Billy Moran

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornNovember 27, 1933 · Montgomery, AL, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1958

Final gameSeptember 28, 1965

Seasons7 (1958–1965)

Cleveland Indians 1958–1959; Los Angeles Angels 1961–1963; Cleveland Indians 1964; Los Angeles Angels 1964; Cleveland Indians 1965

Percentile snapshot

1963 season — qualified batters

153

65.3

648

74.3

597

79.2

42.6

164

76.2

80.2

56.4

21.8

RBI

52.5

12.9

77.2

11.9

74.3

.275

66.3

OBP

.310

33.7

SLG

.375

36.6

OPS

.686

31.7

wRC+

95.3

33.7

OPS+

96.9

35.6

wOBA

.308

28.7

sWAR

2.1

41.6

of 102 qualified 1963 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.6

75.8

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
1958	115	279	257	26	58	11	0	1	18	13	23	3	2	.226	.262	.280	.542	45.6	51.2	.250	-0.6
1959	11	17	17	1	5	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	.294	.294	.294	.588	61.4	65.3	.270	0.0
1961	54	198	173	17	45	7	1	2	22	17	16	0	0	.260	.328	.347	.675	76.3	76.8	.311	0.2
1962	160	721	659	90	186	25	3	17	74	39	80	5	1	.282	.324	.407	.731	93.1	94.3	.328	2.0
1963	153	648	597	67	164	29	5	7	65	31	57	1	1	.275	.310	.375	.686	95.3	96.9	.308	2.1
1964	119	394	349	40	84	16	1	1	21	31	36	1	4	.241	.304	.301	.605	70.9	73.2	.278	0.1
1965	22	27	24	1	3	0	0	0	0	2	5	0	0	.125	.222	.125	.347	2.3	1.6	.184	-0.2

Career totals

634

2,284

2,076

242

545

RBI

202

133

218

.2625

OBP

.3080

SLG

.3550

OPS

.6630

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
1962-06-15	LAA @ CWS Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	1	1	0	9
1963-07-20	DET @ LAA Gameday	4	4	4	2	1	0	2	0	8
1962-08-23	NYY @ LAA Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	3	1	8
1962-06-10	ATH @ LAA Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	6	1	7
1962-06-14	MIN @ LAA Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	1	2	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1958-09-23	CLE @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1958-09-24	CLE @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-05-26	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-05-27	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-19	LAA @ ATH 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

1× 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.