Billy Sample
Texas Rangers 1978–1984; New York Yankees 1985; Atlanta Braves 1986
Percentile snapshot
1984 season — qualified batters
of 120 qualified 1984 batters (min 499 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 8 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .467 | .467 | .600 | 1.067 | 210.7 | 199.9 | .483 | 0.2 |
| 1979 | 128 | 377 | 325 | 60 | 95 | 21 | 2 | 5 | 35 | 37 | 28 | 8 | 6 | .292 | .365 | .415 | .781 | 115.3 | 112.3 | .356 | 1.3 |
| 1980 | 99 | 234 | 204 | 29 | 53 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 8 | 5 | .260 | .335 | .368 | .702 | 96.3 | 95.2 | .323 | 0.3 |
| 1981 | 66 | 260 | 230 | 36 | 65 | 16 | 0 | 3 | 25 | 17 | 21 | 4 | 1 | .283 | .346 | .391 | .738 | 119.0 | 117.2 | .342 | 1.2 |
| 1982 | 97 | 398 | 360 | 56 | 94 | 14 | 2 | 10 | 29 | 27 | 35 | 10 | 2 | .261 | .318 | .394 | .712 | 100.6 | 99.2 | .323 | 1.0 |
| 1983 | 147 | 611 | 554 | 80 | 152 | 28 | 3 | 12 | 57 | 44 | 46 | 44 | 8 | .274 | .331 | .401 | .732 | 104.1 | 103.1 | .331 | 1.7 |
| 1984 | 130 | 528 | 489 | 67 | 121 | 20 | 2 | 5 | 33 | 29 | 46 | 18 | 6 | .247 | .286 | .327 | .613 | 65.1 | 67.9 | .279 | -0.7 |
| 1985 | 59 | 154 | 139 | 18 | 40 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 1 | .288 | .336 | .345 | .681 | 92.0 | 90.2 | .311 | 0.1 |
| 1986 | 92 | 221 | 200 | 23 | 57 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 14 | 26 | 4 | 2 | .285 | .338 | .430 | .768 | 106.4 | 105.1 | .349 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983-08-03 | BOS @ TEX Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1982-05-30 | KC @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 1983-09-30 | LAA @ TEX Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1980-08-24 | MIL @ TEX Gameday | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1983-05-14 | BAL @ TEX Gameday | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
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.