MLB / Players

Billy Loes

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 165 lb
BornDecember 13, 1929 · Long Island City, NY, USA
MLB debutMay 18, 1950
Final gameSeptember 14, 1961
Seasons11 (1950–1961)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1950; Brooklyn Dodgers 1952–1955; Baltimore Orioles 1956; Brooklyn Dodgers 1956; Baltimore Orioles 1957–1959; San Francisco Giants 1960–1961

Percentile snapshot

1957 season — qualified pitchers

G
31
18.2
GS
18
3.6
W
12
43.6
L
7
87.3
SV
4
90.9
CG
8
30.9
SHO
3
74.5
H
142
94.5
ER
56
92.7
BB
37
96.4
SO
86
18.2
HR
8
100
IP
155.3
1.8
ERA
3.24
72.7
WHIP
1.152
89.1
K/9
4.98
63.6
FIP
2.75
98.2
FIP-
77.5
87.3
ERA+
109.5
50.9
sWAR
1.8
29.1

of 56 qualified 1957 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+
99.9
38.3
sWAR
10.1
87

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
195010211000001100.000.500.000.500115.143.7.371-0.4
195240665435000121300.093.125.093.218-57.0-38.8.1093.9
195332595627110411300.125.140.179.319-33.7-18.0.1431.1
195428575116000522000.118.151.118.269-49.1-29.2.1311.2
195522504424000031510.091.149.091.240-42.9-34.6.1241.7
19562218170300000700.176.176.176.353-14.2-2.9.164-0.6
195731605034100031300.080.132.100.232-43.8-33.3.1201.8
195832353012000111000.067.094.067.160-68.5-53.5.0800.8
195937880100000100.125.125.125.250-42.9-29.7.1150.3
196037541100000000.250.250.250.50036.542.0.228-0.3
19612638320500002301.156.206.156.362-1.00.3.1770.6

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
195010000000161152512.77.821.6581.428.46202.453.4-0.4
19523921138184154567111512187.32.691.2015.523.2186.1138.53.9
1953322514809116582537521162.74.541.3404.154.40101.795.51.1
1954282113506015468609714147.74.141.4495.913.5886.0100.31.2
1955221910406011651468516128.03.591.2665.983.7390.8114.51.7
19562272831070362424558.05.591.6213.724.14106.469.5-0.6
195731181274831425637868155.33.241.1524.982.7577.5109.51.8
195832103951010646444410114.03.631.3163.474.18117.797.80.8
195937047140058292534564.34.061.2904.763.7299.792.00.3
19603703250040251728945.74.931.2485.525.37151.372.0-0.3
196126186503111454395513114.74.241.3344.324.33111.891.40.6

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

G
317
PA
398
AB
347
R
14
H
38
2B
2
3B
1
HR
0
RBI
11
BB
15
SO
96
SB
1
BA
.1095
OBP
.1460
SLG
.1210
OPS
.2670

Pitching

G (P)
316
GS
139
W
80
L
63
SV
32
CG
42
SHO
9
IP
1,190
SO (P)
645
BB allowed
421
ERA
3.886
WHIP
1.3072
K/9
4.88

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1953-09-27LAD @ PHI Gameday202110205
1953-05-20LAD @ ATL Gameday402000102
1954-07-10PHI @ LAD Gameday402000102
1952-07-18LAD @ PIT Gameday322000002
1953-10-03NYY @ LAD Gameday302000002

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1954-07-05LAD @ PIT Gameday9.08221110
1955-06-11CHC @ LAD Gameday9.05335111
1957-06-30CLE @ BAL Gameday9.0432191
1952-09-23PHI @ LAD Gameday10.0600280
1953-05-03ATL @ LAD Gameday9.0331281

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

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.