Billy Milligan
Philadelphia Athletics 1901; New York Giants 1904
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 7 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .375 | .667 | 1.042 | 162.4 | 179.8 | .464 | 0.4 |
| 1904 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .273 | .222 | .495 | 66.2 | 52.8 | .264 | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 43 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 33.0 | 4.36 | 1.727 | 1.36 | 4.46 | 117.6 | 86.9 | 0.4 |
| 1904 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 36 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 25.0 | 5.40 | 1.600 | 2.16 | 3.49 | 127.6 | 50.7 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-04-30 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1901-06-26 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1904-05-15 | SF @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1901-06-29 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1901-07-01 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-06-26 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 8.2 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| 1904-05-10 | SF @ STL Gameday | 7.0 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 1904-05-03 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 8.0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 1901-05-07 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 6.0 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 1904-05-15 | SF @ CIN Gameday | 6.0 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 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.