Billy Loes
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
of 56 qualified 1957 pitchers (min 154 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .500 | 115.1 | 43.7 | .371 | -0.4 |
| 1952 | 40 | 66 | 54 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .093 | .125 | .093 | .218 | -57.0 | -38.8 | .109 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 32 | 59 | 56 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .140 | .179 | .319 | -33.7 | -18.0 | .143 | 1.1 |
| 1954 | 28 | 57 | 51 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .118 | .151 | .118 | .269 | -49.1 | -29.2 | .131 | 1.2 |
| 1955 | 22 | 50 | 44 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 0 | .091 | .149 | .091 | .240 | -42.9 | -34.6 | .124 | 1.7 |
| 1956 | 22 | 18 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .176 | .176 | .176 | .353 | -14.2 | -2.9 | .164 | -0.6 |
| 1957 | 31 | 60 | 50 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .080 | .132 | .100 | .232 | -43.8 | -33.3 | .120 | 1.8 |
| 1958 | 32 | 35 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .067 | .094 | .067 | .160 | -68.5 | -53.5 | .080 | 0.8 |
| 1959 | 37 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .250 | -42.9 | -29.7 | .115 | 0.3 |
| 1960 | 37 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 36.5 | 42.0 | .228 | -0.3 |
| 1961 | 26 | 38 | 32 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | .156 | .206 | .156 | .362 | -1.0 | 0.3 | .177 | 0.6 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 12.7 | 7.82 | 1.658 | 1.42 | 8.46 | 202.4 | 53.4 | -0.4 |
| 1952 | 39 | 21 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 154 | 56 | 71 | 115 | 12 | 187.3 | 2.69 | 1.201 | 5.52 | 3.21 | 86.1 | 138.5 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 32 | 25 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 165 | 82 | 53 | 75 | 21 | 162.7 | 4.54 | 1.340 | 4.15 | 4.40 | 101.7 | 95.5 | 1.1 |
| 1954 | 28 | 21 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 154 | 68 | 60 | 97 | 14 | 147.7 | 4.14 | 1.449 | 5.91 | 3.58 | 86.0 | 100.3 | 1.2 |
| 1955 | 22 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 116 | 51 | 46 | 85 | 16 | 128.0 | 3.59 | 1.266 | 5.98 | 3.73 | 90.8 | 114.5 | 1.7 |
| 1956 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 70 | 36 | 24 | 24 | 5 | 58.0 | 5.59 | 1.621 | 3.72 | 4.14 | 106.4 | 69.5 | -0.6 |
| 1957 | 31 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 142 | 56 | 37 | 86 | 8 | 155.3 | 3.24 | 1.152 | 4.98 | 2.75 | 77.5 | 109.5 | 1.8 |
| 1958 | 32 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 106 | 46 | 44 | 44 | 10 | 114.0 | 3.63 | 1.316 | 3.47 | 4.18 | 117.7 | 97.8 | 0.8 |
| 1959 | 37 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 29 | 25 | 34 | 5 | 64.3 | 4.06 | 1.290 | 4.76 | 3.72 | 99.7 | 92.0 | 0.3 |
| 1960 | 37 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 25 | 17 | 28 | 9 | 45.7 | 4.93 | 1.248 | 5.52 | 5.37 | 151.3 | 72.0 | -0.3 |
| 1961 | 26 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 114 | 54 | 39 | 55 | 13 | 114.7 | 4.24 | 1.334 | 4.32 | 4.33 | 111.8 | 91.4 | 0.6 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-09-27 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1953-05-20 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1954-07-10 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1952-07-18 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1953-10-03 | NYY @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-07-05 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 0 |
| 1955-06-11 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 1 |
| 1957-06-30 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
| 1952-09-23 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 10.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 1953-05-03 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
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.