1	106	31	55	100	7	138.0	2.02	1.167	6.52	2.93	76.4	189.8	4.3
1962	57	4	4	8	7	0	0	103	58	43	73	7	113.7	4.59	1.284	5.78	3.19	85.9	80.9	0.2
1963	23	0	2	0	4	0	0	26	12	10	8	5	24.3	4.44	1.479	2.96	5.74	177.5	72.9	0.0
1964	42	0	4	0	4	0	0	76	31	18	47	9	73.3	3.80	1.282	5.77	3.84	108.0	93.5	0.6
1965	29	2	2	2	1	1	0	41	16	20	44	3	51.3	2.81	1.188	7.71	2.85	77.7	130.7	1.1
1966	40	0	1	4	3	0	0	47	24	17	33	4	44.7	4.84	1.433	6.65	3.57	96.9	76.1	-0.2

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

533

630

531

107

RBI

162

.2015

OBP

.2890

SLG

.2637

OPS

.5527

Pitching

G (P)

505

433rd-most career G (P)

200

101

SHO

317th-most career SHO

1,847

SO (P)

1,140

445th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

685

416th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.941

WHIP

1.3560

K/9

5.55

489th-highest career K/9

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
1957-07-14	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
1955-06-29	DET @ CWS Gameday	5	0	3	1	0	0	2	0	4
1956-05-05	DET @ BOS Gameday	3	4	3	1	0	0	2	3	4
1956-08-24	DET @ BAL Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	0	1	1	4
1958-06-06	DET @ MIN Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1956-07-29	MIN @ DET Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	4	12	0
1954-05-31	DET @ BAL Gameday	8.0	9	4	4	1	11	1
1957-08-07	CLE @ DET Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	1	10	0
1956-06-25	MIN @ DET Gameday	7.2	10	5	4	7	10	1
1961-08-29	BAL @ LAA Gameday	10.1	11	6	4	6	9	2

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

1× 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.