Billy Martin
New York Yankees 1950–1953; New York Yankees 1955–1956; Kansas City Athletics 1957; New York Yankees 1957; Detroit Tigers 1958; Cleveland Indians 1959; Cincinnati Reds 1960; Minnesota Twins 1961; Milwaukee Braves 1961
Percentile snapshot
1958 season — qualified batters
of 72 qualified 1958 batters (min 477 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 34 | 39 | 36 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .308 | .361 | .669 | 70.9 | 74.5 | .312 | 0.0 |
| 1951 | 51 | 65 | 58 | 10 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 1 | .259 | .328 | .345 | .673 | 86.2 | 86.8 | .320 | 0.2 |
| 1952 | 109 | 401 | 363 | 32 | 97 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 33 | 22 | 31 | 3 | 6 | .267 | .323 | .344 | .668 | 90.6 | 92.9 | .316 | 1.0 |
| 1953 | 149 | 645 | 587 | 72 | 151 | 24 | 6 | 15 | 75 | 43 | 56 | 6 | 7 | .257 | .314 | .395 | .710 | 92.4 | 95.7 | .327 | 1.9 |
| 1955 | 20 | 80 | 70 | 8 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 2 | .300 | .354 | .371 | .726 | 96.4 | 99.5 | .335 | 0.3 |
| 1956 | 121 | 504 | 458 | 76 | 121 | 24 | 5 | 9 | 49 | 30 | 56 | 7 | 3 | .264 | .310 | .397 | .708 | 88.3 | 91.1 | .324 | 1.1 |
| 1957 | 116 | 437 | 410 | 45 | 103 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 39 | 15 | 34 | 9 | 2 | .251 | .282 | .383 | .665 | 75.4 | 79.6 | .301 | 0.4 |
| 1958 | 131 | 536 | 498 | 56 | 127 | 19 | 1 | 7 | 42 | 16 | 62 | 5 | 3 | .255 | .279 | .339 | .619 | 59.0 | 64.9 | .280 | -0.3 |
| 1959 | 73 | 259 | 242 | 37 | 63 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 24 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 2 | .260 | .290 | .401 | .691 | 86.2 | 91.4 | .306 | 0.5 |
| 1960 | 103 | 347 | 317 | 34 | 78 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 27 | 34 | 0 | 1 | .246 | .304 | .334 | .639 | 70.9 | 73.9 | .289 | 0.1 |
| 1961 | 114 | 404 | 380 | 45 | 92 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 36 | 13 | 43 | 3 | 2 | .242 | .271 | .355 | .626 | 57.9 | 63.4 | .281 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956-07-28 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1961-09-29 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1958-06-11 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 1952-06-18 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1956-07-30 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-04-19 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1950-04-25 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1950-05-17 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1950-05-30 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1950-06-10 | BAL @ NYY 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.