Billy Hunter
St. Louis Browns 1953; Baltimore Orioles 1954; New York Yankees 1955–1956; Kansas City Athletics 1957; Cleveland Indians 1958; Kansas City Athletics 1958
Percentile snapshot
1953 season — qualified batters
of 85 qualified 1953 batters (min 477 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 154 | 604 | 567 | 50 | 124 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 37 | 24 | 45 | 3 | 1 | .219 | .253 | .259 | .512 | 29.0 | 37.9 | .242 | -2.5 |
| 1954 | 125 | 451 | 411 | 28 | 100 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 27 | 21 | 38 | 5 | 4 | .243 | .281 | .304 | .585 | 54.9 | 62.1 | .274 | -0.3 |
| 1955 | 98 | 279 | 255 | 14 | 58 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 18 | 9 | 2 | .227 | .269 | .298 | .567 | 49.4 | 55.6 | .265 | -0.3 |
| 1956 | 39 | 79 | 75 | 8 | 21 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | .280 | .299 | .427 | .725 | 90.7 | 95.0 | .328 | 0.3 |
| 1957 | 116 | 359 | 319 | 39 | 61 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 29 | 27 | 43 | 1 | 2 | .191 | .259 | .323 | .581 | 49.9 | 56.1 | .268 | -0.6 |
| 1958 | 98 | 280 | 248 | 27 | 46 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 22 | 44 | 5 | 2 | .185 | .254 | .278 | .532 | 43.6 | 47.4 | .248 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-08-17 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 1953-09-04 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1955-06-05 | NYY @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1958-06-13 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1954-07-31 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-04-28 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-06-05 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-06-07 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-06-12 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-06-14 | ATH @ 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.