MLB / Players

Billy Rogell

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 163 lb

BornNovember 24, 1904 · Springfield, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1925

Final gameAugust 25, 1940

Seasons14 (1925–1940)

Boston Red Sox 1925; Boston Red Sox 1927–1928; Detroit Tigers 1930–1939; Chicago Cubs 1940

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified batters

136

51.2

597

63.6

501

52.9

54.5

130

34.7

33.1

73.6

20.7

RBI

37.2

85.1

43.8

77.7

28.1

.259

17.4

OBP

.373

65.3

SLG

.353

12.4

OPS

.727

30.6

wRC+

83.0

15.7

OPS+

78.5

10.7

wOBA

.349

38.8

sWAR

1.2

36.4

of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

86.9

18.8

OPS+

85.4

16.3

sWAR

15.1

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
1925	58	188	169	12	33	5	1	0	17	11	17	0	3	.195	.244	.237	.481	17.9	21.6	.233	-1.2
1927	82	236	207	35	55	14	6	2	28	24	28	3	1	.266	.342	.420	.762	95.9	97.2	.354	0.7
1928	102	339	296	33	69	10	4	0	29	22	47	2	6	.233	.295	.294	.589	55.1	55.5	.281	-0.4
1930	54	165	144	20	24	4	2	0	9	15	23	1	2	.167	.250	.222	.472	22.3	19.3	.230	-0.9
1931	48	211	185	21	56	12	3	2	24	24	17	8	8	.303	.383	.432	.815	112.1	110.9	.378	1.2
1932	144	613	554	88	150	29	6	9	61	50	38	14	6	.271	.332	.394	.726	87.0	87.7	.334	1.6
1933	155	675	587	67	173	42	11	0	57	79	33	6	9	.295	.381	.404	.785	109.9	107.6	.369	3.8
1934	154	679	592	114	175	32	8	3	100	74	36	13	3	.296	.374	.392	.766	101.3	99.5	.361	3.0
1935	150	648	560	88	154	23	11	6	71	80	29	3	6	.275	.367	.388	.754	101.6	99.4	.356	2.9
1936	146	667	585	85	160	27	5	6	68	73	41	14	10	.274	.357	.368	.725	82.1	79.7	.342	1.2
1937	146	632	536	85	148	30	7	8	64	83	48	5	5	.276	.376	.403	.779	98.4	95.7	.364	2.6
1938	136	597	501	76	130	22	8	3	55	86	37	9	2	.259	.373	.353	.727	83.0	78.5	.349	1.2
1939	74	206	174	24	40	6	3	2	23	26	14	3	1	.230	.330	.333	.663	68.3	66.2	.316	0.1
1940	33	63	59	7	8	0	0	1	3	2	8	1	0	.136	.164	.186	.350	-14.1	-2.6	.164	-0.6

Career totals

1,482

5,919

5,149

755

1,375

256

331st-most career 3B

RBI

609

649

452nd-most career BB

416

.2670

OBP

.3514

SLG

.3704

OPS

.7218

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
1932-08-17	DET @ NYY Gameday	4	2	4	0	1	1	1	0	9
1932-05-23	BAL @ DET Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	4	0	8
1935-05-28	DET @ NYY Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	4	1	8
1931-08-12	ATH @ DET Gameday	6	2	4	1	1	0	1	0	7
1933-08-29	NYY @ DET Gameday	6	2	4	1	1	0	1	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1925-04-14	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1925-04-15	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1925-04-16	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1925-04-17	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1925-04-18	BOS @ 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.