Billy Hoy

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 6 in · 160 lb

BornMay 23, 1862 · Houcktown, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1888

Final gameJuly 17, 1902

Seasons14 (1888–1902)

Washington Nationals 1888–1889; Buffalo Bisons 1890; St. Louis Browns 1891; Washington Senators 1892–1893; Cincinnati Reds 1894–1897; Louisville Colonels 1898–1899; Chicago White Sox 1901; Cincinnati Reds 1902

Percentile snapshot

1901 season — qualified batters

132

47.8

641

95.7

527

58.7

112

90.2

155

57.6

82.6

59.8

31.5

RBI

40.2

98.9

82.6

66.3

.294

52.2

OBP

.407

90.2

SLG

.400

59.8

OPS

.807

77.2

wRC+

128.0

78.3

OPS+

127.2

71.7

wOBA

.388

80.4

sWAR

4.6

83.7

of 93 qualified 1901 batters (min 424 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

111.4

64.6

OPS+

110.7

63.3

sWAR

42.7

98.2

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
1888	136	583	503	77	138	10	8	2	29	69	48	82	.274	.374	.338	.712	127.9	127.8	.341	4.3
1889	127	588	507	98	139	11	6	0	39	75	30	35	.274	.374	.320	.694	99.9	93.7	.345	2.1
1890	122	595	493	107	147	17	8	1	53	94	36	39	.298	.418	.371	.790	113.9	111.3	.390	3.1
1891	139	688	559	134	163	13	5	5	64	117	25	59	.292	.424	.360	.784	125.2	124.2	.397	4.7
1892	152	683	593	108	167	19	8	3	75	86	23	60	.282	.376	.356	.732	120.1	121.3	.363	4.2
1893	130	643	564	106	138	12	6	0	45	66	9	48	.245	.337	.287	.625	76.6	66.5	.315	0.3
1894	128	616	503	118	153	23	13	5	71	90	19	28	.304	.421	.431	.853	108.1	105.7	.405	2.7
1895	107	490	429	93	119	21	12	3	55	52	8	50	.277	.363	.403	.767	98.4	97.4	.365	1.3
1896	121	554	443	120	132	23	7	4	57	65	13	50	.298	.403	.409	.812	114.9	114.1	.392	2.9
1897	128	586	497	87	145	24	6	2	42	54	27	37	.292	.375	.376	.751	100.9	98.4	.364	2.1
1898	148	659	582	104	177	15	16	6	66	49	33	37	.304	.367	.416	.783	120.0	123.8	.378	4.0
1899	155	723	636	117	194	17	13	5	49	62	31	33	.305	.376	.396	.772	111.0	111.5	.373	3.7
1901	132	641	527	112	155	28	11	2	60	86	23	27	.294	.407	.400	.807	128.0	127.2	.388	4.6
1902	72	336	279	48	81	15	2	2	20	41	20	11	.290	.389	.380	.769	135.7	132.1	.383	2.7

Career totals

1,797

420th-most career G

8,385

219th-most career PA

7,115

288th-most career AB

1,429

85th-most career R

2,048

271st-most career H

248

121

99th-most career 3B

RBI

725

1,006

122nd-most career BB

345

596

19th-most career SB

.2878

464th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3862

142nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3736

OPS

.7598

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
1901-05-01	DET @ CWS Gameday	4	4	3	1	0	1	3	2	7
1901-06-10	CWS @ MIN Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	1	2	1	6
1901-07-23	ATH @ CWS Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	0	3	0	5
1901-07-20	ATH @ CWS Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	0	1	1	5
1901-09-15	BAL @ CWS Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	0	0	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-24	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-25	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-28	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	DET @ CWS 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.